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JocknNik · JocknNik

Number two on our must-do list was a ride on the heritage Pichi Richi Railway. If you are in the vicinity of Port Augusta, we highly recommend this day trip, with its tie-in lunch served at one of the pubs in Quorn at outward journey's end. It's a distance of about 40 km from the Port to little town of Quorn....

Dougwe · Dougwe

G'day, welcome to September, that will put a spring in ya step, but as this is my August update best go back to the start of said month.It all started with a meet up with some very nice GN's I had the pleasure of meeting earlier this year when I left Greens Lake, north central VIC. Paul and Lynda. Paul rang a f...

JocknNik · JocknNik

Port Augusta is a town of contrasts. There is the waterway near the top end of Spencer Gulf making the place that much more attractive. Then as soon as you're heading out of town, you're into semi arid surrounds that seem to be another world. If you choose to drive up and over the ranges nearby, you're pre...

Daveo85 · Daveo85

Here is a blog update from us the you all Cooktown Hope you all enjoy Dave

JocknNik · JocknNik

Port Augusta.. part A. Have to admit, Port Augusta captivated us. We intended to stay 4 days to look around and jump onto the Pichi Richi Railway out to Quorn. That was number two on your correspondent's 'must do' list. I'd been to Pt Augusta twice before, first time I was 7 y.o. then at 11 when I passed thr...

aussie_paul · aussie_paul

Hi everyone in the group. (Happy Campers with Disabilities)We were able to sneak a few days away from July 18th. We just needed to veg out. First day saw us arrive 80km north from Ballarat to Teddington Reservoir. A good chance to try out our satellite vast tv again, which worked well. Unfortunately in...

JocknNik · JocknNik

My must-do list for our journey included visiting the 'Whyalla' ship memorial, saved and placed on the hard by the City Council with quite a lot of difficulty, well away from the water in that town. Scratch number 1 off the list.. and well worth the stop-over! HMAS Whyalla was one of 60 Bathurst-class A...

Dougwe · Dougwe

Wooooo, slow down a bit will ya. I can't keep up with these months going so quick, one just starts and next I know it's finished. Oh well, time for another read so why not read my July 2017 update. Lets go. First up, you might remember last month I started by saying I didn't have much to talk about but was told...

Daveo85 · Daveo85

Don't post every month, don't wish to bore people too much. Blog of week Newletter Dave

Hey Jim · Hey Jim

We were up early again as our journey is a long one (Fantastic noodles and a cupper for Breakie), especially not having the van with us. I love driving across the Nullarbor ( Lambie not, with out the van.) we stop often for a cupper and extra's( pit stop). We stayed at Ecula on the forward trip, and for what...

JocknNik · JocknNik

Cheers to Pt Lincoln, we're heading nor'east along the Spencer Gulf coast, next stop Whyalla. We'd take a couple of whistle stops along the way, Tumby Bay particularly, after a mate said, "It's a beautiful spot". He'd spent a day or two there, making use of the tiny caravan park-up at the CWA facil...

Cuppa · Cuppa

Hi folks, Some here may know of myself & wife, MrsTea, from other forums. Im only an occasional visitor here, so most wont know me. We have recently commenced our dream of becoming full time nomads after our experience 7 years ago of travelling around the country for an 18 month stint. Im posting...

Hey Jim · Hey Jim

We / I love stopping over in Leinster, Its like following the ants to the food sauce. The town was built to accommodate the mining of Nickel and gold. You don't spend the kind of coin, unless the resource is there. A full air strip for the FIFO crews. Police paid for by BHP. After the end of the mining boom T...

Hey Jim · Hey Jim

Late start after yesterdays happenings and Lambies Birthday today. We are traveling 432km to Leinster with a stop in Mt Magnet to do our 5000km oil/filter change and lite lunch. As we always eat in Leinster in the dry mess for $20 a piece. Sundays in nowhere. Not a sole all the way to Mt Magnet. We left at 1...

Hey Jim · Hey Jim

Well we made the call to pack up 2 weeks early and set a course that would take us home east to Sydney. After 10 weeks living under canvas for 10 weeks and sleeping on Euro air beds (Bad Decision) on our part. Both of us have suffered bad hips and backs from doing so. The logistics of cleaning up and repacking...

Hey Jim · Hey Jim

Back on the water we are fishing just the two of us and its sail fish time. The boat is in the water and underway by 6.30am as the dame winds will be up again by 10am. We clear North passage and all the weed floating in the water (dying from the hot water temps) makes towing teasers (big fish attractors and Bi...

