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Melbourne to Port Lincoln, Eyre Peninsula

So here we are, on the road again. I have to keep pinching myself that it’s actually happening. For those of you new to our blog, it was 2013 when we decided to travel around Australia in a caravan. 

Two years of preparation later (first had to buy a van having never owned one before) we headed up the east coast along the ‘great Aussie long paddock’ on Boxing Day 2015. 

In Port Douglas, far North Queensland, my retina decided to detach itself for no good reason at all. Thus our trip was abandoned. 

18 months and 6 lots of eye surgery later (I now have two extremely well attached retinas) and we were ready to complete the circumnavigation after Christmas 2016. This time toward the west coast. We bought a new car, a Ranger, for better towing, and were ready to head off after Christmas 2016. Christmas Eve our house burnt down.

Two years and a lot of stress and heart ache later our house is complete and we are on the road again. 

We could not have got here with out our amazing support team (family, friends and the best neighbours in the world ). Thank you all for helping us get back on our feet and back on the road, we are so lucky to have you in our lives.

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Bendigo, Vic

Easter in Bendigo is a must. Carnivals, Chinese dragons, Scottish bagpipe band, kilts and all…. yes there is a story to that, which you will need to visit the Chinese museum to read about.  Then there is the art gallery and don’t forget to visit the book store ‘Book This’ my most favourite place of all. The caravan parks were booked out but we managed to get a spot with power and water at the Bendgo Show grounds. The down side was that they had just had a gymkhana of some kind. The horses had all gone but their memories remained in one very BIG pile right next to the camp area. The flies were plentiful. However, on a positive note, we were  able to walk over to the Sunday market held in the showgrounds..

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