Loving the blog cuppa.
We're back over there the day after boxing day for about a week mainly over the east coast and Hobart this time. I'll be sure to keep an eye out for ya.
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Loving the blog cuppa.
We're back over there the day after boxing day for about a week mainly over the east coast and Hobart this time. I'll be sure to keep an eye out for ya.
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@jay see - we're based in Chudleigh near Mole Creek over the new year period.
We're going to be in Hobart.Quote:
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We went to the zoo in Mole Creek during feeding time for the Tasmanian devil, it was good and we feed the kangaroos as well.
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Will visit there in the next few days. Have been told that it's best of several places in Tassie where they have Devils in captivity.Quote:
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Yep, would have to agree.Quote:
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We have enjoyed being in one place over the new year.
Chudleigh
The Far South of Tassie
Loving the Blog Cuppa, keep it coming.
This fishing is becoming a problem, when you get back I’ll show you the gate to the local fish hatchery. You can practice there after dark.
Just wondering if I should tell you I took the grandkids fishing the other week, Redfin first cast for the grandson.
A little corner of South Bruny Island is 'heaven on a stick'.
Two things to note in this episode Cuppa:
1. Made me laugh when you said how much better Hobart is the second time around, when you know where you're going! First time I was there I couldn't wait to get out. Bloody hated the place. Now? Love the joint! Understanding the one-way street system is the secret to happiness there! Great place.
2. Damn you....damn you to hell....Cuppa.....with your write up of Bruny Island. I've still gotta work for a living in this game they call "normal life" for a few years yet mate, and the idyllic picture you painted of South Bruny, a place I've long wanted to visit, does not make my life any easier!
But thanks anyway, really enjoyed that one!
I rang him up today to ask him when he’s moving there.Quote:
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To say he likes the place is a mighty understatement.
Hi Cuppa, great read as usual. I've got the same "yawning rock" photo at Sleepy Bay from our trip down there a few years ago. Lovely place! Need to get back again!!
We find places to love on Tassie's East Coast
http://cuppa500.com/Blog/2018/03/05/east-coast/
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Awesome read as always thankyou Cuppa mate!
6,500 clicks around Tassie is a huge effort and no doubt at least 1,500 clicks of your poor knee mate! Rest well at home for now and hit the mainland straight highways after surgery best success wishes, keep on trucking good team :-) !!
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Nothing set in stone but here is our (very) rough/approximate plan for the next year or three. It'll be interesting to look back & see how much & how closely we followed it.
Planning is under way for the first leg which should see us in Broome later this year, hopefully for the Wet if it works out. It's a bit of a gamble that we'll find a suitable place to stay up there, (living in the Tvan during the Wet is not an option) but we feel our best chance of finding a place will be if we are up there. If it doesn't come off we'll head somewhere south & return to the Kimberley early the following season.
Applied for the transit permits today. Just 3 needed - 2 for the Gary junction Rd (NT & WA sections) & the Haasts Bluff back road from Glen Helen to Papunya. All going well this leg will take us up the Oodnadatta track & then on to Mt Dare, Finke, Chambers Pillar, Hugh River & the Painted Desert before reaching Alice Springs. From Alice along the Larapinta Drive to Palm Valley, Boggy Hole & Hermansberg before cutting up to Papunya & the Gary Junction Road to Gary Junction. Then south on the Gary Highway to Windy Corner were we hang a right onto the Talawana track, following it to where it crosses the Canning Stock Route at Georgia Bore, & then on to Parngurr before cutting North through Karlamilyi (Rudall River) NP, exiting to the Telfer Mine & on to Carawine Gorge & Nullagine via the interestingly named Skull Springs Rd. Somewhere around there I expect we might be ecstatic to see bitumen again to take us down to Newman & further south until we hang a right again a little below the Collier Ranges NP (which we will enquire about access there - all a bit mysterious - the only account I can fnd about the CR NP is a brief one by Ron & Viv Moon which gives little away) en route to Mt Augustus NP, Kennedy Ranges NP, Gascoyne Junction & on to the Coast around Carnarvon. After that a trundle up the highway to Broome with a few side trips to the coast & inland to Milstream Chichester NP/Marble bar etc.
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Anyone interested in this sort of desert country travelling might enjoy looking at our friend's blog. They are currently limping into Newman after covering over 1000kms in their self built Canter based expedition truck, having given Karlamilyi a miss due to having broken a main rear leaf spring on the Sandy Blight Junction Rd (runs north south between Docker River on the Great Central Rd & Kintore on the Gary Junction Rd).
