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The Bald Journaller
Aug 14, 20184 min read
Postscript: The Australian “Okker” Awards 2018
We are over half way home. A quick change of planes in Dubai and as the trip has come towards its end, Nareesa and I have inevitably...
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The Bald Journaller
Aug 13, 20181 min read
Day 58 (saying goodbye, and heading home)
We are now at the airport, flight has been called, and the trip is almost over. But with an evening flight we had one last day to take in...
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The Bald Journaller
Aug 13, 20182 min read
Day 57 (Perth, Freemantle - Freeo, obviously, and Rottnest Island - Rotto, of course)
We are almost done. Our last full day but we spent it well - a trip out to Freemantle and a ferry out to Rottnest Island. A trip down...
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The Bald Journaller
Aug 12, 20184 min read
Day 56 (the continent is crossed - again)
Hard to believe but we are still in the outback in the morning. Well into Western Australia now but still endless scrubland and big skies...
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The Bald Journaller
Aug 11, 20182 min read
Day 55 ("No trees", aka The Nullabor)
As I write I sit on a stationary train outside the presumably ironically named Forest; it might have actually been named after an...
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The Bald Journaller
Aug 9, 20183 min read
Day 54(Broken Hill, the Barossa valley and Adelaide)
A knock at the door at about 6am (but we have gone half an hour back), announces that we will get into Broken Hill in about 40 minutes....
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The Bald Journaller
Aug 9, 20182 min read
Day 53 (Leaving Sydney and heading west again)
We have a sense today of starting to head home. At Sydney turn right. From slowly getting further away we are just about to start getting...
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The Bald Journaller
Aug 7, 20181 min read
Day 52 (Sydney encore)
And another thing NSW Transport...why do you call the stop on the ferry "Olympic Park", when it is nowhere near the bloody Olympic Park?!...
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The Bald Journaller
Aug 6, 20181 min read
Day 51 (Sydney)
As ever we didn't try to do all the tourist things - I guess we had done most of them on previous visits - but we did manage to pack in a...
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The Bald Journaller
Aug 5, 20182 min read
Day 50 (into Sydney)
No doubt one of the world's great cities! A coffee bar on every corner and a pub next door - oh yeah and a world famous opera house, a...
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The Bald Journaller
Aug 5, 20181 min read
Day 49 (Tuncurry to Manly)
Today was a people day - as long as you discount the short (well 5 hours!) drive. We went thought some beautiful scenery in the lake...
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The Bald Journaller
Aug 3, 20182 min read
Day 48 (Byron Bay to Tuncurry)
Who has road works for 155km?!!!! Yes, 155, one hundred and fifty five!!! 50 odd kilometres, three times in succession! That's from...
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The Bald Journaller
Aug 2, 20181 min read
Day 47 (Byron Bay)
The magical Byron Bay! A lazy day! A walk into the town centre (about 10 minutes), a walk round the surfer shops and a few hippy ones...
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The Bald Journaller
Aug 2, 20182 min read
Day 46 (Hervey Bay to Byron Bay)
How cool are these crossing lights?! We stopped in Maryborough, about 40km up river from Hervey Bay for a look at the town that at one...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 31, 20182 min read
Day 45 (Fraser Island)
I should rename this Fraser Island Lite. We fully admit we didn’t take full advantage of all that was on offer. We just couldn’t summon...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 31, 20182 min read
Day 44 (Yeppoon to Hervey Bay)
A driving day - we are getting used to them! Funny how your perspective changes - a 500km day now feels like a walk on the park, a quick...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 30, 20181 min read
Day 43 (Great Keppel Island, off the Yeppoon coast)
Well, what a day - we (and by we I of course mean our wonderful friends Cameron and Juanita) chartered a catamaran to take us to Great...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 28, 20181 min read
Day 41 & 42 (Yeppoon, chez Juanita & Cameron)
A longish drive from Airlie Beach to Yeppoon (find Rockhampton on the Queensland map and go out to the coast), down what we later heard...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 26, 20181 min read
Day 39 & 40 (Airlie Beach and the Whitsunday Islands)
The Whitsundays - what can you say? Nothing really, so I will let the pictures do the talking... (And I managed a cheeky dive on the GBR...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 25, 20182 min read
Day 38 (south (again) towards Airlie Beach)
We are missing the European heatwave, but reading about it in the news, and distressed to hear of the fires all over the continent, and...
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