Long travel day to Cobar

Packed up and ready to set off, then Adam noticed that the trailer tryes where scrubbing, when to a couple of trye places to see if anything could be done but every where was booked out, Adam adjusted the camber on the trye to help reduce the scrubbing.

While Adam was doing that, the kids and I went for a walk up the street and found a status of Bob the railway dog๐Ÿ•.

And then went and had a look into the carriage museum.

Which was pretty cool, the window where a tv screen and had sounds as if the train was moving.

Finally left Peterborough at 9am.

Nearly made it to the nsw Boarder only 10km out and the trailer tyre blewโ˜น.

Adam changed it. Thanka Adam ๐Ÿ˜˜๐Ÿ˜

And the kids did a dance on the road

Then set off again.

Finally made it to NSW.

Stopped in at broken hill and we where able to find a second hand spare trye for the trailer๐Ÿ˜€.

Set off again finally pulling into Cobar at 6:05 or NSW time at 6:35.

First time on our trip setting up in the dark.

Then we went to the great western Hotel for dinner, had woodfire pizzas and Adam and the kids played pool.

Peterborough 23/9

Left coober pedy at 8:30am

Travelled 660km and saw salt lakes, awesome mountains ranges and the kids survived with no devices.

Quick stop to check out the giant red gum tree at Orroroo estimated to be 500 years old and trunk circumference of 10 meters.

Arrived at Peterborough at 3:30pm

Setup and then went to the Victoria Park which is right next to the carnavan park, awesome playground which the kids loved and a huge duck pond, went back to the camper trailer to get bread so the kids could feed the ducks.

Then went into town to get dinner, firstly checked out the old steamtrain

Then went to the old railway pub for dinner built in 1891

Coober Pedy 22/9

Decided to stay today to have a break from traveling and to check out the town.

First went to the old timers Mine.

Then went to the big winch lookout in the middle of town.

Then went to the local noodling place where we found a couple of small opals and some other rocks.

Checked out one of the underground churches.

Then went to umoona mine.

Found a spaceship

Love opals

Still traveling 20/9 & 21/9

Left Warburton roadhouse at 7:20am this morning.

Travelled 650km (550km dirt & bad croageation)

Stopped in at the viewing area of aryes rocks

Arrived at curtain springs at 4pm

( did lose 1hr & 30min when we crossed the boarder today)

Sadly the camper trailer has broken even more, the fridge plus draw slide wheels have broken off so we can no longer open it. ๐Ÿ˜ญ

Had dinner at the restaurant at the roadhouse.

We have agreed as a family when we get home we will burn the camper trailer to the ground whahahaha ( evil laugh)

Or William will fill the campertrailer with cherry bombs and blow it to smithereens.

21/9

Left Curtain springs at 8:30 travelled 650km and arrived at Coober pedy at 3pm.

Did cross over the SA boarder today.

Travelled all day 19/9

We left Leinster nice and early this morning at 7:20am drove 800km ( 500km being on a dirt rd) and arrived at Warburton community at 4pm.

Only stopped twice, first we stopped at the start of the dirt road to let the tyres down and second stop 44km out of Warburton as we ran out of fuel & had to fill up with the Jerry Can, also had to slow right down 30km out of Warburton as there was camels on the road.

We fill up at the roadhouse at $2.30L dearest petrol on our whole trip.

Setup and had dinner – hamburgers, while waiting for dinner the kids chased the peacocks around the park.

Now traveling East

Left Kalbarri at 8:30 this morning, traveled 765km stopping once for lunch and fuel at mt magnet.

Arrived at Leinster at 4:45, setup and found the frame inside the campertrailer had broken, Adam has dodged it up for now, went to the miners mess for dinner, awesome buffet & kids loved the large selection of cordial drinks & icecream flavors, pretty good vaule total $70 ๐Ÿ™‚

Kalbarri 17/9

Took the kids into town to feed the pelicans in the morning.

Then Adam took the kids fishing off the wharf opposite the caravan park.

While April played with her friends she made at the caravan park, Sasha and leigha.

April & I joined Adam at the wharf and I had another go at fishing on the handline, and finally caught a fish ๐Ÿ˜€

Then Jasmine caught a bigger fish also on the handline.

Then we got a message from the Manos saying that they r in town for the day, so caught up with them over lunch, while the kids played in the park.

Had Mango Chicken stir fry with noodles for dinner.

Exploring Kalbarri 16/9

After breakfast we drove to the Kalbarri National park, firstly doing the Natural Window walk only 1km return.

Then we went to the z bend lookout.

Above photo is tracks made from a artropods (looks like a giant scorpion) millions of years ago.

Then headed into kalbarri it’s self and checked out the town.

The kids loved the playground.

Then went for a walk to the red bluff lookout, overlooking kalbarri.

Super windy and saw a pod of dophins, pretty cool.

Then went for a drive to the pink lakes about 40km away, the girls have been begging to have a look.


The distinctive pink colour of the water is from a mixture of green alga & the salt levels in the water.

Kalbarri 15/9

Worst packup ever everything was wet from last night dew and the wind was blowing everything away, set off at 9:05 luckily we started nice and early.

Had a slow drive out of the NP over the sandy boggy bumpy track.

Took us 1hr to do 40km.

Then travelled another 400km to Kalbarri arriving at the Anchorage caravan park at 3:30pm.

Setup, Adam & William stayed at the caravan park & went for a swim, while to girls went grocery shopping at another over priced IGA.

Jasmine & April joined the boys for a swim in the pool, then we cooked dinner.

Chicken schnitzel burgers or wraps.

Watched the sunset over the lake.

Most westernly point 13/9

Had a slow start to the day as didn’t get much sleep due to the wind all night.

Went for a snorkel with Jasmine and April to the little reef in front of our campsite.

Then went for a drive to steep point the most westernly point of Australia.

Then drove further along the cliff line to Thunder Bay only a 13km drive but took forever us the road was very rough.

Finally arrived at Thunder Bay & checked out the awesome cliffline and all the blow holes. ( no fences here)

Then headed back to camp, Jasmine cooked dinner for us mince chow mien.

Thanks Jasmine very yummy, while William went fishing.