Marty and I have travelled around Australia. Not in one long drive, but a bit here and a bit there, mostly in Queensland because that is where we live.
We’ve lived in Perth the Capital of Western Australia, but those were pre-blogging and pre-digital days so the photographic proof is sketchy to non-existent. Landing there after nine months overseas we were skint and desperate to find work. Two years later we had accumulated loads of Sandgroper travel memories in our E20 Campervan, which eventually took us on a giant road trip back to Queensland.
On the way home over the top easy going Broome entranced us as did a humid post Tracy Darwin. We felt privileged to see the indigenous rock art at Geike gorge in Western Australia and Katherine Gorge in the Northern Territory.
I’ve lived in Melbourne too, as a teenager and we’ve revisited my old stomping ground of St. Kilda Road and Beach and Prahan markets a couple of times in recent years.
We towed my Dad’s van from Townsville to the Barossa Valley back when our first born was 8 months old. I’d spent a fair bit of time visiting the Clare and Barossa Valleys whilst living in Melbourne and it was exciting to get back there and visit a few wineries and catch up with old friends.
Australia Day 2016 has dawned overcast and rainy in our town which boasts over 300 days of sunshine each year. This is going to be an extra special day and I’m sharing some of my Aussie Instagram favourites to celebrate.
Seagulls under lights night swimming at the Strand #townsvilleshines. Full moon tonight too.
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Over the border into Montenegro and the Bay of Kotor
What a wonderful bunch of memories and photos! Happy Australia day! Ps How did you share your insta photos and captions to your blog?
Hi Jo. We just got home from the day at Paluma. Sent you a message with the instagram info.
It’s such a beautiful country and an honour to now be celebrating as an Australian, love your photo collection. That photo of you coming down the road at Notch Point with the van pretty much sums up what we want to be doing very soon.
Did you become an Aussie this Australia Day Toni? We want to do more trips like Notch Point too!
Gorgeous photos! Happy Belated Australia Day.
We had a blast thanks Anabel. Went road tripping in the rainforest, had a devonshire tea and listed to Triple J’s top 100 countdown 🙂
I absolutely loved seeing all those photographs of my home town, Jan. I think my favourite was the seashells. Where is that church? Wulguru? I can’t place it.
I am very proud of that seashell photo Pinky, so you did well to chose it as your favourite. That is our daughter having collected seashells by the seashore at Balgal. The Church is at Stuart on the right just before going over the hill toward Oak Valley and Mount Isa lol.
Hi Jan
I walked that same stretch of Miami beach yesterday morning before we headed home to Dubbo.
I love QLD, pity it’s so far away.
I’d love to take the caravan there next time for a roadtrip.
We did WA 4 yrs ago and it’s time to set off again.
WA is a place we can’t wait to return to Trish. Miami is a great beach to walk on, it seems like it goes on forever. Marty walked all the way from there to Surfer’s paradise and back again. It took him all day lol.
Happy Australia Day! I’m trying to wrap my head around the vegemite in ice cream idea. Is there caramel in there, too? Wondering because of the Cara- in the name.
Yes Michele, It was caramel which is what I was after. The saltiness of the vegemite compliments the caramel flavour, but it is still weird lol.
I really don’t think anyone could see all of Australia, there is way too much to see and do!
Love your Australia Day pics from Instagram, gorgeous Photos Jan.
These photos are so beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing. Australia just has so much to offer.
Thanks for visiting and commenting Rachel.
Well as an American, I still can’t get behind the vegemite thing. Yuck! 😉 Lovely collection of photos though! We’ve really enjoyed roadtripping around Australia so far and can’t wait to explore some more while we live here.
Vegemite in icecream is a bit of a leap – even for an Aussie. Australia is a great place to roadtrip – plenty of time for reflection in between towns and landmarks 🙂
Lovely Aussie pics Jan.I was missing my home very much on Australia Day. I was somewhere in South East Asia and we did get to celebrate on the ship with fellow Aussies.
That’s great Kathy, there is nothing like finding other Aussies overseas to celebrate with.
Another great read thanks to you Jan! I am always amazed at how you are able to write and make your readers feel that they are just talking to a friend. My favorite part is Nature Photo Challenge Day 6 Collecting Seashells in North Queensland. Keep writing please!