Three hundred and eighty million years ago, in the Devonian period, Australia was busy building it’s first barrier reef. But this was over in the Northwest of the country, not on the east coast. At the time, the seabed was falling away and the sea was getting deeper, but at a rate that was, Read More
After the isolation of our time at Charnley River Station, we headed off to explore some of the more popular places on the Gibb River Road. Having been greeted by the very enthusiastic Barry and Jeanette, I was somewhat disappointed with how tightly we had to squeeze Bruce into the Silent Grove campsite. But, Read More
After ten full on days and well over 2000 km in Tarquin, our hired luxury motorhome, we were relieved to get to Cairns for a good wash and a bit of a rest. We had no real plans, but knew that we couldn’t leave without getting the kids out onto the Great Barrier Reef, Read More
Australia is enormous. Not just big. But off the scale huge. I’ve always thought that it’s quite a long way to Nanna’s house in North Wales from our house near Portsmouth on the south coast of England. But Australians would consider driving that distance to get to the shops. We’d landed on the biggest, Read More
Singapore was probably our most “stop gap” destination so far. We didn’t really have it on our list of places to visit, but a brief stopover in the city state was the most cost effective way of travelling between Malaysia and Australia – especially as our good friend Ryan spanked a bunch of hotel, Read More
A Smug Monday post by Sam (aged 11) and Evan (aged 9) That morning the friends were woken by the stone they were sleeping under shaking. Sam stuck his head out and saw a gigantic foot slamming forcefully into the rock ahead. Then an idea struck like a fork of lightning. He jumped onto, Read More
The friends journeyed for another two hours, by which time, the landscape was just boulders. There were no trees here, nor was there any grass. Just rocks. Rocks everywhere. All you could see were rocks. They snook passed the final human checkpoint and laughed at the stupid human vegetable lovers fumble about with their, Read More
Half way up the mountain, Spam was starting to feel bored. “I’d prefer to fight the next vegetable demon, rather than being this bored”, he said to himself. Passing all of these tropical trees, with legs aching, feet feeling like they’d been run over and generally felling tired all over, it was boring stuff, Read More
The next day, after sleeping in the parked bus’s hold, they headed off, and marched past all the tourists spending their money on guides to take them to the top of the mountain, and jumped onto the roof of a minibus as it sped off towards the Timphon Gate. As they hopped off the, Read More
Following our epic Mount Kinabalu adventure, Sam and Evan have been writing a story. Aided by their dad’s amazing typing skills, they have created a masterpiece! Introducing…… Kinabalu Vegetable Killers – The Adventures of a Ground Squirrel and a Pigmy Rat! Brace yourselves….. It was a fine sunny morning when Evan the pygmy, Read More