Monthly Archives: May 2022

19/5/2022 – Thursday – Off to Moonta this morning, only a short drive & we head to the Moonta Mine Museum, bad luck, it opens at 1pm.  The little train that takes you around the old mine only works on … Continue reading →

18/5/2022 – Wednesday – 145km Today is leaving day after a week at Melrose, we pack & say goodbye to all the friends of KKOG. We end up getting away at around 9.30am & head south through the surrounding wheat … Continue reading →

17/5/2022 – Tuesday – 45km This morning is washing day, we are nearly out of socks & undies, we are 2nd in the queue at 8am & have to wait. I drive out to Boolaroo Centre to look at the … Continue reading →

16/5/2022 – Monday – 125km This morning we are off to Quorn, 62km away, for a ride on the Pitchi Ritchi Railway from the old Quorn Railway Station. We arrive in plenty of time & have a look around the … Continue reading →

15/5/2022 – Sunday – 145km A sleep-in this morning as our group departed at 9.15am on the Bridle Track & Bluff Lookout drive. We turned out of Melrose along the Surveyor’s Road on a little stretch of bitumen until it … Continue reading →

14/5/2022 – Saturday – This morning we caught up with our Kimberley Kamping neighbours, downhill from Batemans Bay & uphill from Sydney, chatting with all four for a fair while. Off for a walk to town next through the showground … Continue reading →

13/5/2022 – Friday – 154km Up early & off on a group drive around the Melrose area with 9 cars in our group. We drive off along on lots of isolated dirt roads travelling the back country. One of the … Continue reading →

12/5/2022 – Thursday – We slept well, lovely & cosy under our eiderdown doona but woke to a cold foggy morning.  After breakfast I wander over to register & pay.  The day is a beautiful sunny 19C by now. We … Continue reading →

11/5/2022 – Wednesday – 749km Around 7.45am just as it got light we departed Pevensey and continued across the Hay Plain in light rain through Balranald and crossed the Murray River at Euston before continuing to Mildura and refuelling. After … Continue reading →

10/5/2022 – Tuesday – 558km We departed at 13.22pm after lunch & headed off towards Melrose in South Australia, the annual Kimberley Karavan Owner Group get together. After refuelling in Yass we turned off the main highway to Bowning & … Continue reading →