Queensland 2022

Friday 9 September: Townsville – Magnetic Island After arriving at 11pm at our hotel in Townsville last night, we get up early to bring our car in for its 15K km service; this was originally scheduled for Monday at home, but as this was not going to be feasible with Continue Reading

Friday 19 August: Winton – start of Dinosaur trail Early start to get to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum around 25km out of town beautifully built on top of the ‘Jump up’ . Our visit consisted of 3 separate tours; we started with a walk to the Fossil Preparation Laboratory where we Continue Reading

This post is just to share the very very sad and completely unexpected news that Arno’s sister Annette suddenly passed away, and that we will be flying home to collect our passports and then on to the Netherlands to be with family and to say goodbye to Annette. Most of Continue Reading

Monday 15 August: Lake Dunn – Longreach We head back south to Barcaldine to pick up our route to go west. We gave the coffee in town a miss this time but spent a bit of time getting to know the importance of this town. It’s a pretty town, and Continue Reading

Saturday 13 August: Emerald – Lara Wetlands A (for us) very early start to cover a decent distance to Lara Wetlands. It started to rain about 20 minutes before we left and we left it behind as soon as we hit westbound Capricorn Highway. The Capricorn highway runs east – Continue Reading

Sunday 7 August: Roma – Carnarvon Gorge Beautiful weather today again, and the road was pretty easy, other than an increasing number of road trains (and the same plentiful caravans), traffic is still very light. We are happy to have our UHF radio to communicate with the big trucks so Continue Reading

Wednesday 3 August Goondiwindi – St George Woke up to rain, which had not been forecast but it stopped while packing up. We are now heading further west on the way to St George, while the McIntyre River (also the changed state border line) starts going south, so we will Continue Reading

Sunday 31 July Texas – Goondiwindi On the way out of Texas, we passed the free camp on the southern end of the town on the Damaresq River which forms the Queensland/New South Wales, border so once again we travel on the Bruxner Way in NSW on our way to Continue Reading

Wednesday 27 July – Woody Head to Bonaldo With the beautiful weather holding, and our next chosen destination only a few hours away, we didn’t leave Woody Head too early, and just enjoyed the view and sun. Once driving again we stopped for fuel and lunch in Casino, a nice Continue Reading

Saturday July 23 And we’re off again! This time we expect to make it to Queensland (only postponed twice from July 2020 and 2021) and likely to be our last trip in our lovely van. We expect to take delivery of the new (bigger) one mid September. On our way Continue Reading