Blog Day 147 - 149 Fri 30th September - Sun 2nd October 2011 The next three days in Townsville provide us with some much needed time to catch up on this blog. Which is exactly what we do! On the Friday we pretty much spent the whole day at the house writing the blog and watching movies (Wolf Creek was one of them, not sure that was a good idea!). At 5pm we ventured into the city to a bar called The Cactus Saloon. Here we parked ourselves in the top floor at...

Blog Day 146 Thurs 29th September 2011 After sleeping in the camper for a week we really appreciate a bed where we can stretch out. So we don't rise out of it until around half past 9. Jamieson and Jackie are both out at work, however Jess, their other housemate, is home. We spend the morning mostly chatting to her about the usual stuff, our travels, what we all do, where we are all going etc etc. She is another laid back Aussie who just lets us make ourselves...

Blog Day 145 Wed 28th September 2011 This morning we are woken up by a very rare natural occurrence in Australia ………………. RAIN. We were under the impression that such a thing didn't happen in this country. Turns out we were wrong. We sit for a while and watch the other campers going about their morning business as we sit and write a little shopping list. It doesn't take long to pack things away and we are back on the highway heading for Townsville. ...