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Travel Blogs by members
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Do you have a blog you'd like to share? Please include links to your blogs (or new posts) in this string. Disclaimer: please note that the Grey Nomads forum does not have any input or control over the content of remotely hosted blogs.
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Cuppa & MrsTea's Blog - Kimberley Wet Season
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After a brief but unexpected hiatus I am back to posting on our blog. The Wet Season has commenced in style! Lots to read, lots of pics. http://cuppa500.com/Blog/2019/01/08/first-rain/
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DECEMBER 2018 UPDATE
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Thunder down under! Welcome to my December update, sit back and read away. It won't take long at all this month.I might start off with a couple of places I visited while still in Young NSW that I didn't mention last update. First was Eugowra Slightly North West of Young, this is a lovely...
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Cuppa & MrsTea’s Blog - Kimberley Wet season.
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Just in case anyone is wondering .... we havent been washed away by wet season floods or eaten by crocs. However the blog is on temporary hold as my laptop died. Estimated date to get a replacement is 2nd week of January. Last night we had our first rain of the season which really was quite an exciting even...
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A Short Trip To Close The Year Out With
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We decided to end the year with a short trip fairly close to home. During the year we'd bid on a travel auction 10 night stay for a powered site at Venus Bay CP. Usually $38/nt, we successfully bid at $205 for the 10 night stay. We don't do many travel auctions because we don't stay in CP's very often. This wa...
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NOVEMBER 2018 UPDATE
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A cow of a job.Not a big update this one. Not again, I hear you say down the back, yep, another month done and dusted so make that cuppa and sit back and read away. Oh! Alright then, something stronger if you must :)I might start with the weather this month as the month started with thunderstorms, lightni...
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Cuppa & MrsTea's Blog - To the Kimberley via the 'back roads
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New Post. Photos & few words this time. http://cuppa500.com/Blog/2018/11/25/low-tide/
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Cuppa & MrsTea's Blog - To the Kimberley via the 'back roads'.
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A new post from the same place. Snakes, frogs & sweat rash do paradise make! https://wp.me/p8PHoJ-E3
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Cairns/Atherton Tableland Trip - October/November 2018
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Every year we like to do a 3 week fly/hire car trip to a destination far away from our base in Melbourne. It makes a nice change from towing our caravan, camper trailer or boat around. The past 2 years we've flown up to Darwin & travelled through Kakadu/Adelaide River/Pine Creek/Katherine. This ye...
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walkerville foreshore camping reserve
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My partner and i had booked a powered site at the walkerville foreshore caravan park and due to a serious tyre blowout causing wheel and brake damage, we had to cancel at the last minute, telling the lovely lady there that if we could get a new wheel down in 2 days that we would make the last day,to no avail,...
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Recalling my visit to Ravenswood 2018
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Gday... Hope this is interesting to some. Cheers - John
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OCTOBER 2018 UPDATE
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Warn out! Howdy and welcome to my October update, sit back with a cuppa or something stronger and read away.October started with a move of camp. Garry and Roxanne were back from there trip overseas and had a great time. After chatting with them it was decided I would stay and catch up and continue enjoy...
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Outback NSW Trip - Part 5 (final)
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On our way down the 265km stretch of the Silver City Hwy from Broken Hill down to Wentworth we saw the new pipeline adjacent to the road that provides water from the Murray River to Broken Hill. The line runs beside the Western side of the road all the way. Broken Hills water supply used to come from the Men...
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SEPTEMBER 2018 UPDATE
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Bucket List's. G'day and welcome to my September update. The month started with me departing the Holbrook NSW area that I talked about in my August Update. I hooked up the aluminium tent and headed slightly north again with Young NSW in my sights. After a mid-morning departure from Holbrook I heade...
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Outback NSW Trip - Part 4
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After leaving Little Topar Rest Area we drove 74kms into Broken Hill, this was our 3rd visit though we haven't actually stayed in Broken Hill itself as we're not too keen on large cities. Previously we've stayed at places like nearby Silverton for almost a week & spent a day in town looking at all t...
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New Member
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Hi everyone. We have just joined up and I thought I would share our blog site that we use for all our travels. We are looking forward to sharing and learning some new things from everyone. Blog: steveandmareeringrose.com Cheers Steve and Maree
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Outback NSW Trip - Part 3
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After a very enjoyable stay at Warrawong on the Darling we travelled 95kms North to White Cliffs opal fields. Warrawong billabong. Pelican flotilla. Brown treecreeper. Striated Pardalote. The caravan park was good value at $20/nt powered site, as expected not one blade of grass just bare red e...
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Outback NSW Trip - Part 2
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We were going to stay at Cobar CP for the usual 1 night but on the day we were supposed to leave high winds were forecast. It was a good decision to stay for an extra night as strong gusty winds caused huge dust storms over the whole area & driving visibility was low. There's now a new free camping opti...
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AUGUST 2018 UPDATE
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"I hate meeses to pieces" Yet another Month has finished and soon 2019 will be here.Welcome to my August 2018 update.I will start with the weather. Plenty of it while on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne in Southern VIC. August started where July left off, cold wet and windy, very windy an...
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Outback NSW Trip - Part 1
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. . We were very happy to escape Melbourne's cold windy Winter weather in mid-August. Travelling up the Northern Hwy via Heathcote, arriving in Echuca on the Murray River bathed in sunshine was a pleasant start to our 7 week trip. Crossing into NSW heading North along the Cobb Hw...
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