Photo highlights of this year's 2013 trip.
Site 119 - Riverside CP, Swan Hill.
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A houseboat just passes by.
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Marg 'caught' in her new room.
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Site 164 Apex River Beach CP, Mildura.
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How calm was the Murray. Very glassy.
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Mungo NP - Following our leader.
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Heading back to the carpark.
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Tikalina Station -
Me The fossicker.
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our carpark.
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Marg the fossicking trendsetter. What a team we are!
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Tikalina Station -
fossicking for Kyanite - Ahhh, the scenery.
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Road Conditions sign. We met here at 8am.
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Stations in the area.
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Corona Road, only 53kms of gravel.
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Netallie Rest Area - magic view and more humans.
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Emus are very common and not that afraid.
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White Cliffs - Marg in action.
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White Cliffs - Historic Solar Power Station.
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What a magic sunrise at White Cliffs.
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Little traffic, but we did see a truck.
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Our last rest stop, just 60kms west of Cobar.
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The NewGold Cobar Open Cut mine.
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The Lock and the Weir
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Still no traffic.
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Only 1,728kms until we turn right and head for Cairns.
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We had to stop for this dude to cross the road.
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Sunrise at Warrego Riverside.
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1st rest stop - 58kms north of Bourke.
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Marg's $11 opal ($1 cost of rock $10 to cut and polish).
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1st rest stop - 58kms north of Bourke.
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Yowah - Part of my chunk of gypsum.
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Yowah CP - Our 'silver service' dinner.
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Dave who played with Jethro Tull and Deep Purple.
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Yowah - Our fossicking area.
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Billy's camp had the odd cow in the morning.
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Yowah - Sunset at the Bluff.
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The kangaroo invasion.
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As usual, not much traffic.
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We are so small.
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Opalton Road - Different road surfaces.
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Winton - Milly
(our neighbour) is beautiful.
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My best photo of our rig taken 9th Jul 2008.
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Same spot today, but overcast.
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A panoranic view of McKinlay. Bugger all trees.
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Beautiful views to
Amethyst Castle..
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Lucky that we were authorised.
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A Triple Road Train.
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Burke and Wills Roadhouse.
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Burke Dev Road - Part of the single bitumen.
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Normanton Tourist
Park - The Pool was so refreshing.
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Normanton - Kris the Croc.
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Normanton - Albion Hotel - $4.50 stubby.
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Normanton - Central Hotel - $4.60 stubby.
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Normanton - The Purple Pub - $5.00 stubby.
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Karumba - The Sunset Tavern.
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Karumba - Our 'blurry' lunch. It was still yumma.
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Karumba - The Sunset Tavern beer garden.
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We will be either staying or visiting each of those places.
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It can't be.
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It's the 'world famous' Gulflander in all its glory.
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Views of Lake Belmore,
Croydon, Qld.
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Views from the Gilbert River bridge.
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Agate Creek - Only 79 more kms to go.
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Move your bums.
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We made it.
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Agate Creek - View from the summit of Crystal Hill.
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Part of Ted Elliott Mineral collection held at Georgetown, Qld.
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Part of Ted Elliott Mineral collection held at Georgetown, Qld.
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Part of Ted Elliott Mineral collection held at Georgetown, Qld.
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Crossing Elizabeth Creek - Mt Surprise.
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O'Briens Creek - Marg in action.
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Shift your bum.
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Bedrock Village - site 20.
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Foggy morning at Innot Hot Springs.
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Us on the Internet at Mount Garnet.
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The Windy Hill wind farm.
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Atherton - Views from the Halloran's Hill Lookout.
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Crystal Caves,
Atherton - Marg and the Empress.
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The Crystal caves hotrod.
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Lake Placid CP - Lenny the Lace monitor wandering past us.
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Cairn's Marina -
Paul Allen's MY Octopus - co founder of Microsoft. |
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Marg at Lake Placid.
