🧐Can you see us on the top of Tyler Pass? And can you see that crater behind us? Swipe to see the crater 👈🏼 that was caused by a comet ☄️ striking the earth millions of years ago. Our planet is fascinating when you take the time to explore it! 🌏
The Dreamtime story of Tnorala is a little different to that of the comet crashing to earth, blasting a crater roughly 20km across.
Legend says that while stars danced in the Milky Way, a child fell out of his cradle to earth and was lost to its parents, the morning and evening stars, who still search for their baby to this day.
#gossebluff #gossebluffcrater #crater #comet #meteorite #craters #adu #adugoesoutback #adunt #aussiedestinationsunknown
When it comes to choosing a caravan there are so many things to consider, so many manufacturers to investigate and so many mistakes that are all too easy to make. How do we know this? Because this is not our first caravan and it wasn’t an easy road that led us to the very happy place that we are in right now.
1. What caravan have you got or do you want, and what is behind that decision?
2. What are 3 things you wish you’d known before you bought your caravan?
So many questions with answers that can potentially be very insightful! 😁👇🏼
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Ride as much or as little as you like, hit the long trails or the short ones, the blacks or the blues … just ride!✌🏼
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😍 One of Tassie’s most beautiful free camps is this one - the King William Campground near Derwent Bridge.
It’s an epic little camp (free with a National Parks Pass) right on the river.
Access is a bit tight and our advice is if you have a large set up to walk it first to make sure you can fit/turn around) but once you’re in - the sites are wide open and waiting to welcome you 😍
You’ll find this in episode 4 of ADU TOURS TASSIE on YouTube. Link is in our bio 🙌🏼
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🍿 🎥 Kings Canyon as you’ve never seen it before!! Why? Because it’s us 🥴😆
‼️New episode now up‼️
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Make sure you watch the to the end for an awesome surprise 🎶 In episode 15 we leave Uluru and make our way to the Kings Canyon/Mereenie area. We:
▪️Stop at Kings Creek Station for fuel and a dromedary burger 🐪
▪️Stop on top of the Morris Pass at the
▪️Stunning Ben Roarty Lookout free camp/rest stop 🔥
▪️Explore the magnificent Kings Canyon 😍
▪️Hear a magical surprise on our hike🎤
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We thought it was about time we re-introduce ourselves! 👋🏼😁
US - Miriam + Chris. We met almost 11 years ago on RSVP.com.au. Yep. The dating site! ♥️ When Miriam changed her location from Hobart to the Gold Coast, Chris jumped on board and the rest, as they say, is history!
Together we have been working towards our dream of living and working on the road for many years. What was a part time passion project has turned into a full time job and dream come true. Please note that I said JOB and not holiday! We spend more hours working now, than before we hit the road full time. But we aren’t complaining - we have the best office in the world!
CHRIS. Chris was raised in South East QLD and spent most of his childhood surfing and camping on the Gold Coast beaches and sand islands, and travelling up to North QLD to visit his family in Cairns. 🌴
There are many old family photographs of Chris with his cousins out on the reef and tropical islands, fishing, boating, swimming, camping and exploring – it really is in his blood! While Chris was born here in Australia, most of his family are Mauritian and still speak Creole.
🚲 Chris comes from a background of extreme sports like motocross, mountain biking and stand up jet-skiing and he has a long list of previously broken bones to prove it! He has owned and run a signage and graphics company for many years, and now runs it from the road.
🧘🏼♀️ MIRIAM is a Lifestyle Coach, Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Coach and is interested in all things holistic and healthy! 🥑 She has owned her business MiMFiT for over 20 years and now runs it online. 💻
Miriam was born in Launceston, Tasmania and moved overseas when she was 8. She spent her childhood years as a missionary kid in Costa Rica, the Amazon Jungle and the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. 🏔
She returned to Launceston where she stayed for a while before moving to Adelaide and then Hobart and then onto South East QLD where she lived for 10 years. 🏝
So there you go! That’s us! Got any questions? Hit us up in the comments 😁🙌🏼
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How important is being able to free camp or go off road to you? Does it play a part in what caravan/tow rig you choose? 🤔
Being fully off road and set up to free camp for days and weeks on end was the best decision we ever made! 🙌🏼 Sure we had great times in all of our other setups, but what we have now has made all aspects of caravanning and touring easier and less stressful.
