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The floods and rain don’t only bring wet and uncomfortable conditions. The country town of Wagga Wagga is suffering from a real spider invasion. The phenomenon is known as ‘ballooning’. Thousands of spiders have cast eerie webs over vast areas of flood-hit parts of New South Wales after being forced to seek shelter by the rising waters. [...]

If you think we had enough rain in Sydney ? It keeps going on. The past 24 hours were the wettest in March ever in history, whilst the New South Wales country towns south of Sydney are still suffering from floods and overflowing dams. Sydney had an official amount of 120 mm of rain, but [...]

Come jump in our car and drive with us to the beach !

Time to go back to Sydney. Not in one day. It’s more than 1,600 km from Kangaroo Island to our home, so we split it into three relaxing trips. Three days to contemplate about this beautiful holiday. It felt like our first two holidays to Western Australia. Vast distances, blue skies, red soil and so [...]

Welcome to South Australia ! We cross the border just after 09h00, half an hour after we left Broken Hill. Apart from a sign and a ‘border cafe’, there is nothing but outback. Further west, it keeps empty on the road with hardly any traffic to the Flinders Ranges. January is usually not tourist season for the Flinders as it [...]

Finally, holidays ! Jump in our car for the next big trip on this amazing and beautiful continent. Outback New South Wales and South Australia. Our first day is a 400 km drive to Dubbo, via Bathurst which lies half way and where our lovely friends Christian and Melissa live. A good opportunity to say [...]

We are still on track to travel ’round the continent’ of Australia. However, we are not backpackers, nor have a sabbatical leave of multiple years to do it all at once. We have to do it in stages. So far we have seen great parts of Australia. I’m still in love with Western Australia (so [...]

A real 4WD experience in the Hunter Valley. Due to the recent rain, some rivers and waters around Wollombi were flooded, and without a decent four wheel drive vehicle it would have been a real challenge. Unfortunately no photo of my Toyota Prado Landcruiser crossing the river (difficult if you’re inside), but hilarious to take [...]