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Barron Falls - Their big rock catcher.
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Lake Placid - The Oracle.
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Cardwell - This tree was nearly blown over by Cyclone Yasi.
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Marg out the front of the Cardwell bakery.
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The rain clouds on Hinchinbrook Is.
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We carry our own High Voltage power. :)
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Townsville - Parts of the Ross River path.
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One of the nice 'shacks' along the
Ross river.
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Townsville - Beware of the 'snapping lizards'.
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Townsville - The Sugar shaker.
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Townsville - The Strand water fun park.
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Townsville - Maggie Island across the water.
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Townsville - Part of The Strand.
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Townsville - Part of The Strand.
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Townsville - Marg at Juliette's Gelateria eating her ice-cream.
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Approaching Maggie Island.
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Marg on the ferry.
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Maggie Island tour - Marg getting ready.
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One of the fish.
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Low tide at Picnic Bay.
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The Pink Barbi on Maggie Island. |
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The Marlin Bar at Horseshoe Bay.
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The view from Juliette's.
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Billabong
Sanctuary - Tonka, the star of the Wombat show.
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Marg in her element feeding the roos.(notice the joey in the pouch)
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Me with Cyril's bigger brother.
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I think this is a Lily, they are everywhere in the Ross River.
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Townsville and Maggie Island.
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Marg at Willy Wash.
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Sapphire - Our life style is pretty tough, but we are managing. Just!
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Mount Hay Fossicking area.
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Sugar Cane train near Childers.
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It was foggy from Bundy to Gympie, then it lifted.
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Dicky Beach - Sunrise from the foot bridge.
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Dicky Beach is in the distance.
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Dicky Beach - It's raining.
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Looking back at the
Cape Cartwright Lighthouse.
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Mooloolaba - The weekday surfer.
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I nearly rode over this guy.
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Isn't George beautiful?
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Welcome to Southport. Our 1st morning. How nice is it?
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View from Broadwater Parklands southward.
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View from The Narrows southward.
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Surfers sign.
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Surfers beach.
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Friendly cops on patrol.
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Broadwater - This was late afternoon at our camp. Beautiful.
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Cafe Rockpool - My coffee.
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Southport Workers
Club - My mixed grill and Marg's garlic prawwns.
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Broadwater Tourist
Club - Today's magnificent sunrise.
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Aquaduck leaving the water.
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Look straight ahead.
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A whale off the Spit.
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The Light Rail bridge over the Nerang river has now met.
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The dolphins off the Spit.
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Neil and Annabel and their boat. Thanks for the ride. We loved it.
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This humpback was about 300 meters off the Spit.
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The Jet Boat is still operating. We rode this one 3 years ago.
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The big sandcastle near the Spit.
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The crane ready to built the Shared path over the Nerang river.
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The wind surfers having a ball out the front of our site.
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The Commonwealth Games countdown timer.
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Southport YC - Eclipse in the background.
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Clive Palmer's shack (in the middle)
on Sovreign Island.
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Broadwater Tourist Park - Our neighbours have left us.
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The Cops are on Patrol. It's good to see their presence.
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It does rain in Paradise.
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The sign just over Nerang river, where I turn left.
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This sign reminds me of our beloved "Lazza the Lab".
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Constructing the Shared path over the Nerang river.
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The Mother's club in action.
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Cavill Mall looking towards the beach.
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Looking South - Main St of GI.
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Glen Innes Town hall.
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3 beautiful calves, they did move. Eventually.
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Emmaville Mining Museum.
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A 3 tonne rock of Calcite, Not Marg, the rock.
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Some of the collections.
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These guys were being walked.
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Gowan Rest Area with Lindsay Bros truck.
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Parked at the rear of the Jerilderie Bakery.
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Jerilderie - The mighty Navara is with the BIG Boys.
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We were surrounded by trucks. Welcoming us back to Melbourne.
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The END.
Until 2014's trip back to Queensland.
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