One Small Lap
Free Camp
Overnight, we’ve left the windows open a bit. I wake just before 6 and get a quick photo of the sunrise. With cloud cover on the horizon, we don’t actually see it rise till closer to 6:45.
Whilst it’s nice & warm in bed, if I had the heater remote I would have switched it on. Around 7, I get up, grab a coffee and head outside. Wow what a difference, outside in the sun with hardly any wind, it’s beautiful, really warm.
Continue reading “Day 6 – Swimcart Camp Loop”
We get up just before 8. Bacon and eggs off the Barby, then a shower. So nice to be able to do that while camping up.
Liam and I go out for a walk. There’s a sandbar just in front of the campsite that was isolated when we drove in yesterday, but as the tide must be lower we can walk out to it now.
Continue reading “Day 5 – Anson’s Bay to Swimcart Beach”
Well I’m not sure you could get two different nights. It was so warm overnight I though we might have somehow turned the heater on. When we wake up it’s close to 20°
Up just after 7, and while we’re in no rush, it does take us ages to get ready. We take the opportunity to fill the tanks up and we’re not out of the campground till after 10.
Continue reading “Day 4 – Launceston to Anson’s Bay”
A nice, but checkered night sleep. I finally get up at 6:30 and have a coffee in the fresh of the morning looking at the river. While fresh, it was nowhere near cold enough to bother with the diesel heater.
Continue reading “Grantham’s Bend – Day 1”
A restless sleep, and when I look up my clock reads 5:30, Argh! A short while later Justine’s reads 6:37. What the! Then I look at mine again, 5:37, damn you daylight savings!!!!
I’m not going to get back to sleep, so by 6 (correct time) I’m up. We got most of the van finished yesterday and we even hitched up, so a few last-minute things I say goodbye and by 7:30 I’m off.
Continue reading “Home to Waygunyah”
About 3am I hear rain. I know the chairs, while under the van are hanging out. I race out and just chuck them further under, at least they won’t be saturated.
Continue reading “Day 33 – Echuca to Wahgunyah”
We all sleep in. After breakfast, I take a walk up to the next bend in the river. Unlike where we are, you can get down to the river pretty easy, it might have been a old boat ramp or something., There is a small beach here too.
Continue reading “Day 30 – Wills Bend”
At 7:30 the BOM was reporting -2.1°, it was certainly fresh, even with the diesel heater running. The fields next to the van park had a nice frost and even the van roof hatches had a cover of frost.
Continue reading “Day 29 – Bendigo to Wills Bend (Echuca)”
Thank you Premier!…..
I wake this morning to the news that NSW, well Sydney, is likely to extend lockdown. I was fully expecting this, what was unexpected was that schools would not be returning either. The plan appears to be remote learning, and we all know how well that went last time…… In the back of my mind, I’d said to myself if school goes back, we’ll go back, but if school is closed, then all bets are off.
Continue reading “Day 26 – Ballarat to
A slow start, we’ve only got 30odd KMs to go today and as the aim is a freecamp, so it’s not the place you want to spend all day. So we pack up pretty much at the last minute to leave at 10. It’s around this time Justine reminds me that the water pump isn’t working. I recall there being a possible pressure issue, but not stopped completely (there is some disagreement here!).
Continue reading “Day 13 – Mt Gambier to Port MacDonnell (Cape Northumberland)”