We often find that the best spots are hard to get to and remote with no drinking water nearby.
Both of our Enerdrive lithium battery systems (in the Chevy and caravan) keep us powering along using appliances like our coffee machine, thermomix, air fryer, induction cooktop while we are in the middle of nowhere (or a beautiful somewhere!). We have over 550 litres of water on board including the 180L in the Chevy, and enough pantry space to store food for weeks!
We also have on board air thanks to @airbagmansuspension to adjust our tyre pressures as necessary. Very handy as we are quite often nowhere near a servo!
We love our Chevy with @gcitraytec canopy and our @titaniumcaravans … but just you wait to see what we have in store with our new caravan! The build kicks off next week and we can’t wait 😁 More offroad and more off the grid? Maybe! You’ll just have to wait and see. What do you think we will be doing in our next van?
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‼️NEW YT RED CENTRE EPISODE LAUNCHES TONIGHT!‼️
Our Merida eMTB’s are the BEST exploring machines! We rode around the base of Uluru twice and loved every second of it.
We rode through the mud, stopped to check out all the beautiful waterholes that were full to the brim thanks to the recent rains, and yes, I fell off. What would a ride be without me stacking it? And yes, Chris captured it so it will be in the Uluru YouTube episode 🤦🏼♀️ He calls me Crash Bandicoot now! 😂
Have you been to Uluru? Did you climb it? Walk around it? Ride around it? What did you think?
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It’s been so long since we’ve seen the ocean 🥺 We love the outback but can’t wait to get the salt water back in our hair! 🌊
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Blue Derby after the rain means waterfalls and rivers that are flowing hard! I found this snap today when I was hunting for something else 😁Blue Derby has to be our favourite place to ride - we can’t wait to get back there 🤙🏼
Ps. Have you taken a Merida e160 for a test ride yet? If not - get onto it! They’re the best way to ride further and see more cool stuff 🙌🏼
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👻 Arltunga would have to be the most remote ghost town we’ve taken the time to explore properly - check out the first image. I even explored inside stuff 😅
Way out in the East MacDonnell Ranges, we’ll show you all that remains of what was one of the most significant European settlements in Central Australia. That, plus Chris locks me in a cell, won’t stop playing with his new favourite toy, and smacks his head on the roof of the Joker mine 😂
We also explore the insanely, beautifully, breathtakingly huge Ruby Gap 😁🤙🏼
Annnd … we see a car with headlights coming towards us that never passes us. In the dark. Isolated. In the outback. Yes. The evil laugh and the light blue F150 jokes were flying between Greg & Chris over the UHF! Me? Well. I was a little unsettled to say the least. And then … well, you’ll have to watch and see why I freaked the heck out!! 😱 Swipe to see my ‘I’ve just seen murderers’ face 😆🤦🏼♀️
The next episode of ADU Goes Outback launches tonight at 7pm Melbourne time. Link to our YouTube channel is in our bio 😁
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Turquoise … the colour of summer. Shame it’s the middle of winter right now 😅
Don’t you just love the turquoise MaxTrax? Just in time for Father’s Day🙌🏼 Check out our latest blog post for other awesome gift ideas for dad! Link in bio 😁
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COMPETITION NOW CLOSED. Congrats to @justin_worden_ and @yvon.thomassen 🔥 Win 2 x $250 Caravan RV Camping Gift Vouchers! We have partnered up with Caravan RV Camping this Father's Day, and you could win 😁🙌🏼
Entry is easy. Simply click the link in our bio, fill out your details (on the @caravanrvcamping website) where asked, and wait!
Of course, we would love it if you could like this post and leave us a comment. What would you buy if you won? Tag a few mates you think would like to win too! Good luck! 😁 For conditions and entry details, please see website.
Competition ends 23rd August 2021 at 9am.
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This is just one of the incredible ’rest stops’ on Namatjira Drive in the West MacDonnell Ranges (just outside Alice Springs).
