We headed to Broken Hill on the Silver City highway. About six kilometres from town, we turned off to look at the Peeri Sands. This collection of sand dunes are brilliant colours, reds and browns. This is a few hectares of dunes in the middle of nowhere. Almost no traffic was heading our way as we headed back on the … Continue reading →
The further we went west from Wagga Wagga we drove the straighter roads got, until they became very long and flat plains, these plains are irrigated by the Murrumbidgee river as it runs from the Snowy mountains, passed our city of Canberra and joins with the Murray River. I have been told that Murrumbidgee means “big water” in the Wiradjuri language, … Continue reading →
It is not very often you wake up in the morning and decided to go on holiday, this year it is sort of what happened with our holiday. In deciding what to do, we thought, why don’t we just drive west and see where the roads would take us. Its summer and the Christmas holiday season so you would think there was … Continue reading →
In 1998 on boxing day bored and looking forward to a few days off with nothing planned we decided instead falling asleep in the back yard we would drive a little west. This journey was unplanned and took us across three states, from the to the outback in Silverton NSW, the very bottom of mainland Australia and to the lush … Continue reading →
