Previously: Quilpie to Birdsville. ??   Have you ever been somewhere so fantastical that it almost didn’t seem real? This is Carcoory in outback Queensland, an old cattle property that was developed in the 1870s. There’s not much left of the old homestead that sits on the hill overlooking the creek, but it wasn’t the ruins…

Previously: 30 days off-grid | Pub in Adavale. ? There are two ways to get from Adavale to Quilpie, the red road or the black road. I didn’t find out why they were named as such but I nonetheless chose the red road. Quilpie Arriving in Quilpie, population 574, was a momentous occasion. It was the biggest town…

?   .. the bartender says, ‘What will it be?’ The cat says, ‘A shot of milk, full cream.’ The bartender pours the cat the drink. The cat slowly pushes the shot off the table. ‘Another!’ There were a few things I was craving after our 30 day off grid adventure – a shower, a…

  [ Read Part 1 here ] Recap: We had just woken up from an afternoon nap, a little disorientated, in the middle of outback Queensland on the start of our 30 day off-grid adventure. No phone reception, no internet just a van laden with snacks and a sleepy little adventure cat. * * *…

Spending summer back in Tasmania I had time to think about our plans for the next year. Looking at a map of Australia it was hard to make decisions about where we would go. I had become accustomed to planning as far as a few days away and it was a system that worked well.…

  Can you believe it? Three years on the road around Australia! Travelling with Willow the little black adventure cat sure has been an experience. I’ve tried to condense our whole trip down to a one minute video. I hope you enjoy it.

I can hardly believe that it was 3 years ago when Willow and I first left our home town in our little campervan. It was in May 2015 we travelled to Melbourne on the ferry to start our adventure around Australia. That’s over a thousand nights on the road! Though we returned to Tasmania in…