Point Howard lookout is free and allows you to soak up the outback views for 24 hours before moving onto your next magnificent campsite. It even has rubbish bins - a rarity out this way😍
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⛪️ When you think of a church you might picture a quiet place with a cross, stained glass windows, a baptismal & maybe even incredible architecture. What probably won’t enter your mind is an underground place of worship in the middle of the outback! 😍
As we approached in the Chevy, we thought The Church of Saint Elijah the Prophet that was built in Coober Pedy by Serbs who settled there as opal miners back in 1993, was closed. We crept up to the door and slowly peeked inside. It was open! And - there was a honesty box right beside it.
We went back to the car, grabbed our coins & made our way down the carpeted ramp through what felt like a tunnel, following the sound of low chanting.
We found ourselves alone in the most incredible place, overcome by feelings of reverence, calm and intrigue. It almost felt wrong to be there for any reason other than to worship, so I said a prayer 🙏🏼 as I walked over to the candle that was burning in a pedestal filled with sand. The crackling & popping sounds, synchronised with the dancing flame and the chanting 🕯
This church has frescoes that are cut in the rocks, not painted, and the roof resembles that of a ballroom with large scallops & a gorgeous pattern weaving its way through the sandstone. The iconostasis has been painted on the glass & is backlit. On the balcony there is what seems to be a baptismal, in the shape of a cross, set into the floor & incredibly beautiful stained glass windows. Intricate rock-wall carvings & statues of saints also adorn the church.
The whole church complex encompasses not only a church, & a church hall but also a parish house & a church school – all underground.
As we were leaving we could hear music pumping & the sounds of men laughing & chatting together so we went and said hi 😁The owners were preparing for a huge party that weekend & were stocking the bar & preparing the venue next to the church. But that’s a story for another day.
#cooberpedy #undergroundchurch #serbianchurch #serbianorthodox #church #beautifulchurch #adu #adugoesoutback #adusa #southaustralia #travel #travelaustralia #caravanningaustralia #fulltimetravel #placeofworship #churchflow #aussiedestinationsunknown
Mounds Springs aka ‘The Bubbler’ (👈🏼swipe to see it bubbling!) and Blanche Cup Mound Spring we’re such a fun stop towards the end of our Oodnadatta Track adventure😁
It felt like we were on the moon, which was not uncommon for us over the past few months!
This unique and barren looking landscape dotted with these bubbling mound springs is something everyone has to experience at least once 😍
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COMPETITION NOW CLOSED. Congratulations to @grablifebythegourlays 😁
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🏆 Win a DOMETIC OUTDOOR SURVIVAL KIT 🏆
What’s in this kit? Awesome @dometic gear! Scroll down for HOW TO ENTER👇🏼👇🏼
In the kit:
1 x 660 ml thermo bottle in Mango
1 x 600 ml thermo tumbler in Mango
1 x bottle open
1 x multi tool thing (😅)
1 x torch
1 x stubby holder
HOW TO ENTER:
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Don't forget that you can always use our code ADUCREW for a discount off outdoor gear on the Dometic website (yes, this includes the ridiculously comfy Firenze chairs!)🤙🏼
🗓 Competition ends 12pm on Wednesday Aug 19
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Coward Springs is a gorgeous spot on The Oodnadatta Track in SA to spend a night or two 😍This thermal spa is 29C, much warmer than the 6C ambient temp and people have been bathing here since the Ghan began!
The campground is lovely, the museum is great and like most places out here, Coward Springs is filled with history of the Old Ghan.
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📹 TONIGHT - FINALLY!! It’s live 😁 Swipe for teaser 📹
🏁The Finke Desert Race Part 1
🏁 Scrutineering 🏁 Prologue
☀️ Sunsets on Rocky Hilltops
🏜 Alice Springs
👉🏼 LINK TO YOUTUBE IN BIO👈🏼
In episode 10 it’s time for the Finke Desert Race!!! Plus … you get to meet everybody 😁
We also do this 👇🏼
▪️Camp at RACE HQ aka Rocky Hill Table Grape Farm 🍇
▪️Get as many 4x4’s as we can up the hill for sunset 🌅
▪️Check out Alice Springs 👋🏼
▪️Meet all our mates and check out the race bikes/buggies/trucks at scrutineering 🏎🏍
▪️Cheer the teams on at Prologue 🏁
▪️Drive the worst dirt road we’ve ever been on to the 160 km mark where we 🥴
▪️Camp in the rooftop right beside the race track ⛺️
▪️Watch the sunset from a dusty outback paradise 🏜
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Lake Cadibarrawirracanna - filled with magic 🪄 and random stuff! We can’t wait to show you - it’s going to be a crazy weird fun YouTube episode 😁
This campsite is right up there with our fav free camps ever! 😍
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Algebuckina Bridge looming outside our windows soaked in the silver light of the moon is a sight we will never forget 🌙😍 Almost as impressive as the sun setting over the Neales River behind this nearly 600 metre long bridge, made from Victorian-era wrought iron!
