Friday, January 28, 2011

Murray river Queen she no longer goes up the river at the back on deck 2 you can have coffee etc and I think they have over night accommodation it is at Wakerie
Well even a Denning can have a bad day brake lock up on the near side tag axle bugger but was not to bad got it before it caused any damage so it just cost a slab of beer lucky for us
The Cunnumulla fella They have a nice little museum as well
One the way out of Cobar we seen this
sign and as I like Pictures with the name of places had to turn around and set this up
We had to go get supplies so we parked up in a rest area on the way out of Cobar got the little Suzuki of the car trailer and away we went good shopping in Cobar pretty big place
The SS Marion The oldest original paddle steamer on the Murray we were very lucky too have a two hour tour on her we both got to steer and to see and hear the steam engine running was well worth it along love seeing old stuff like this still in use she is parked up at Mannum in South Australia
From the other end of The Whispering wall
The whispering wall near Willamstown in the Adelaide hills they have tried to copy this in other places with out any luck it not much to look at but is awesome the way it works you stand at one end and whisper and you can hear at tho other easy
We were out for the day while parked up at Mt pleasant and when we got back we had these two parked next to us for the night The one on the left is still a coach takes people on tours etc well over 100,000 spent that does not include the man hours and was imported by Reg ansett in 1947 then he copy and built them in Australia  the other is a motor home we had seen the motor home before up in Biggenden QLD Flxible clipper
Old farm house so enjoy  finding gems like this one witch was near Mt Pleasant in the Adelaide hills

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Friday, January 21, 2011

And spare bikes as well
They were on the sprint awesome to see
This guy was way in front of the pack you can just see the 2nd blokes handle bar
Lots of towns the tour went thru had bikes and things done like these two made out of corrugated iron and welcome signs it was a festive feel to the hole tour
Close up of one of the team cars they looked good all together
Promo cars and team cars they  show the team colours they all stopped and gave stuff out 
This was my favorite promo car I think all Roo's should ride bikes they look good :)
One of the promo cars on the tour They all give free gifts away from stress balls, caps, hats, key rings, drink bottles all types of things we seen them at Gumeracha on the 21-1-2011
South Australian police car in front of he promo cars at the tour down under

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Coming of f the ferry at Manum S.A did not know how close I was getting hung up on the spare tyre till I looked at this Photo not much distance from tyre and road all the marks on the windscreen are grass hoppers they were so bad took ages too get them all off
Sue says this is as close I will come to having a house boat for some time too come :)

Overland Corner again maybe 2nd time

The other time we were at Overland corner we was not alone .Good night had by all we had  a fire and a few drinks :)
Parked up having coffee ( Yes Coffee to early for happy hour ) plus we had more drive time together as well we were on the front beach at lake Bonny Barmera to stay at overland corner

Overland Corner Pub

Got some old stuff out in the beer garden of Overland corner pub the hole place is like a little museum got some great old stuff in side as well Like getting photo's of horse drawn and bullock Wagons etc
Looking from the overland corner pub up too our motorhome we do like this spot plus it is a free spot as well...We like them free camps
Got this Photo right hand side of the wall the level of the water in the 1956 flood
As the sign shows pretty old pub
The pub at overland corner yes we did have a beer :)

Shot of the pub from the gravel pit

One spot we have stayed at twice now Overland corner On the Murray river near Barmera plus it on a gravel bed  it is above overland corner Pub as well
Sue is getting into driving as well , Witch is very handy ya never know when ya way out in the middle of the never never so to speak

Saturday, January 15, 2011

This is part of the interment camp at loveday were they put Italians Germans etc in world war 2 like finding old builds and houses as we get around this awesome country
This is taken from inside the ruin of the loveday interment camp looking Thu the window at the mallee scrub were our house sit was Like to try and frame some pictures
The Murray princess the first time we saw her she took our breath away we knew she was big but we were shocked at how big she was we spent a few days chasing her along the Murray she came up river for dry dock the first time she had been out of the water in five years
This was one of the goanna's at our house sit at loveday it was he small one never got a photo of the big one but they both put a scare in us when you walk around the corner or some thing moves as you walk past a flower bed
The back of our Denning it was just plain white so we got this bit of art work done we think it come up rather well We were thinking along the lines of Motorised  swaggies but that is a Slim Dusty song and got thinking we my get in trouble if we used that
The two partners in crime S.C Name because she was born in Scotville and lived in Collinsville Tumbi the cat Tumbi name because he was born in Tumbi Umbi
This was taken at the house sit we did at Loveday near Barmera we were on 85 acers of mallee scrub it was lonley at times ( nobody to have happy hour with ) but we got use to it, and we got some things done to our motor home that we could only do if we were pulled up like this plus after 3months we got our new drive tyres as well so it really worked out well for us. We are going to look into doing some more of this house sitting as this was our 2nd house sit so it good  to be able to pull up and save some monies etc then move on again 
Sue and I had a trip to Adelaide Zoo well we never knew they had Meercats we had never seen them live before what a awesome critters we fell in love with these straight off. We spent so much time sitting watching them, then feed time come watching the mums trying to teach the baby ones to eat awesome , We have made up our minds to go back to the zoo to spend some more time with these guys and we hope to get some better Photos of the panda's as well Wang wang and Funi 
This was taken near Morgan On the Murray seen this house boat coming along so I stopped the car crabbed the camera and I was off running Sue was thinking I had gone nuts but I saw the river gums and tried to frame the picture by the time I got there to line it all up only had one shot I think it sort off worked I was happy more time would have been nice ............... We think this would be a nice way to live when we get sick of living in a bus   
This Photo was taken in Victoria near Rushworth I so had to stop and go back and take the Photo we use it as a screen saver on our computer

Thursday, January 13, 2011

up the centre

Most people will know were this Photo come from as most motor homers and caravans try to line up for a photo of the blower on top of their rig

green lakes

We are no longer at Green lakes that is were the photo  was taken and the photo we turned in to cards to swap with people we meet while we are out and about, bit hard to see in this Photo but you can just make out our cat Tumbi under the bus