Hey Jim · Hey Jim

Lets continue our trip. Our Adelaide mates arrived for the next 6 weeks to make up our full crew of four. First up on the wish list were Spanish Mackerel, so first trip we got one and a half fish to the boat as we again got eaten. We decided to fish inside and try for Spangled Emporia.Every fish we hooked was u...

JocknNik · JocknNik

So, what do you do to pass the time at Port Lincoln? Why, visit the Glen Forest Tourist Park of course! A fairly short drive into the countryside not too far from town, the park is a rural property that's been converted to an interesting animal haven where you are given a small bag of feed and sent off t...

JocknNik · JocknNik

On 29th of June 1959, a fishing boat, the 'Wangaree', was wrecked when a pot line tangled around the propeller and the vessel was swept onto the rocky coast nearby. Two of the crew, skipper Eric Tapley and his son Barry, survived. But young crewmember, Leo Cummings, 23, was lost. A monument to Leo...

Dunmowin · Dunmowin

Hi all, back from Indonesia, caught up with the washing, downloading photos and compiling notes. Happy reading. Sorry for its size, more photos than reading.....

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	Newbies heading east & back 9 (Preview) Number two on our must-do list was a ride on the heritage Pichi Richi Railway. If you are in the vicinity of Port Augusta, we highly recommend this day trip, with its tie-in lunch served at one of the pubs in Quorn at outward journey's end. It's a distance of about 40 km from the Port to little town of Quorn....	JocknNik	9	2747	08:51 PM Sep 12, 2017 by JocknNik
	AUGUST 2017 UPDATE (Preview) G'day, welcome to September, that will put a spring in ya step, but as this is my August update best go back to the start of said month.It all started with a meet up with some very nice GN's I had the pleasure of meeting earlier this year when I left Greens Lake, north central VIC. Paul and Lynda. Paul rang a f...	Dougwe	13	3756	08:28 PM Sep 17, 2017 by Cruising Cruze
	Newbies heading east & back 8b (Preview) Port Augusta is a town of contrasts. There is the waterway near the top end of Spencer Gulf making the place that much more attractive. Then as soon as you're heading out of town, you're into semi arid surrounds that seem to be another world. If you choose to drive up and over the ranges nearby, you're pre...	JocknNik	5	2388	02:10 AM Sep 3, 2017 by JocknNik
	Our Blog from Cooktown (Preview) Here is a blog update from us the you all Cooktown Hope you all enjoy Dave	Daveo85	4	1986	09:54 PM Aug 27, 2017 by Dunmowin
	Newbies heading east & back 8a (Preview) Port Augusta.. part A. Have to admit, Port Augusta captivated us. We intended to stay 4 days to look around and jump onto the Pichi Richi Railway out to Quorn. That was number two on your correspondent's 'must do' list. I'd been to Pt Augusta twice before, first time I was 7 y.o. then at 11 when I passed thr...	JocknNik	5	1909	08:28 PM Aug 27, 2017 by JocknNik
	Happy Campers with Disabilities... (Preview) Hi everyone in the group. (Happy Campers with Disabilities)We were able to sneak a few days away from July 18th. We just needed to veg out. First day saw us arrive 80km north from Ballarat to Teddington Reservoir. A good chance to try out our satellite vast tv again, which worked well. Unfortunately in...	aussie_paul	10	3528	08:53 PM Oct 13, 2017 by Dunmowin
	Newbies heading east & back 7 (Preview) My must-do list for our journey included visiting the 'Whyalla' ship memorial, saved and placed on the hard by the City Council with quite a lot of difficulty, well away from the water in that town. Scratch number 1 off the list.. and well worth the stop-over! HMAS Whyalla was one of 60 Bathurst-class A...	JocknNik	7	1920	10:03 PM Oct 7, 2017 by Dunmowin
	JULY 2017 UPDATE (Preview) Wooooo, slow down a bit will ya. I can't keep up with these months going so quick, one just starts and next I know it's finished. Oh well, time for another read so why not read my July 2017 update. Lets go. First up, you might remember last month I started by saying I didn't have much to talk about but was told...	Dougwe	9	2504	08:50 AM Aug 15, 2017 by Woody n Sue
	RE: Our Blog (Preview) Don't post every month, don't wish to bore people too much. Blog of week Newletter Dave	Daveo85	4	3111	11:52 AM Oct 5, 2017 by Daveo85