This is the largest single bridge in South Australia and one of the few bridges on the railways that was never impacted by floodwaters 🙌🏼
📍This mammoth piece of 19th century engineering sits on a disused railway, not far from William Creek on the Oodnadatta Track in South Australia.
Most of the Old Ghan tracks have been ripped up, but many remnants remain, and we think this one has to be the most impressive 😁
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Talk about jagging the shot! Swipe to see what we mean 👈🏼😍
This is definitely something you don’t see everyday!
UPDATE - this is actually #johnarthurelliott who is ‘learning all I can about outback survival as I walk from Qld to WA in an epic adventure with 4 camels and a dog.’ Say what?! What an absolute legend! 🙌🏼
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Like Chris’s socks? Swipe to see how THAT happened 😂
Lake Cadibarrawirracanna - say that 5 times over 🤪
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Caption this 😁👇🏼
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Talk about a random way to end our epic adventures along the Oodnadatta Track 🤪 ‘Rust in Peace’ … retired mechanic now artist Robin Cooke has quite the sense of humour!
This is the brilliantly weird Mutonia Sculpture Park in Alberrie Creek, 30 km west from Marree along the Oodnadatta track in South Australia. It used to be a railway siding on the Old Ghan line but no trains live here any more. Nope - this is all about planes. And a bus, a car, a windmill, a dragonfly … ok. It has lots of stuff - just no trains that we could see.
We parked up and headed off exploring the creative randomness that was all over the place. And while we were there, numerous others pulled up, had a quick look at few pieces of art near the gate then left!
What? Nooooo! Just keep walking - at least until you get to the Love Bus (named by Chris♥️). It has ‘GHAN’ HOVER BUS SERVICE painted on the side and a rabbits head, amongst other things, inside.
Plane Henge (2 planes plonked on their tales), the Time Tree, a Windmill Flower, a lady bug, and plenty of other artistic bizarreness is waiting for you when you head off on your own Oodnadatta adventure! 👋🏼😁
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What an adventure we’ve had traveling the ‘most historic track in Australia’! 🤙🏼
Since we left Alice Springs five and a half weeks ago, we have bounced our way along 2290 km of dirt road. Yep. We’ve sprayed a whole lot of rocks out from under these Toyo’s!
Here’s roughly how it went (roughly, get it?! 😂)
Alice Springs to Finke 160
Finke to Kulgera 140
Kulgera to Finke 140
Mereenie Loop Road 140
Gosse Bluff Crater 60
East McDonnell Range (Ruby Gap) 160
Lamberts Geographical Centre of Aus 24
Chambers Pillar 100
Finke to Mt Dare 105
My Dare to Dalhousie return 140
Mt Dare to Oodnadatta 248
William Creek to Algebuckina return 175
Oodnadatta Track from Oodnadatta to Coober Pedy 194
Coober Pedy to William Creek Return 166
William Creek to Marree 204
Of course included in those km is the iconic Oodnadatta Track from Oodnadatta to Marree. There were a few dirt track detours along the way - and some of the most amazing places we have been were on those little detours!
The Oodnadatta is an adventure in itself. The side of this 620km dirt highway is littered with sidings, mound springs fed by the Great Artesian Basin, sand dunes, remnants of the old Ghan, rocky outcrops, ruins, rail bridges, salt lakes, vast plains and tableland dotted with flat top mesas. You will find endless broken glass, rusty old cars, sculptures and maybe even a camel or 5.
