Blackwattle Roaming

Oystercatchers join the seagulls

This is the story of Ted, Nancy and Charlie the Jack Russell, driving around Australia (like many others), without much of a plan

So, time to sell…

We’ve done four major trips around different parts of Australia in the last couple of years, and so it’s time to sell our lovely Blackwattle Roaming. Sad, but just another era, and time to go on to something new. Here below is the very formal description of the van, with our amateur photos, of how…

Can’t go east, north, west so it’s…

23rd May, 2022: …Back down the Birdsville Track Just to reiterate, on arriving in Birdsville, we had found much of Queensland had been flooded, and the road to Innamincka also cut with floods, and the Diamentina was about to isolate Birdsville, perhaps tomorrow. So, the only reasonable way out was to leave again, the way…

The Birdsville Track:

In some ways, this has been expected to be the high point of this trip, so we set out with some excitement. Will it be as good as the Tanami?  We are to pass through a number of deserts, the Tirari Desert, the Strzelecki Desert, then the Simpson and the Great Stony Desert. Where is…

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