	Our 2017 trip to Exmouth Tow our 6mtr boat Part 12 (Preview) We were up early again as our journey is a long one (Fantastic noodles and a cupper for Breakie), especially not having the van with us. I love driving across the Nullarbor ( Lambie not, with out the van.) we stop often for a cupper and extra's( pit stop). We stayed at Ecula on the forward trip, and for what...	Hey Jim	4	2023	08:56 PM Oct 18, 2017 by Ger08
	Newbies heading east & back 6 (Preview) Cheers to Pt Lincoln, we're heading nor'east along the Spencer Gulf coast, next stop Whyalla. We'd take a couple of whistle stops along the way, Tumby Bay particularly, after a mate said, "It's a beautiful spot". He'd spent a day or two there, making use of the tiny caravan park-up at the CWA facil...	JocknNik	4	2103	01:50 PM Jul 25, 2017 by JocknNik
	Cuppa & MrsTea’s new blog - ‘A Nomadic Life - An Australian Travel blog’. (Preview) Hi folks, Some here may know of myself & wife, MrsTea, from other forums. Im only an occasional visitor here, so most wont know me. We have recently commenced our dream of becoming full time nomads after our experience 7 years ago of travelling around the country for an 18 month stint. Im posting...	Cuppa	12	3954	08:29 AM Jan 18, 2018 by Cuppa
	Our 2017 trip to Exmouth towing our 6mtr boat PART 11 (Preview) We / I love stopping over in Leinster, Its like following the ants to the food sauce. The town was built to accommodate the mining of Nickel and gold. You don't spend the kind of coin, unless the resource is there. A full air strip for the FIFO crews. Police paid for by BHP. After the end of the mining boom T...	Hey Jim	1	1610	01:46 PM Jul 25, 2017 by JocknNik
	Our 2017 trip to Exmouth towing out 6mtr boat PART 10 (Preview) Late start after yesterdays happenings and Lambies Birthday today. We are traveling 432km to Leinster with a stop in Mt Magnet to do our 5000km oil/filter change and lite lunch. As we always eat in Leinster in the dry mess for $20 a piece. Sundays in nowhere. Not a sole all the way to Mt Magnet. We left at 1...	Hey Jim	2	1321	01:41 PM Jul 25, 2017 by JocknNik
	Our 2017 trip to Exmouth WA towing our 6mtr boat PART 9 (Preview) Well we made the call to pack up 2 weeks early and set a course that would take us home east to Sydney. After 10 weeks living under canvas for 10 weeks and sleeping on Euro air beds (Bad Decision) on our part. Both of us have suffered bad hips and backs from doing so. The logistics of cleaning up and repacking...	Hey Jim	2	1802	01:45 PM Jul 25, 2017 by JocknNik
	Our trip to Exmouth 2017 towing the 6mtr boat Part 8 (Preview) Back on the water we are fishing just the two of us and its sail fish time. The boat is in the water and underway by 6.30am as the dame winds will be up again by 10am. We clear North passage and all the weed floating in the water (dying from the hot water temps) makes towing teasers (big fish attractors and Bi...	Hey Jim	1	1456	02:16 AM Jul 16, 2017 by JocknNik
	Our trip to Exmouth 2017 towing our 6mtr boat PART 7 (Preview) Lets continue our trip. Our Adelaide mates arrived for the next 6 weeks to make up our full crew of four. First up on the wish list were Spanish Mackerel, so first trip we got one and a half fish to the boat as we again got eaten. We decided to fish inside and try for Spangled Emporia.Every fish we hooked was u...	Hey Jim	1	1077	02:08 AM Jul 16, 2017 by JocknNik
	Newbies heading east & back 5+ (Preview) So, what do you do to pass the time at Port Lincoln? Why, visit the Glen Forest Tourist Park of course! A fairly short drive into the countryside not too far from town, the park is a rural property that's been converted to an interesting animal haven where you are given a small bag of feed and sent off t...	JocknNik	3	1604	07:34 PM Jul 13, 2017 by Felicia
	Newbies heading east & back 5 (Preview) On 29th of June 1959, a fishing boat, the 'Wangaree', was wrecked when a pot line tangled around the propeller and the vessel was swept onto the rocky coast nearby. Two of the crew, skipper Eric Tapley and his son Barry, survived. But young crewmember, Leo Cummings, 23, was lost. A monument to Leo...	JocknNik	5	1603	08:41 PM Sep 12, 2017 by Dunmowin
	Eating our way around Australia - July 2017 (Preview) Hi all, back from Indonesia, caught up with the washing, downloading photos and compiling notes. Happy reading. Sorry for its size, more photos than reading.....	Dunmowin	8	1429	08:45 PM Jul 15, 2017 by Dunmowin
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