But one thing you won’t find much of is internet or phone reception which makes for a lovely break and some incredible nights of star gazing.
We’ve just hit the black top in Marree - and have enjoyed dinner at the pub 😍
Bring on the Flinders Ranges! And a night or three at Farina. Chris can’t wait to check out the bakery 🥧😁
Stay tuned for some Oodnadatta spam over the next week or so - depending on when we have internet to share 📸✌🏼
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Coober Pedy is known for its abundance of opals, but drive just 33 km out of town and you’ll find this gem - The Breakaways 😍
This striking rocky landscape is where 29 movies, doco’s and/or reality shows have been filmed! Yep. 29 have had scenes shot right here and it’s easy to see why. It’s the perfect backdrop for alien and post-apocalyptic landscapes 👽 🛸 You really feel like you’re looking at a moonscape 🌝
Mad Max, Pitch Black, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Fire in the Stone, Arrowhead and the list goes onnnnnn …..
These colourful low hills that have broken away from the Stuart Range, hence their name 'The Breakaways’, are the hottest place in Australia with ground temps soaring to 65°C !! 🥵 and are thought to have formed through the evaporation of an ancient inland sea 🌊
Say what? I know … everything about this place is bizarre. Even the landscape!
The more time I spend in the Australian outback, the more I feel at home here on these rough, dusty roads. I mean c’mon. These sunsets are enough to melt anyone’s heart 🌅♥️
We’ve been here in Coober Pedy for 9 days 😯 It’s such a shame that 7 were spent in lockdown as there is soooo much to see in this quirky little outback town!
We’ve squeezed in what we can (stay tuned for the pics 📸) these past two days and we’ve had a blast doing it.
We’ve met some amazing people who call Coober Pedy home and have heard some amazing stories! Everything about this place is unique - let’s just say the word ‘bizarre’ has been worn out during our stay 😆
Now … it’s back out into the great unknown - the land of no reception 👋🏼
🚀 👽 Ah Coober Pedy, you’re a quirky little town! We’re feeling a little spaced out 🌝 ✨🤪
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How we shed those few pesky kilos during lock down without exercising including a 7 day menu plan! 🙌🏼 (and … we ate crepes every day!)
OK, so we don’t actually know how many kilos we’ve lost during lock downs as we don’t carry scales with us, but what we know we have lost are a few double chins, a couple of muffins tops, some back blubber and the bad moods from being ‘frumpy’ 😅
We have been on the road full time since October 2020 and keeping on top of the healthy lifestyle has been challenging, but, with a little pre-planning you can keep on top of it! 😁🙌🏼
Check out how we did it - link to BLOG in bio 👍🏼
On a side note - how good is Chris’s hair these days? Not a hair cut since we left the Gold Coast (swipe 👈🏼) 😂
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#crepes
You guys all know we love our Alucab rooftop tent ♥️ Well, have we got a surprise for you! 👏🏼👏🏼
👈🏼Swipe to see the preview video 📹 😁
You wouldn’t believe what pulled up beside us when we were at Chambers Pillar, in the middle of the Northern Territory!
It wasn’t just your average Alucab rooftop tent - no - it was the full Canopy Camper set up!! These are super rare in Australia! 🤩
James and Sam, who are Iron Man 4x4 and Alucab dealers in Moree, gave us the full run down of their full set up from kitchen to canopy to shower cube 🚿 James is an absolute character!!
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Coober Pedy - you are such a unique little town! We’ve been so excited to get out and explore 👏🏼
So far we’ve seen … this sign. Oh, and the IGA 😂
We are now in lockdown and really didn’t get to see much before hunkering down 🔐 😔
Hurry up & let us actually explore all the cool stuff we’ve been reading about 🙏🏼
So - what are your tips? What should we cram into the 2 days we will have here? 👇🏼👇🏼
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Chambers Pillar - what an incredible place, made even more incredible because someone we know told us their ancestors names were engraved right on it! 😯
We were ready for a treasure hunt, but didn’t have to look far to find the names William and Mary Hayes 😁
They came to Australia in 1884 and took up land in Deep Well. Our mate Richie is one of the descendants mentioned on the info board (swipe to see). How cool is that??
