Month: November 2017

The amenities at Yulara were smaller than Erldunda but were clean and we enjoyed high pressure showers. Despite being in a resort, we enjoyed a quiet night with the fiery sunset still lingering, having only gained a few neighbours during our walk. I did some research and decided we would walk Kata Tjuta the following […]

The road headed north out of Coober Pedy was fairly uneventful, bitumen in perfect condition with little deviation, it’s the kind that you can engage cruise control and try and take in the landscape, watching for wildlife. Not long and we had escaped the white anthills. We actually begun to encounter more traffic, nothing by […]

Need a welder in Centralia on Finke Friday? <insert a witty idiom of improbability here> Best settle for a big breakfast and even bigger coffee at the Roadhouse for a rethink. Our host at Riba’s recommended a workshop, but one of their welders had left for Port Augusta, the other for Finke. Strike one. They […]

Arriving at Coober Pedy for the first time was a mixture of surreality and anxiety. It felt like no other small outback town we had visited, every building had a temporary feel but the flaked paint and old gardens told us the they were temporarily located right where they were, in perpetuity. There were just […]

We had it in our mind we should check out Port Augusta, the name suggesting authority maybe? So that’s where we headed.  As it happened, we did a load of washing, bought some groceries and kept driving. Now keen to leave the bigger towns in the rearview. Our heading now north, I was feeling the […]

Leaving Melbourne, we headed west. No particular destination although of the three westerly routes, we decided on Ballarat. A beautiful town, we had lunch and walked the streets, stretching our legs. We also picked up a windup hose for filling our tanks and jerry can. On a reel and flat like tape – it took […]

As a trip report goes, this will likely be filled with hindsight and a different blend of optimism then felt on the road. Being our most recent tour, a word I would choose to describe a planned circuit over the course of several weeks. Considering the how the trip panned out, I figured this one […]