Landsbourgh – Brisbane Monday 27th April

Today we have to get the van in for a service so up early to have it at AOR by 8am. 

We decided to spend the day at Australia Zoo before heading to Brisbane. 

 Had a great day and did not leave there until around 2:30pm.

Meandarra – Landsbourgh Sunday 26th April

When we woke up today the wind was howling and very cold now we have to rug up in winter gear.

We left Meandarra about 10am and headed to Dalby, stopped there for lunch. 

Arrived at the Pines Caravan park about 4:30pm just in time before the sun went down.

25th April Saturday Meandarra

Fly over Meandarra

Today is ANZAC day so we are up at 4:30am for Meandarra’s first and our first dawn service. The main street at 5am was full of people young and old I think the most people they have seen here for some time.

After the service we had breakfast in the main hall which was very popular. After that we came back to camp for a real cup of tea and a rest before heading back to town for the march which started at 10:30 then to the service at the end of the street.

12:30pm we were back in camp for lunch and rest for the afternoon before heading into town for dinner.

Rose on a Harley Davidson

Goondiwindi – Meandarra 24th April Friday

 18dec c

We drove down to the info centre around 9am to see what we could see around town before heading out.  We did visit the cotton shop nice things good price bought some hand cream and soap.

Stopped at Moonie for fuel and cold drink as the temp is starting to rise. We arrived in Meandarra about 12:30 just in time to have lunch.

Brian arrived about 1:45 for the weekend, after a cuppa we went into town for a look around town and a ice cream.

Sydney – Goondiwindi 23rd April Thursday

Temp:  15deg c

 

Hooked up ready to leave after 3days of torrential rain, It took just over ½ hr to reach the freeway, lots of trees down along the way and we stopped at the Macc’s they did not have any power so we had to continue on.

Reached Musswellbrook at about 9am for a quick breaky, we saw lots of water along the way no flooding over the roads. We had lunch north of Gunedah in a pull of the road area.

We arrived in Goondiwindi around 5pm found a big 4 caravan park for the night.  Found out my cotton tour was cancelled for tomorrow.

Getting Ready

We have been very busy packing the van and making sure we have everything, catching up with family before making tracks.

One of our daughters (Melissa) has bought a bear and would like us to take it on our trip so it can see some of Australia.  We are also taking Corrie I bought him on our WA trip and since we will be seeing crocs on this trip taking him is appropriate.



Rose (bear) & Corrie (crocodile)

2015 big adventure

We are heading north this year starting our trip from Sydney Goondiwindi is our first stop and we hope to take a cotton tour there, we are having Anzac day in Meandarra QLD.

Meandarra war museum

 East to Caloundra to have our caravan serviced and some upgrades done, next stop is a dam near Clermont.

Near Clermont

We then head to Townsville to have the car serviced before travelling to cobbord gorge and meeting up with friends and heading across to Kurumba.

Townsville reef Hq

Onto Lawn Hill for some kayaking then kingfisher camp, back on the Savannaha way to Cape Crawford, Loretta Springs is next on the list, north to Roper Bar before heading west to Mataranka, north to Katherine and there we have to fill in 12 days waiting for our permits to enter Arnhem land so we will tour around Douglas Daly and Daly river.

We then do Nhulunbuy once we have our permits, Kakadu then north into Cobourg Peninsula for a few days, onto Darwin, Litchfield national park.

Now it is time to head home and we will head down to Alice Springs before heading down the Binns track down to Andado then home on the black