The Dreamtime story behind Chambers Pillar and Castle Rock is also intriguing. The Kukatja-Luritja believe that The Pillar is the Gecko ancestor, Itirkawara, who was exiled for disregarding strict marriage rules and taking a wife from the wrong skin group. They both retreated into the desert, and when they stopped to rest, turned into prominent rocky formations - Itirkawara into The Pillar which towers 50
metres above the plain, and the woman into Castle Rock, found just 500m to the north-east.
And there you have it! It’s more than just a pretty place 😁
We stayed the night in the @alucab at The Pillar Campground which was awesome! We woke up to the heaviest fog we’ve seen in ages. We’d set our alarm for sunrise which wasn’t exactly what we expected, but still stunning 😍
Have you been to special places made even more special with a story? ☺️👇🏼
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UPDATE - winner has been drawn! 😁😁
WHO REMEMBERS OUR HILUX?? Read on … We are in lockdown, so why not run another competition?! 🤔😁
This time an @alucab pack is up for grabs 😁🙌🏼
What’s in the pack? Alucab hat, Alucab Beanie, Alucab Bottle Opener, Alucab strap, Alucab Stickers and a LIMITED EDITION Alucab Sunshade.
But it’s not just any sunshade! If you have a closer look, you’ll see a hilux … but not just any Hilux! Who remembers OUR Hilux? Yep! Immortalised on a sunshade ☀️🤙🏼
👈🏼SWIPE TO SEE THE ORIGINAL PIC 📸 👈🏼
We would have done one with the Chevy but it was too big to fit on the sunshade 😂😂😂
HOW TO ENTER:
✅ Like the competition post on our instagram page.
✅ Tag 3 mates in the comments of the competition post who you’d like to be ‘out of lockdown’ with
✅ Like and follow the @aussiedestinationsunknown , @alucab and @alucab_australia instagram pages
✅ Comment and engage with our page for the duration of the competition (this is how we remember you when we come to pick a winner!)
✅ Share the comp in your story tagging the ADU and Alucab pages
🗓 Competition ends 12pm on Tuesday July 27 (hopefully this is when SA will come out of lock down!!)
🏆 We will announce the winners and contact them via private message that afternoon. If we get no response within 7 days we will redraw the winner.
Good Luck 😁
🇦🇺 Competition open to Australian residents only.
And - if you’ve read this far, we also have some more Alucab Merch to giveaway! To get it, ‘all you have to do’ is find us on the road and show us your Alucab and snap a pic with us! Then share it to your feed and stories ans tag us and Alucab! Simples 😅
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UPDATE - congrats to @dingasdeb and @whimsicaldesigns_andrea_ our WINNERS! 🏆😁
🔐♥️Win TWO LOCKDOWN LOVE PACKS for you AND A MATE! ♥️🔐What’s in the packs? 3 awesome @tidyturfmats 😁🙌🏼 Scroll down for HOW TO ENTER👇🏼👇🏼
1 x How’s the Serenity Mat, 1 x Adventure Mat and 1 x Bonnie Doon Mat.
🌱How’s the Serenity Mat
The caravan fold down step mat is perfect for the first step into or out of your van. This mat features two velcro straps to easily secure the mat firmly onto your fold down step or step stool. This is the original step mat with velcro straps and one of our favourites!
🌱Adventure Mat
This mat is our most versatile and features a velcro strap to easily secure when you roll it up to take on your adventure. We like to think this mat is a take anywhere kinda mat, just throw it in the back of your car.
🌱The Bonnie Doon Mat
This caravan inner step mat inserts perfectly into the door cavity of your caravan. Making it the 'Dirt Buster' for your home on the road.
These mats are great for getting rid of any excess debris that’s stuck to your feet or your shoes … think sand, wet grass, mud and whatever else you, your mates or your kids might have stepped in! 🌱🌿🏖💦 We love them and have them all over the place! 🥰
HOW TO ENTER:
✅ Like this post
✅ Tag your mate in the comments of this post who needs these mats in their lives!
✅ Like and follow both ADU Instagram Page and Tidy Turf Mat Instagram Page
✅ Comment and engage with our page for the duration of the competition (this is how we remember you when we come to pick a winner!)
