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Our Big Oz Road Trip, Augusta (2026)

07/03/2022

It’s been a while since we posted in here…12 months to the day that we set off last year we finally decided it was time to load the van and get ready for some more fun. Lots of things planned for this year….This weekend was just a quick little test run to beautiful Augusta. We were only parked up in Grandma & Granddads drive way, but we were all so excited to be back in our little van once again 😁.

13/09/2021

Home 🏡 😍 😴

This is what 6 months and 31,945km’s looks like.

Plenty of lines still left to put on this map.

Until we next get out there Oz …..

11/09/2021

Last drinks in Broome last night 😭😭.

Can’t believe it’s nearly all over 😱 but the pull of home is getting too big now so we decided to make this our last stop and to start heading home.

What an adventure this last 6 months has been for us! Something that will stay with us forever and for which we will be forever grateful that we had the opportunity to do.

Sad that it is all over, but also so much looking forward to being back in our own beds and having all our home comforts back. Space, privacy, constant power & running water, a washing machine, a bath 🙏😍.

The time away has also given us a little bit of time to think about how we are living our ‘normal’ life at home. For us before we left it was extremely stressful, chaotic and simply just not sustainable. Really hoping that we can now start to make some positive changes in some aspects of how we do life 🤞.

We have seen and done so many amazing things - it is really painfully difficult to pick our favourites, but after much discussion here are our best of Oz lists:

Places - Family vote - top 7

Litchfield NP
Jervis Bay
Fraser Island
Bright
Cable Beach
Cape Tribulation
Uluru

Camps - Family vote - top 7

Port Lincoln - Fisherman’s point (SA)
Rollingstone Beach (Qld)
Renmark Riverbend (SA)
Random roadside stop up a hill just past Timber creek in NT
Alau Beach - Cape York
Camooweal Billabong - Qld
Hold it flats - Qld

Experiences - Individual - top 7

Richie
Kosioko climb
Suprise creek falls jumping
Little Crystal creek jumping
Rope swings at Emmagen creek - Cape Tribulation
Fraser Island
Magnetic island - Koalas
Riding around Uluru

Sam
Kosiosko Climb
Seeing a king brown snake
Mr Whippy the whip cracker
Uluru bike ride
Climbing the hay bales at Jervoise Station
Suprise creek jumps
Tubing at Cable beach

Max
Tubing at Cable beach
Kosiosko climb
Going to Cape York
Seeing a Platypus
Oondooroo station - playing with the puppies
Finding Koalas on Magnetic Island
Jumping off rocks

Cooper
Kosiosko climb
Building bike jumps with other kids at camp in Darwin
Jumping off Suprise creek falls
Body surfing in the morning at Brunswick
Staying at Cairns Coconut
Climbing the hay bales at Jervoise station
Seeing snow for the first time

Adrian
Kosiosko climb
El Questro Gorge walk
Litchfield NP - Suprise creek day
Random free camps across Nullarbor and in Outback Qld/NT
Fraser Island
Forest & bushwalks (too many to mention)
Brunswick heads

Megan
Kosiosko climb
Trek to Cape York
East coast sunrises
The Redwoods in Cape Ottway NP
El Questro - the El Questro gorge walk and Emma Gorge
Jervoise Station - hay stack sunset (outback Qld)
Litchfield NP - Suprise creek day (NT)

We want to thank everyone that has followed our journey - it has been so much fun for us and we have loved reading all your lovely comments on this page.

Finally we also wanted to say that along this journey we have met all sorts of people doing the same thing as us - older couples, older singles male & female, young singles, single parents (mums & dads), other families, and travelling in all sorts of different set ups. It really doesn’t have to be as difficult or cost as much as you might be imagining. If anyone else is curious about getting out there and feel like you need a bit of a nudge we are more than happy to talk to anyone about it and answer any questions you have.

If I (Megan) could add one more thing to my list above - probably the very best experience of all was on the very first morning. Nothing could beat that feeling of freedom when we first left our driveway!! Just go!!

Much love and happy trails to you all x

08/09/2021

And that’s a wrap on Our Big Oz Road Trip class of 2021!! It’s been a blast, but teachers you can have them back now 😀.

We have done our best to keep up with things. Were really good in the beginning, but if we are honest have faded off in our effort towards the end. School will always be there, time & opportunity for this trip will not. We chose to enjoy the time we had left and worry about the bookwork when we get home.

Are we behind where everyone else is? Probably. Are we concerned? No! Life lessons learned here are irreplaceable, but it will be catch up city on the bookwork though when we do get home.

Here is part 2 of our road school journey that we sent back to the boys classrooms this week if anyone here also wanted to watch.

07/09/2021

Bungles and Windjana Gorge

Have been working our way through the Kimberly towards the West Coast over the last week, clinging to our last few remaining days of freedom on the road 🥲. Definitely glad we chose the direction around the map we went with and are ending it up here! West is best!

Bungles were really special - loved it. Cathedral gorge and Echidna Chasm were amazing 😍.

Windjana was quite pretty as well, but to be honest it was stinking hot and we were under attack by the savage March flies - the kind that bite you through your shorts 😳. So probably didn’t enjoy this one as much as we should have. Boys had fun though croc spotting in there (don’t worry they are all freshies).

