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13 We stayed the night camped at the Caiguna roadhouse. We awoke to rumbling bellies (kidding) and made an early start; grocery stores in Esperance were singing a syren’s song to us. Just as a side note, diesel along the Nullarbor is $1.97 per litre a…

12 Guide books are somewhat creations of fiction, not that what they tell you is in a certain location isn’t there, but they make everything sound so “you have to see this!” that we find that we pull off to see things that really aren’t that impressiv…

10 Exploring Port Lincoln; well the population is 13,600 so it is not a big place and it only takes a short bit of time to see the foreshore or down town area. We have our lunch of lovely fresh oysters and head off to the Lincoln Park Nature Reserve; …

8 Our day starts off gently; cellar doors do not open until 10:00am, so we have a leisurely breakfast and conduct all of our internet business before heading out. We love the fact that we have good and reliable internet coverage for 99.9% of Australia…

6 Wine Tour Day! Woo Hoo! Darn, they only open at 10:00 am, what will we do with ourselves until then? This is actually a really great way to see the country side. We set off with map in hand and a handheld GPS unit to back it up to find our first Cel…

4 The trip today will see us cover quite a few miles, so we are up early and off. Within 1 hour we are pulled over for our first site of the day, the limestone cliffs of “ship wreck coast”.  Absolutely stunning! The next 10 km are spent stopping …

3 We navigate our way out of town and head off on the Great Ocean road. Lots of cute little sea side towns and gorgeous sweeping ocean views, shining sandy beaches and rugged cliffs. We stop to walk on the beach to see if there are shells for our coll…

1 Our motor home adventure begins by flying from Gold Coast airport to Melbourne. Tiger Air is the carrier, I booked them because they were cheap. Then I had all kinds of second thought as some locals we have met were telling us horror stories about t…

Well it is finally time to finish off 2011, since we’ve been home to Calgary and are now back and it is 2012. Man! Where does the time go?   O.K. so it’s Nov/11 and we were heading into Mooloolaba Marina, this is an in between spot after exiting …

In order to continue our southward journey onthe Great Sandy Straight, we had to be up very early to be at an extremely shallow “dog leg” in the channel, for high tide. We are back in a part of the world where tide changes are big and currents ca…