June 5 - Sheba Dam (near Nundle)
June 7 - Narrabri - Mt Kaputa and Sawn Rocks
June 9 - Allawah - farmer's property out of Bingara on the Gwydir River
June 12 - In a Caravan Park Unit for 2 nights while is poured with rain
June 14 -Blackbutt, camped in friend's back yard
June 18 - Bunyah Mountains - coldest yet was -5 deg at night. Bucket list topspot
June 20 - Injune Caravan park for 4 hours!
June 21 - Carnavon Gorge - bucket list topspot
June 23 - Sapphire
June 25 - Longreach Apex Park with over 150 other vans etc!
June 28 - Koorooringa - below Prairie - topspot
July 1 - Porcupine Gorge - Bucket list topspot
July 3 - Nelia (out of Julia Creek) - Farm Stay - a blast!
July 5 - Gregory Downs (wonderful spring-fed river in the desert)
July 9 - LAWN HILL - amazing gorge - Bucket list topspot
July 13 - Mt Isa - camped in friend's backyard! Great fun
July 18 - Kynuna to see Diamantina waterhole which inspired Waltzing Matilda. BEGINNING OF OUR DIAMANTINA EXPERIENCE
July 20 - Old Cork Homestead out of Winton - wonderful camping on 12 miles of Diamantina Waterhole
July 22 Gum Hole National Park Camping Area in the Diamantina National Park.
July 25 - to Bedourie and the five star artesian bore spa - wonderfully hot and soothing.
July 28 - Birdsville - watching the constant stream of 4WDs either going to the Simpson Desert or getting off the desert.
July 30 - Maree - great historical town
August 1 - Muloorina - north of Maree on great waterhole, Station
August 3 - Andamooka
August 4 - Roxby Downs
August 5 - Glendambo
August 7 - Mt Ive - wonderful camping and 4WD tracks on a Station
August 10 - Gawler National Parks
August 12 - Ceduna - Big4 Caravan Park Unit
Now onto Cactus Beach (for a surf!), Fowlers Bay (Southern Right whales), then down the coast to Coffin Bay - up the Eyre Penninsula for a week or so, then to Port Wakefield and Adelaide.
August 15 - Elliston - super cell storm - not much fun in a camper trailer, we were very safe behind a sand bank in the caravan park.
August 17 - Coffin Bay - sad that our favourite bay was shrouded in rain. We managed a couple of walks. Getting very trendy. Stayed in a Unit.
August 19 - Port Gibbon - great free camping spot on lovely coast.
August 21 - Port Augusta - a really lovely town these days. Amazing Arid Desert Gardens with ideas for our own back yard. Stayed in a Unit due to rain again.
Hancock Lookout - free camping here, no services. We just stayed for the view. Amazing scenes down the Spencer Gulf.
Port Wakefield to visit Ian's sister and then to Adelaide to catch up with my sister and her family and our friends.
Port Wakefield to Wyperfeld National Park, Big Desert, Victoria - Lake Albacutya, Albacutya, Victoria. Camping in lovely Western Beach (no water in the lake for about 22 years).
Sept 7 - Wyperfeld National Park, Big Desert, Victoria to Echuca - stayed in Unit to vote the next day.
Eucha to Finley Showgrounds - lovely free camp. Delightful small town.
Finley to Cocoparra National Park, NSW. Lovely quiet National Park, good camping areas and good walks. Lots of foxes, goats, pigs, kangaroos. Bird life really great.
Cocoparra to Weddin Mountains National Park - just lovely, however the gulley winds each night were really too much for us to sleep much.
Wedding Mts to Condobolin, NSW. Very well set up free park, next to a man made weir with good toilets and showers. Rain poured down.
Wet, soggy, campers returned to Mulbring and then to Silverwater!!
END OF TRIP - Absolutely marvellous trip.
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