Lake Eyre Trip, Day 2: We meet our tour group and set off north

Keen to get started on our adventure, we got down to the hotel foyer at 9am to check out and be ready for Outback Spirit’s 9.30am pick-up, only to find three others – identified by their Outback Spirit name-tags – already there. Turns out one of them thought the pick up was 8.30am! They had … Read more

Lake Eyre Trip, Day 1: To Adelaide we go

We woke to the promised, but rare this autumn, rainy day. And, unusually for us, we were able to be leisurely about our departure preparations, as our first flight wasn’t until 12:50pm. It’s Mothers Day of course. By the way, where do YOU put the apostrophe? One mother’s day, multiple mothers’, or can we omit … Read more

Packing our bags again …

To all our faithful followers … just a warning that we are heading off again this weekend, so you should see new post notifications appearing in your in-boxes soon (depending, of course, one when we have internet connection, which won’t be always). It’s another short trip, this time to visit Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, bookended by the lovely city … Read more