Packing up and leaving the Three-Ways was something we had all been looking forward to since completing our little holiday back to home. It was made all the more enjoyable by grinning like an idiot every time I saw a NSW number plate or got a comment from fellow travellers about the resounding victory we had witnessed the night before. That's right the mighty maroons had smashed the blues and enabled all us travelling cane toads to hold our heads high for yet...

I am sitting down to write this next, no doubt thrilling and inspiring, instalment of our 2011 tour of OZ with many, many thoughts and visions racing through my mind. Since last time my two uncoordinated fingers were madly tapping this keyboard we have covered many more miles, (one state to the next and back!) Seen some of the top ends most famous and wild attractions as well attended a wedding and had going away drinks for a family member. So to tell you al...

Leaving Coober Pedy early on a Friday morning, we both felt glad to be moving once again after nearly a full week spent in the area. What felt like a 30Kn tail-wind made the normal parachute effect of the caravan feel more like the downwind spinnaker run on "Wild Oats", as we comfortably cruised northward toward our first rest stop of the day Cadney Homestead. Being only 150 (wind assisted!) kilometres north we made it in time for an early smoko and a look ar...

Rolling into Coober Pedy (CP) is an experience probably unmatched by any other town in Australia, let alone the world! Piles of white, orange and red coloured overburden, big and small dominate the previously stark, barren flatlands of the last couple of hundred, pretty boring kilometres. You notice the small treeless hills that are in the town have front doors and fences around them, giving our first glimpse of the underground world, this small mining town i...

Pulling into the West Beach Big 4 on the holiday strip of Adelaide, Glenelg, we were struck by two things almost immediately. #1 was what a massive and very well equipped holiday park it was and #2 yes you do get what you pay for, and in this case it was lots! Our most expensive park stay yet ( not by a lot) although when you consider all the extras on offer for old and young alike it buys a lot of relaxed time for all, which is what we all look for when on ou...