Coates 15 Day Gibson Desert Trip Alice to Perth June 2023
Wednesday 14 June. Day 1. Our pick up was 7:15 and we had left Alice by 8. Drive north along the bitumen Tanami Road till the dirt of Papunya Road - very badly corrugated. Very disorienting and very hard to hear anything inside the car. Lunch at Papunya. Continued driving...
Trip to Centre Between Coates Trips June 2023
Monday 5 June. Breakfast at Stumps. A day in Alice buying supplies for the next few days. Bought Hirudoid for that painful brushing from faceplant yesterday. A visit to the Red Kangaroo Bookshop - purchases mailed. Todd Mall looks empty. Synced all photos to iCloud so now...
Coates 12 Day Centre Trip Alice to Alice May-June 2023
Prep. We began our planning for these trips immediately after our Karlamilyi Trip last year. As soon as they became available this year, we booked, planned and booked flights, accommodation and car. We planned to fly to Alice via Melbourne the day before the first tour,...
Kossi Trip Xmas 2022
We’ve now returned from our 10 days in the Snowies. We were camped at Sawpit Creek which turned out to be an excellent campsite for us. Very quiet until the hordes arrived on Boxing Day. We got back Tuesday. The weather for us was of good extremes. It had snowed a couple...
Coates 15 day Tour to Karlamlyi
I've put the simplified Tectonic Geological Map at the top because Geology determines landforms, soil types and vegetation. Our trip took us north from Perth in the SW roughly in a diagonal line to the Rudall Province just a bit north of the centre of the map. We therefore...
WA Trip Sept 2022 Karlamilyi
This trip was to North East Western Australia to the large Karlamilyi National Park which is just east of Marble Bar. So it is just east of the Pilbara. The Canning Stock Route runs just the the west of the park. We are travelling with Coates Wildlife Tours in small Toyota...
Road Trip Queensland 2022 four
Day 39. Sunday 12 June 2022. A day that almost worked to clockwork. Up at 7am, packed and out of our room at Coral Tree Inn by 9:30am. At 10am our pick up was right on time and we arrived at our van storage place a few minutes later. (Pioneer Airport Car Storage 198...
Queensland Road Tip 2022 – Cape York Tour
Day 24. Tour 1. Saturday 28 May 2022. Alarm at 5:40am. Pick up from Coral Tree Inn by limo bus service at 6:40am. Driven to our departure point in a light industrial area near where we left the van yesterday. Tour departed about 8am. Drive up along coast towards Port...
Road Trip Queensland 2022 – Two
Day 11. Sunday 15 May 2022. Beautiful sunny day. Drove 333km from Ayr to Kurrimine Beach where we will be for 5 nights. All the flood drama is behind us. At Kurrimine we are on a site that is next to the beach - which is many kilometres long. Our drive north from Ayr was...
Road Trip Queensland 2022
Preparation. This trip has been in preparation for three years. Each attempt was tackled by COVID and we dropped it. Our plan hinges around a Tour to Cape York with Cape York Tours. We depart from and return to Cairns. We will have a couple of weeks just south of Cairns...
Zone Diet. It Works.
In mid January 22, my medico told me to lose weight. I was 101 kg at that time. In early May 22 I am now 87kg. I have lost 14 kg in 14 weeks. I has come off my gut which has decreased by 12cm. What did I do? I followed Barry Sears Zone Diet method. What is that? Zone Diet...
December Cycling Trip to Jindabyne
We've come over to Jindabyne for a few days in late 2021. We will be in the A-van as the Cubby at Discovery Park no longer exists. We arrived on Saturday 18 December and will be here through to 29 December. The NRMA Park is quite good - very clean amenities and a short...