They are very experienced travellers as you will see. Their current trip is at the bottom of the page. http://www.epicycles.com/
Don't forget to stop at Farina Cuppa ,great spot for an overnighter or just to fill up on the goodies available at the bakery .
Safe upcoming travels Cuppa Family! Great inspiration Ali & Julian!!
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Sooo jealous, what a great lay out Cuppa, enjoy!!!
Awesome cuppa, enjoy mate. . .
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Gday cuppa, looks amazing mate! How difficult is it to get permits into Arnhem Land? I thought it wasnt easy?
I was curious about the same thing, thought you needed a reason to go through.Quote:
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Don't know at the moment Plassy ........... only looking at the '1st leg' of the journey at the moment, which should take us through to the end of the year. No idea when we'll reach Arnhemland, but the hope is we'll spend a good part of next year exploring the Kimberley in depth so it could well be 2020 before we reach Arnhemland. That said I believe getting tourism permits is easier than it used to be, but I think there are plenty of areas which remain out of bounds to visitors. I have the impression that it is probably easier to get permits to a number of places if you have the time to 'hang around' & fit in with whatever is going on. Probably far more difficult to sort such things out to fit around a three week (for example) holiday.Quote:
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We've kicked ourselves for years for not taking up an invitation to go into Arnhemland from a bloke we met up with in Katherine back in'09 ...... reckon we could have stayed there a while with just his 'verbal' permit.
After a few false starts & medical delays ............ we finally leave tomorrow..... for as long as it takes. Because we now only have 2.5 months (instead of 4 months) to get to Broome we will have to see how we go for time & adjust our route as we go. Still going across the western deserts from Alice, but may have to save some of the mid west for another time. Our wet season caretaking gig 200kms north of Broome has been confirmed today. Still not sure if we are crazy to commit to a full wet season, but that is what we've done, & we expect to remain in the Kimberley until the end of the 2019 dry season, perhaps longer if we feel like a second wet season there. New blog posts should commence in the near future.
Have a good trip mate [emoji106]
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Thanks Dave.Quote:
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Look forward to the updates, good luck and enjoy guys. .
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Again I am so jealous!
Please keep us updated Cuppa. It was great to follow Rosscos journey and yours sounds equally jealousyiusseyses mol
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With the uncertainty of your destinations, will surely provide inspiration. Watching with interest CUPPA.
When I was 19, my cousin and I climbed the sheer rock face of "The Bluff" near Murchison settlement. The view from the top was magnificent. My uncle drove the back way to the top and picked us up.
We stayed with some locals and had a great time. I can't find The Bluff on any maps, though. I love that area of the world. Enjoy your trip.
Who turned the heater off in SA?
Nobody Cuppa.Quote:
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Their power grid fell off it's feet again.
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Hello All,
Just adding the latest links to Cuppa’s Blog as he’s out in the desert and won’t have internet access for the next three weeks or so:
http://cuppa500.com/Blog/2018/07/12/off-we-go-again/
http://cuppa500.com/Blog/2018/07/12/red-dune-country/
Enjoy the read.
Thanks Jack, we spent last night down at Boggy Hole (great drive) & have just lobbed into Hermansberg before going to palm valley, & unexpectedly found we had reception. It's possible we *may* get reception at small communities between here & Newman, WA, but I wont hold my breath.
Since the last blog entry we camped a night alongside the Hugh River (dry) in the West Macs. It was even colder! Water pipes in the Patrol froze solid & tool trays in the under canopy compartment froze onto the aluminium & couldn't be got out for an hour or so after the sun was on the car. (Was warm enough in the Tvan though). Found the wadding from an old sleeping bag alongside a track down to boggy hole, cut it into strips & lagged the external pipes using a roll of green masking tape I had. Looks pretty awful, but it stopped the pipes freezing this morning, whilst water left out overnight in a bucket was frozen solid. Surprisingly we got to an altitude of around 630 metres a bit out of Alice which probably explains the cold.
More blog posts. :)
http://cuppa500.com/Blog/2018/07/30/boggy-hole/
http://cuppa500.com/Blog/2018/07/30/palm-valley/
http://cuppa500.com/Blog/2018/07/30/...junction-road/
http://cuppa500.com/Blog/2018/07/30/...national-park/
Posting several at once whilst we have internet in Newman. Spent last night out at Kalgans Pool, just north of Newman. Will try to post video of the water crossings if youtube plays ball.