Travel in Australia
Abandoned or Reused
For the last three days we have been back in Victoria’s central gold fields region having a break after Christmas. I have written about this area before in previous posts – https://www.wilsons.id.au/more-exploration-around-creswick/ On this visit, we have noticed many old buildings that have been abandoned or now serve a different purpose. Some of these date […]
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Avenues of Honour
An Avenue of Honour is a memorial road or pathway lined with trees, planted to commemorate individuals, especially soldiers, who served in wars or conflicts. This tradition was popular in Australia and New Zealand, symbolising the remembrance of those who served and, in many cases, those who died. Although significant after World War One, this […]
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Our Darwin Tour – A Retrospective
We have been home from Darwin for a day and after catching up with things around the house, it’s time to look back on our trip and review our travels. I returned our rental car yesterday and its information screen gave me some interesting details. A direct road trip from Darwin to Melbourne via Jabiru […]
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Back in Victoria
Our last day in Adelaide gave us a rest from driving. We did a little essential shopping where we caught up with a group of soldiers raising money for Legacy. The corporal in charge was an old timer in the Corps of Transport and we had a long chat about various units that I knew […]
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Adelaide – Our First Large City and Rain
The distance between Coober Pedy and our next stop in Port Augusta was a little over 500 kms. You may ask what is there to see along the way? The answer is (apart from two roadhouses and an artificial town) absolutely nothing! The landscape changes slightly from open desert plains to grey saltbush. After a […]
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Coober Pedy – Its a Gem, But Its Also a Remote, Dusty, Mining Town
We planned a two-night stay in Coober Pedy to give us time to see its attractions and something of life in the town. We had actually seen most of it by lunchtime. It’s very remote – the nearest city of Alice Springs is 680 kilometres to the north, and Port Augusta to the south is […]
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Coober Pedy -A Gem of a Town
We have enjoyed the lower temperatures of the last few days (26C) although the next few days are forecast to get hot again. We went out to dinner at the Big Winch Cafe in Coober Pedy tonight and we had to ask them to turn their cooler off as it was making us feel very […]
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Paris at the Bendigo Gallery
We have just spent a few days in Bendigo (Victoria’s third largest regional city) where there is still a strong history of gold mining. We had a sunmptuous dinner at our favourite regional restaurant (The Woodhouse) with its fine steak meals as well as a few hours at the Bendigo Gallery which is one of […]
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Our Last Few Days in Perth
We returned home last night on a Qantas flight that arrived into Melbourne at around midnight. Other than Jill’s mobility scooter being taken to the baggage carousel rather than being delivered to the door of the plane, everything went well with this flight. We were exceptionally pleased by the service and friendliness of the Qantas […]
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Our Activities with our Family in Perth
We have been busy over the weekend doing a number of things with our family in Perth. Saturday saw us going into the Perth Hills to visit a Cidery and enjoy a nice lunch at Core Cider’s Bistro. We had arranged to meet everyone there but we overestimated the amount of travel time that we […]
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We’re Visiting our Family in Perth
We arrived in Perth on a late night flight last Wednesday (April 3). On the last occasion that we were here it was just after Covid and the airlines and travel businesses were in disarray with a severe shortage of people. It took around three hours for our baggage to arrive after that flight landed. […]
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Our Final Day in Tassie
Yesterday, we only had a short trip of less than 100 kilometres from Launceston to Devonport where we would catch the ferry back to the mainland. We took advantage of the time that would have on this short driving day to see some last minute sights and visit some friends. My old mate Leon or […]
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