On The Road Again

Once again we’ve hooked our comfy Adventure camper trailer to our old but good P38 Range Rover and hit the road. Another chance to gather ideas for stories and treat my senses to the wonderful sights, sounds and smells of Australia. Spent our first night with old and dear friends Tony and Helen.

Many pages of my book tell of our time with them at Yuendumu in the Tanami desert. They are now living in Kalangadoo in the south east of South Australia.
Tony’s sister Wendy and her husband Gary live on the historic sheep and cattle station Lowan. Gary had lived on the station for some sixty years when Wendy met him in very romantic circumstances.

Gary and his widowed mother were living in three gloomy rooms of the once grand 30 roomed country homestead. The entire house, though not the property itself, had become sadly run down.

Since Wendy’s arrival at Lowan, the whole house has been totally restored to its former glory. In my conversation with them I sensed a dramatic and intriguing history about the place.

My writer’s antenna was picking up on the possibility of a great story.

After leaving Kalangadoo, we headed south east, along The Great Ocean Road and are now camped at Wye River where the Otway rainforest meets the sea. An amazing place to be – rainforest behind us, the sea in front.

We’ll leave here in a couple of days, drive through The Otways, stop at the Barramunga waterfalls and campground, then head to Colac and ultimately (along many dirt roads I hope) to The Grampians.