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Monday 30th November 2009

Finally (after spending the weekend packing up and washing van's and cars) we pull out of Kimberleyland around 11am, we make our way west heading towards Broome.  We stop over night at Spring Creek (camps 5 No: 644) its a nice big rest area with plenty of shade (no water in the creek as yet).  It was a LONG, HOT night for us because the brand new invertor decided to not work (We had an extra battery and an invertor installed at Kununurra,...

Monday 2nd of November.

Well this time 12mths ago, we were sleeping on the floor (blow up mattress) in our very empty home that tomorrow would no longer be ours.  The house settled the 3rd November 2008 and we spent our first night (homeless!!) at the Caboolture river lake hotel.  We picked up our van on the very next day and the adventure began.   Well 12mths on we have NO regrets (only that we had done this sooner).  We have grown individually as ...

Sunday 13th September

Brad is kind enough to take Jacob along with him and Jackson  to a local event RecFish West - they are encouraging kids to fish for fun - they had a great day out and managed to catch a few fish.  And Jacob managed to get his picture in the paper (as only Jacob could do!!)

Saturday 12th September,

We head off really early 7am (yes that is early thank you!!!) we arrive at the Gibb River road and all let a few pounds out of the tyres, the road is quite rough and corrugated - we have a LOT of fun!!!!.:D

Gibb River Road:

We arrive at Emma Gorge and walk the 25 mins walk to the waterhole - Awesome!!  We are r...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATTHEW!!  We decided not to go out to dinner (once bitten, twice shy!!!) they charge a kings ransome here and because 70% of the population is the "travelling public" they don't go to a lot of trouble with the meals!!!

We buy some lovely seafood from Discovery and cook it up ourselves!! YUMMO.  We all had a really great night in, early start in the morning - we are going to "tackle" The Gibb River Road with Brad, Julie and their two kids Tayla and ...

September 3rd

What a day for Caroline - as she works in the caravan park and on a daily basis books various tours for the tourists she was offered a free 2.5hr flight  (it was hard advising tourists on a popular flight she hadn't even been on!!).  It was TOTALLY AWESOME!!! and better still she got to sit in the front with the pilot (she did freak out a little as the plane was a single engine (not much bigger than our Landcruiser and could only seat 6 i...

Saturday 22nd August

Finally Matt and I have a day off!! (Yay, after 6 weeks of working seven days a week its time to be "bloody tourist's" for one day).

We take the kids to Lake Argyle, Ivanhoe's Crossing and the pumphouse for a milk shake.  A great relaxing day was had by all.

Lake Argyle:

This photo was taken not too far from our caravan site!!!  A Freshwater Croc sunning itself, Racheal got a little to close for mum's comfort, she had to remind her that it was real, there's no fence and those teeth will hurt!!!

Thursday 13th August

Today Laura turns 9yrs old!!!!:D, she was up VERY early this morning to open her presents, including a baby born (swimmer), some books and some Beado's from Aunty Santa.

Tonight we are all going out to dinner.  Well another week has passed and we are now a family of five (a...

We have had a good first week going to school and working hard (only 14 weeks to go - then off we go again, but hey who's counting :D).

Racheal has made a new friend here at the caravan park - her name is Mia, Mia is German and doesn't speak a word of english, Racheal doesn't speak a word of German!!!  however the two of them are about the same age and language is definately no barrier, they play happily together for hours each day (after Racheal gets home from school of course!!) ...