From Nindigully we were heading into Brisbane to catch up with friends. It has been a while since we have been there, but after calling it home for about 5 years before we moved to Melbourne it was all very familiar. We had planned that we would be able to unpack Matilda and do a… Read More »Big Cities and Bright Lights
After a quick pack up at Bourke we hit the road, the original plan was to head Moree as Karen was set on bathing in the thermal springs. Karen’s Dad was giving us a hard time about not going to Lightning Ridge, being an ex opal miner, so we decided that we would go to… Read More »Quirky Lightning Ridge
Packing up from Trilby had us heading further north towards Bourke. But first a quick stop in for a coffee and some breakfast. It wasn’t far to Louth so we thought we would stop and enjoy a tasty egg & bacon roll, and a hot coffee. We stopped at Shindy’s Inn, one of the character… Read More »Back of Bourke Via Louth
During our down time in the last couple of days we had mapped ourselves out a rough route to travel. Next stop on our horizon was to be another working station, this one was one we had connected with on Facebook. Asking around fellow travellers, many people has said that it was well worth the… Read More »Million Star Camping at Trilby Station
After seeing the Murrumbidgee Junction, it was time to see the two largest river systems in Australia join. We left the caravan park and took the River Road, which is a dirt road that follows the Murray River. After following the river for a while we hit the bitumen and went through the town of… Read More »Wentworth what a suprise
Looking at the map last night, we realised that we had passed the Murrumbidgee Junction. This is where the Murrumbidgee River flows into the Murray River. So we set about back tracking to go and visit. We looked on the map and realised that we needed to back track about 130km. So we set off… Read More »Murrumbidgee meets the Murray
After such a big day yesterday on the paddle steamer, we were in a need of a little R&R. So we had a leisurely drive around Moama, following the tourist drives and had a look at the many little tourist locations. First up we went to the Moama Horseshoe lagoon and had a wander over… Read More »Relaxing around Moama