Don't forget that you can always use our code ADU10 for a discount off any purchase on the TTM website 🤙🏼
🗓 Competition ends 12pm on Tuesday July 27 (hopefully this is when SA will come out of lock down!!)
🏆 We will announce the winners and contact them via private message that afternoon. If we get no response within 7 days we will redraw the winner.
🇦🇺 Competition open to Australian residents only.
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🍿 🎥 Swipe for the video! 😁GHOST TOWN CAMPING | WE GOT CROWDED OUT OF OUR STUNNING RIVERSIDE CAMP!! | CLEM JONES & MARY KATHLEEN | Episode 7 of ADU Goes Outback tonight at 7:30 Queensland time ⏰😁
In episode 7 we make our way to Mt Isa and:
▪️Spend a night at the stunning riverside FREE camp, Clem Walton Park ( just past Cloncurry)
▪️Get crowded out of the stunning riverside free camp and end up at the much better
▪️Ghost Town of Mary Kathleen where we (free) camp on the slab of the old general store
▪️Check out the stunning blue water of the Mary Kathleen Mine
▪️Drive on a lot of corrugated and very ‘pot-holes’ roads to get there!
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We’d just traveled from Mt Dare, the day before we’d been to Dalhousie and we were just about to head to Oodnadatta. What a ripper of a T junction! 😁🙌🏼 And what a ripper of a journey! These were the worst roads we’ve ever traveled as they’d suffered extreme flood damage and had only just reopened. But hey, we didn’t let that stop us! What’s a few (million) corrugations, puddles, washouts and insanely rocky river beds? 🤪
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We’ve never felt so centred … 😂🙌🏼
We’ve been to the geographical centres of Tassie & Queensland and have just ticked off the ACTUAL centre of the entire country!
I guess we have a few more states and territories to tick off yet ✔️✔️✔️
Have you been to any ‘geographical centres’? Were they as underwhelming as this lonely flagpole without a flag? 😆
We’d love to hear what the other ‘centres’ are like … comment below and let us know!
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We don’t care how far we have to drive, or how isolated we may become … if it means we get to see unforgettable places like this, we are IN! 🙌🏼 Do you give it a miss if the tracks’s a bit rough or the destination is really remote? Or are you adventure seeking crazies like us?? 🤪 There’s nothing wrong with either, but hey - we love a good adventure! Even if it means not knowing what’s around the next corner 😁🤙🏼
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We’ve had this truck parked up in some pretty speccy locations … what do you think of this one? Palm Valley - where you’ll find palm trees and cycads in the middle of the desert! 🌴 🏜
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The West MacDonnell Ranges … we’ve spent the past week exploring his incredibly diverse part of the NT and still didn’t get to see it all! This pic was snapped at the magical Redbank Gorge, one of our (many) favourite places in this area 😁🤙🏼
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We woke up at 4:00 and braved the freezing temperatures of the winter outback … and it was so worth it to see The Field of Light at Uluru … and then the sun rise up and light up the rock!
Sure it’s a ‘touristy’ thing to do … but seeing other people’s photos and videos of these colour changing lights just isn’t the same as the wandering through the fantasy-like fields and then drinking your morning coffee as the sun comes up over Uluru. I may have enjoyed it a little more than Chris … but even he admitted he liked it 😅
I’m so glad that what was meant to be a temporary display of 50,000 spindles covering more than seven football fields is now lighting up the outback indefinitely 😍 Bruce Munro - we thank you! Your artwork is breathtakingly beautiful.
Tick tick off the bucket list ✅✅😁 Is this on your list? Have you been? Let us know what you think!!👇🏼
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🌴 Palm Trees in the middle of the desert? Yep - we finally made it to Palm Valley and -we had to drive along the oldest river in the world to get there (Finke River).
This place every bit as incredible as we’ve heard and we were totally blown away at this little oasis in the middle of the desert!
As you drive in, it’s almost like you’re on the set of CARS, in Arizona! 🌵
The Red Cabbage Palm (where the valley got its name) is only found in this area and there are only about 3,000 fully grown plants.
