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5th wheel travels
Downunder

With Louisa, Tony and Snowy

Aussie flag Aussie flag

OUR 5TH WHEEL IS SOLD


taking off with our 5th wheel

This my journal of our travels in our new 5th wheel. Starting in Melbourne Victoria, then going right around Australia, and eventually Tasmania and New Zealand.

Both Tony and I are retired now and free to join that happy band of grey haired wanderers traveling around this vast, beautiful country of ours - Australia downunder.

Snowy, our much loved westie-maltese X is also with us. She loves traveling in the car and happily sits, sleeps and looks out the window, safely strapped in her harness on the back seat.

We have been planning this long trip for years now and finally after a few hiccups, for example, our youngest child (now 20) not quite ready for us to go off and travel so far away - we were on our way in our new RV.

Have never had a caravan or trailer before, so it will be a fun???!!! learning experience for us.

We bought our 5th wheeler at Ballarat, Victoria from a very friendly company. The guys were very helpful and nothing was too much trouble. They changed a few things around for us, and installed my lovely 'Dometic' 3kg capacity washing machine. Also attached the hitch onto the truck.

We had been looking around at places to buy for a few years. The American caravan sites on the internet were great, I used to look at them for hours. There were so many different models and designs to get ideas.

When we chose where to buy, we made many trips up from Melbourne over 2 years until we were ready.

Follow our adventures in the following pages, updates as they happen.

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Louisa Stockill
Melbourne, Australia
January 2007

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5th wheel travels downunder
A regularly updated blog of our trip around Australia

Dog Blog - Part 1
Dog Blog 1.Follow the adventures of Snowy the dog - our adorable Westy as she shares her doggy adventures on her 5Th Wheel RV Caravan travels around Australia.

Map Australia
Map Australia to accompany site subject

5th wheel travels downunder preparations
Preparations. The 5th wheel is going to be our home for some years and we took our time choosing one suitable for our needs.

Country Victoria
country Victoria. DAY 1 17 / 01 / 07 Wednesday. WE ARE OFF AT LAST!!!! WEEK 1 : 38 deg : VERY HOT - VERY HUMID!!!! : Overcast day.

Temora
Temora DAY 15 Wednesday 31 Jan 07 Drove up toTemoracalled in to get caravan inspection - the inspector and his wife were lovely people, made us a cuppa and had a jolly chat.

Surfers Paradise
Surfers Paradise DAY 77 Wednesday: 4 April. Gold Coast: Drove past Byron Bay, Tweed Heads and Coolangatta

Queensland - Heading Inland
Queensland. DAY 177 Monday 16 July Left Black River and drove inland on the Flinders Highway through Charters Towers, and stopped overnight at a camping site half way between Charters and Hughenden.

Barringun NSW
Barringun.DAY 197 Sunday 5 August. Over the NSW border into Barringun.Stayed here overnight at the Bush Tucker Inn Caravan Park. This great place was right out in the middle of nowhere.There was th

Bendigo
Bendigo.DAY 222 Thursday 30 August WEEK 32 Back in Victoria again. After 21,000 + kilometers later and 8 months of fun traveling behind us. Our Rockwood 5th wheel RV - caravan has been a very comforta

Melbourne
Melbourne. Here we are now in Melbourne for a couple of months and Xmas with the family.

South Australia - W.A here we come!
South Australia - W.A. here we come. Day 349 Week 50- 5th Wheel Travels are on the move again. This leg of our journeys will take us across Victoria, South Australia and on to W.A.

Western Australia
Western Australia.Day 359 Monday 14 January. Another long drive to Eucla, over 8 hours again. On the way we saw a poor specimen of a dingo at one of the petrol stops.

RV Campgrounds
RV Campgrounds. A description of the places where we have stayed. This includes the past 9 months, the first leg of our 5th Wheel travels journey.

Video clips of our travels
Video clips of our travels. As we travel around Australia, we take lots of pictures - and a video clip here and there.

Travel Photos 1 - Agnes Water - Town of 1770
Travel Photos. Agnes Water - Town of 1770 Queensland Australia.

Index A - Z
Index . All the places we have visited - Listed A - Z on the 1st leg of our 5th wheel travels around Aussie.

5thWheel Travels - Part 1
5thWheel Travels - Summary.Here we are, 31,000+ kilometers later and over 8 months of fun traveling behind us. I could not have imagined what a great time we would have, when we first headed off. We

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Travel Photos - Barron Falls Kuranda - Josephine Falls - Queensland
Travel Photos,5th Wheel travels Australia,Barron falls Kuranda,Josephine Falls Cairns,

Kalbarri 13
Kalbarri 13 -Travel Expenses - KALBARRI to MELBOURNE - August 2008


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