Travelling Australia

We are now back where we started from. Lake Clarendon, Queensland.  We left our spot at Wandoan and decided to head straight back to here. You just know when it’s time to come home, and today was it.  It’s been such a great 46 days travelling. We have been to so many lovely places and enjoyed it all.  Ed and I have decided that we’ve both had enough of Queensland. We’ve really seen all of the Coast, many times…..and now we’ve been to the Outback.  We love them both…..but it’s time to see more of Australia.  So back home to Tweed for a while to see our family and for Ed to catch up up with bowls mates…..then off to Mildura to see more family. Love to all and thanks for coming along for the ride ❤️❤️ Stay safe 🦋🦋 Left 4th of June………Home 20th of July  **** we drove 3,000 km ****diesel cost $1,132 ****accomodation $327 Memories……Priceless 🥰🥰

Wandoan is a lovely town in the Western Downs Region. It was formerly known as Juandah. In 1926, it was renamed Wandoan to avoid confusion with Jundah….near Longreach.  Population is 566…..with the median age of people being 38 years old! (You’d have to be young to work on this land) Travelling here through the bush, there were a lot of dead kangaroos (which isn’t unusual ) but there were loads of huge black bores dead on the road. Hate to hit one of those big buggers! There is no TV reception here, so every man and their dog has a satellite dish.🤣🤣 (Last night we stayed at the small town of Taroom….but they had no TV and no Internet!! 😳😳) Danny Deckchair made another appearance…..you kids will know what I’m talking about 🤣🤣🤣🙄 There is no rail service here,  so the old train station now houses the tourist info centre.  It’s a very interesting town.  Good doggie.. So clever. All from scraps…and old tools. The towns water supply In 1965, reticulated water (safe...

Theodore has a population of 438 people in its small, but pretty town. We are staying at the Showgrounds for a couple of days. You can camp down by the Dawson River, but it doesn’t hold many vans and it was way too busy. We don’t like being crammed in anywhere thanks. 😊 There’s quite a few vans in here, but it’s absolutely huge, so we are not on top  of one another.   We are not on power, but that’s ok, we have plenty of water on tap… and at $15 @ night, we are thankful for that. The people who want power are in the “sardine section”😊  There is only a small IGA grocery store, but it has everything that’s needed and their prices are really reasonable.  The diesel is cheaper here at $2.29 which is really reasonable out this way.  (That statement sounds stupid when you consider how much we were paying this time last year!😳) We love to walk around these small towns as this is how you come across so many quirky things.  This house was amazing. There isn’t an ...

We left Duaringa this morning. We travelled east along the Capricorn Highway, along with hundreds of other caravaners and mine trucks.  I was glad to turn off to Dululu and along the  quieter Leichhardt Highway. Well it seemed to be quieter until all the escort cars coming towards me waved me off the highway on to the side of the road! There were so many massive mining machines  and huge trucks carrying cotton, which take  up most of the road! Anyway we finally reached the small town of Banana.  The diesel was cheap at $2.29 @ litre…..$160 into the economy of Banana ……thanks for visiting.  🤣🤣🤑🤑🤑 Banana isn’t known for its Bananas….🌴🌴🍌🍌 they don’t grow here. Banana was named after this beautiful beast…  This big Banana coloured bullock was the favourite lead bullock of the team way back yonder.  Everyone loved him, and when he died, they buried him at the local creek gully which they named “Banana’s Gully” then the named the town after him...

After staying two days at Dingo, we decided we would move on. We thought the wind may have settled down a bit today, but of course…it was still blowing…so off we went to tackle it.  Luckily for us we had a great wind break all along as it was quite thick bush. 😊 So a big day driving……all of 40km 🤣…we arrived at Duaringa.  We have been here a few times before, but it’s one of our favourite camp spots.  There’s a population of 262 people.  The Dawson River is close by, and supplies Duaringa’s town water. The Dawson and MacKenzie River both join up north-east of Duaringa to form the Fitzroy River, which eventually flows through the city of Rockhampton.  A mural depicting the three rivers is painted on the back of the Duaringa Historical & Info Centre, facing the Capricorn Highway….. Also at the Info centre is a free WiFi point for all the travellers that need to charge, or need free WiFi which is a great idea.  I remember many years ago we were staying h...