31/08/2021

El Questro & Lake Argyle

So much love for this part of Australia ❤️ and so grateful that we are still out here enjoying this country 🙏

Both these places were amazing - don’t want to pick favourites.

El Questro - awesome 4WD tracks and amazing walks 😍😍

We have done a lot of walks now on this trip & previous (including Karijini spider walk last year), and we have now officially voted that the El Questro Gorge walk is the hardest we have ever done!! To be honest it’s more of a rock climb than a walk. Full body strength required in parts to get up certain rocks, and pretty much spent more time on our butt’s than feet trying to get back down again, (well I did anyway - the little mountain goats coped a little better than the mother goat). Took us about 5 hours but we got back with only a couple of scraped knees (mine 🙄).

Lake Argyle also really beautiful, and just finished it all off with a gorgeous sunset cruise on the lake 😍

26/08/2021

Kununurra

Back doing what we love again. With the time we had left in Kununurra got out to a couple of cool swimming holes in the Grotto and Molly Springs, did the Ivanhoe crossing and Mum went pretend diamond shopping 💎🤑. Some crazy expensive stuff in there - can’t believe that they let me try it on - but geez that was fun.

Max has been sick for a little while now & took a turn for the worse while we were there, so also had a quick trip to the hospital to sort him out. Found out he has tonsillitis. Not a great look in these times to turn up to a hospital coughing and burning up 🥵, but thank goodness we had our negative Covid tests to back us up!

23/08/2021

We have made it back to WA! 4 hour wait at the border - never thought we would be so happy to see that sign 🙏. We survived our 3 nights of isolation and got set free this morning 😀😀😀

18/08/2021

Thank you so much to everyone that has helped and reached out to us over the last 24hrs 🙏. We have spoken to so many places today, as well as the Kununurra police (twice). Have been shut down so many times before we could get two words out, and even hung up on😕.

Sooo relieved to say that we have found somewhere awesome that will accept us refugees while we wait for a negative test 😂.

What we have found out;

1. Caravan parks & most other places absolutely will not accept you. They are too busy and cannot provide appropriate isolation from other guests.

2. Police will not let you put a free camp down on your G2G form.

3. Police need you to put an isolation address on your form that you will actually isolate at (and that they can check up on you). That place needs to know that you are in a period of isolation - you can’t not tell them! You need to be able to fully self contain, and you need to be able to be somewhere where you can have food delivered & not leave your camp.

4. If coming from the NT into WA - I was told you can put an isolation address as far away as Broome if you need to. They apparently allow you to stop for petrol & click/collect groceries if you need to - we won’t.

5. Kununurra health services are really under the pump and was told there can be up to 5 days wait to get a test & results (although I believe as of today they have opened up a drive through clinic). We have pre booked a test for when we hope to arrive on Friday and didn’t have any trouble doing that.

This place looks beautiful & the lady we spoke to was so kind & understanding of our situation. They have an ‘isolation’ wing to their property set up already 🙌🙌🙏🙏

Please share this information if you think that it will benefit anyone. I know that there will be lots of people finding themselves in the same situation and it is really very hard to find the right information at the moment when rules are changing so fast.

Now all we need is another zero day tomorrow & hopefully we will be back on our way 🤞

17/08/2021

Just going to throw this out there because we are really feeling a little bit stuck right now. Does anyone in here know anyone with a property within 100k’s of Kununurra where we could possibly stay or can point us in the right direction of where we could look to find a spot for up to 48 hours pending a negative Covid test?? We are fully self contained - don’t need anything other than a patch of land to park up on for a few days. Hoping this will be on Thursday, but depends what happens with the lockdown.
New Covid rules mean we need to do a test on arrival into WA - but caravan parks now won’t accept us, and nothing on hipcamps. 🤯🤯🤯. Feel free to pm us 🙏

17/08/2021

These jumps just keep getting bigger 😬. If you ask me how have the boys grown the most on this little adventure of ours - it is absolutely their confidence in themselves with just having the opportunity to try new things and push the boundaries a little bit. We would never do this kind of thing at home. 💙💙💙💙

17/08/2021

Litchfield & Adelaide River - NT

So Covid has finally caught up with us and we are currently feeling a little bit sorry for ourselves locked up in Darwin 😩. Shouldn’t really be complaining - we know very well how lucky we have been up until this point with everything else that is going on in the country right now. But I suppose if we have to be locked up, this is a pretty good spot for it to happen. We have power, water and most importantly at times like these - internet!! 🙌

Before all this happened yesterday though, we did manage a really awesome few days in Litchfield with another family we have met along the way. Had the best 4x4 adventure heading out to a place called Suprise falls. Had a couple of water crossings (one was pretty big and nearly stopped us in our tracks). Because it is a bit tricky to get to, there were no crowds and the boys got to do lots of jumping off things and had a ball! Stopped to check out the lost city, and visited a few other waterfalls and swimming holes along the way.

Keeping everything crossed for no more cases here so lockdown can be lifted and we can make our (slightly earlier than planned) run to the WA border 🤞

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