We’ve had a blast exploring The West MacDonnell Ranges this past week - and we think a night in the Alucab at Palm Valley was the perfect way to end it! 😍🌴
It’s about 136km from Alice Springs, so definitely close enough to do a day trip if you aren’t set up for camping. But … if you have an offroad caravan or camper trailer or rooftop tent … we highly recommend spending a couple of nights at the campground. It’s fantastic with toilets, showers, fire pits and is right by the river 😍
Have you been here or is it on your list? If not … add it! 🙌🏼
Ps. This was my attempt at ‘opening my eyes on the count of 3’ - I’d left my sunnies behind! As you can see, it was an epic fail 😑🤪
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The Pound Walk at Ormiston Gorge ( West MacDonnell Ranges) has to be one of our fav walks ever!! 😍 Chris isn’t a huge fan of walks, but even he was raving about this one. It took us under 3 hours and was just spectacular! Towards the end you have to wade through water so cold it makes your toes numb … and then burn!! 🥶 Swipe to see my reaction and Chris’s fantastic hairdo 😂😂
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As full time travellers, we spend a lot of time by ourselves, and as much as we love our own company (🤪) it’s been amazing spending the last 6 weeks with Greg, Donna and the kids from @campedia.com.au 🥰
🔥 I snapped this pic of Greg & Chris on our last morning together, out enjoying each other’s company by the fire before sunrise. It’s not often you can say you’ve traveled with another family for so long (6 weeks!!) and still loved each other at the end! 😅
It’s been 4 days now since we’ve parted ways … they went north and we are heading south! We miss them already ♥️
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The NT Outback - where even the rest stops are like WOW 😍
This is Point Howard Lookout, just one of many places you can pull over for a picnic, snap a pic,
or even camp for the night on the West MacDonnell Range loop. And it’s also one of the very few places that you’ll find rubbish bins! 🗑🙌🏼
Thanks to Greg from @campedia.com.au for snapping this for us! 😁🙏🏼
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The Mereenie Loop Road links the Kings Canyon area to the West MacDonnell Ranges and cuts out a whole lot of kms and time. But - it’s 150 km of brutal corrugation, washouts and boggy sand.
In this video we show you how we prepare both the caravan and Chevy to tackle this track. We made it across with absolutely no damage whatsoever 😁😁 and since, have come across a few people who didn’t fare so well😬
You need a permit to drive on this road, and we saw donkeys, brumbys and were warned about camels and roos as well.
We dropped the tyres and adjust the pressures in the air bags, paid careful attention to how we packed inside the van and made it across without a single bit of damage 👍🏼
Having a capable setup sure makes all the difference when it comes to this sort of adventuring 😁🙌🏼
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Not a bad little ‘rest stop’ 😁 Overnight camping allowed thank you very much 🙏🏼
Morris Pass lookout is where we stayed before hitting the Mereenie Loop Rd from Kings Canyon to Alice/West MacDonnell Range ♥️
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The hardest thing about full-time travel is 100% not being able to see our families. The hardest thing about full-time travel during the Covid pandemic is that when a loved one dies or becomes sick we can’t get home.
My 93 y/o nan had a stroke last night. My dad called me from her bedside this morning and I was able to talk to her. She couldn’t talk back but was responsive. I told her about our travels and her beautiful great-grandkids. Told her how much I loved her and cried and not long after, I received a call from my mum saying she had passed away.
My nan was such a fighter and has proved us all wrong so many times by refusing to die! She was still out walking and even riding on the back of dads motorbike not that long ago. I guess it’s kind of a shock that it’s actually happened. She was such a strong woman and along with my grandad helped raise me when my parents worked and my kids when I worked.
I’m forever grateful for such happy memories and being blessed with such wonderful grandparents.
I love you nanny and my heart is broken 💔 I know you’re in a better place and your pain is now gone, but that doesn’t stop my heart from hurting like it is. Give grandad, Sarah and Ily the biggest hugs from me ♥️♥️♥️
The interesting thing is - my mum ( @karenmacewriter )has written a book about grief called ‘A Grief Revealed’ and it was released yesterday. Shame that we don’t have anywhere she can send it - that’s the other downside about full time travel. We don’t know where we will be over the next 4 weeks so parcel lockers won’t work.
