by Jim and Gisela Spires | May 14, 2011 | Australia-2011
Volunteers Paul and Dick cooked the hamburgers for our cookout in Moree. Our gracious host-Fantasy provided the burgers and fixings plus chips and dessert, others brought an assortment of yummy goodies. Using the famous Australia barbie, our chefs cooked our burgers...
by Doug and Linda Stoudt | May 14, 2011 | Australia-2011
Today we enjoyed a Hamburger BBQ at our Gwydir Carapark (campground) and then had an opportunity to soak away our aches and pains in very nice, 39 degree Centigrade, Artesian Mineral water pools right in the campground. There were a total of 5 pools each with...
by Gisela Spires | May 13, 2011 | Australia-2011
Randy and Paul enjoy the warm afternoon at our camp in Lightning Ridge, the Opal Capitol of Australia. Of course the ladies are out shopping at the many opal shops in town. The guys are taking their minds off of the opal shopping with a “cold one” while...
by Gisela Spires | May 12, 2011 | Australia-2011
Lightning Ridge is on the edge of the Australian Outback. As we travelledfrom the white sandy beaches of the east coast we passed through the heart of cotton growing country and it is picking time. At the cotton gins thereare huge bales of cotton as far as one can...
by Doug and Linda Stoudt | May 11, 2011 | Australia-2011
In Warrumbungle National Park, we found a site at our campground that had a Kangaroo grazing on the grass and foliage within a few yards of our campsite. We sat outside with the very friendly Roo and were eating the leftovers from the great dinner we had the...
by Gisela Spires | May 11, 2011 | Australia-2011
Enroute from Lightning Ride to Warrumbungle (180 mile drive) everyone ascended on a small grocery store in a tiny town to buy marshmallows. The little clerk had never seen so many ‘foreigners’ come into her store. We knew we’d be having a campfire...
