We’re on the road again….

Hello everyone and welcome to the new blog of our ‘winter escape’ holiday. This year we are heading to Cape York- you know, that big pointy bit of Queensland, right up in the top right-hand corner of Australia. It will be a slow meandering trip with no exact plans. Oh, except for attending the Birdsville Races on the first weekend in September on the way home. I already have my race outfit packed away and the RM boots polished!!

I am currently sitting beside the caravan on a beautiful grassed area in between the grand stands and the race track of the Broken Hill Racecourse. The sun is shining and it is a gorgeous day- about 20C I would say! This place is just lovely. You can stay here for $15/night unpowered and wake to the trotting of horses as they do their morning workouts on the racecourse. It is so much nicer than the 2 caravan parks in town (neither of which get rave reviews online!) and we can access clean water, and you can have a powered site too, if you want. Magic!

Just near the finish post. Roll on Melbourne Cup!

We left home promptly at 10am on Friday 1^st May and headed North. Our first night was spent at Terowie, a lovely little town with only a post office still operational these days! Our rest stop was on a grassed area next to the old Terowie railway station which is currently being renovated back to its original glory. This is a free spot with no amenities, but a great overnight spot just the same.

We only stayed here one night and headed north the following morning. As we were leaving, I needed to take some photos of some information boards at the railway station that had my shadow on them yesterday as the sun was in the wrong spot. While I was taking my photos a fellow camper came over to say hi and recommended that we leave town on the northern road as you go past something really interesting near the cemetery, and to keep my camera at the ready. Well, I was well and truly intrigued now!

So off we headed and just up the road were a whole paddock of things made from old cast iron ‘junk’. There were emus (my favorites!!), Martians, robots and even Ned Kelly. They were brilliant- so well done!

I can see these relocating to the Adelaide Hills..... 

Onward we headed to Broken Hill. The day was just brilliant- sunny and not too busy on the roads. But one thing we did notice was nearly every time we came to a bridge, and it’s always one where the road narrows down slightly and there are posts and guards on the side of the bridge, we would always meet someone coming the other way. We could go for ages not seeing anyone then there would be 3 bridges in a quick succession and we would meet a vehicle, or semi, at every single one of them!! It was hilarious!

You can see where we are and where we have been from our tracker.

 http://www.exploroz.com/EOTrackMe/Default.aspx#tabs=0&d=e3ec3a32-3569-39a5-969b-84d4f99ac998

The password is: muggydo2

Until next blog, stay warm down there and we’ll put our sunnies back on! 

Love Jules and Morcs xx