| Day 4 Parkes to Dubbo | |
| By jasmel05 on18/04/2010 12:00 a.m. | |
| Woke up this morning in the truck rest stop to find trucks all around us... very funny being in the middle of them all. By the time we were ready to leave most of them had left as well. I was desperate for the loo and we had decided to go to McDonalds for breakfast for a treat so left pretty much as soon as we were all dressed, it was only a few kilometres back to town. Had pancakes for breakfast and let the kids play on the playground there while we had a coffee. After breakfast we took the car and van through a car wash so we could scrub off a heap of locusts which had flown into the front of the van as we were worried they would stain if left there for too long. I have forgotten to mention before now just how bad the locusts were after Renmark, we actually stopped at Bunnings in Mildura and bought some fly wire to put over the front grill of the car as we were worried that the locusts would block the radiator. The guy in Bunnings s ... |  | |
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| Day 3 - Hay to Parkes | |
| By jasmel05 on17/04/2010 12:00 a.m. | |
| Woke up this morning and what a lovely free camp site, we will definitely be back here again if we come through Hay. The campsite is right on the banks of the Murrimbidgee River and there are heaps of table under shade and an open area and a sandy bank (beach) on the river where the kids had lots of fun playing in the sand and throwing hard clumps of sand into the river. If we weren't on a tight schedule to get to Queensland we might have stayed on. Off to Parkes today. | | |
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| Day 3 Arrival at Parkes | |
| By jasmel05 on17/04/2010 12:00 a.m. | |
| | Arrived at Parkes late this afternoon to our nominated free camp site.... a shared truck stop on the side of the highway just north east of the town, literally on the side of the highway. We pulled up behind a motor home and spoke to the couple inside who had spent the night at the same site the night before as well and said it was fine. Plenty of trucks pulling up around us for a rest, pretty noisy from the road as well and a bit unnerving being in a rest stop. There is a toilet available there but I nearly vomited as I went into the cubicle to find plenty of mess and flies all over the seats and floor in both the male and female toilets, decided I could not use the toilets!!!! Cooked our dinner and went straight to bed, tired from all the driving! | | |
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| Day 2 - Renmark to Hay | |
| By jasmel05 on16/04/2010 12:00 a.m. | |
| | Woke up this morning, everyone happy, the kids loved looking out their window to find an emu looking at them from inside the sanctuary and a monkey cage only a few feet from the van! Ate a quick breakfast and off towards Hay today. | | |
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| Day 2 - Arrival at Hay | |
| By jasmel05 on16/04/2010 12:00 a.m. | |
| | Pulled in to our free camp for the night at Hay after dark so a bit hairy wondering if we would fit and be able to drive in under trees etc. No problems though, we stayed in the Sandy Point Camp site at Hay. Too dark to see to much but the site was pretty level and there were several other vans around and still plenty of room for us. A nice clean toilet and plenty of BBQ / table areas scattered around for use.� | | |
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| Adelaide - Renmark | |
| By jasmel05 on15/04/2010 12:00 a.m. | |
| | Left this afternoon to start our journey through NSW to Queensland on our first extended holiday in the van as a family. Drove to Renmark and free camped by Bredl's Wildlife Sanctuary just off the highway. Our first experience at free camping using the van and Camps 5 book. Not a bad little place to stop, nice clean toilet to use and a BBQ / grass area not far away. Arrived in the dark so not too much to see anywhere... took comfort in the fact that there was another van in the parking area. | | |
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| Delivery and first trip | |
| By jasmel05 on5/09/2008 4:11 p.m. | |
| | We just took delivery of our new 21 foot Galaxy caravan that we had custom built for us last Friday and couldn't wait to get in it and start travelling so we quickly   what we needed together and went for a few nights to West Beach Caravan Park, SA to test it out. Luckily for us the weather was great for our first trip and the van was fantastic. We have a two and a half year old boy and an eleven month old girl so wanted to make a van that would be practical and comfortable for us in years to come if we chose to travel further afield. Well aside from the few normal glitches you would expect we are totally happy with what we have. West Beach Caravan Park was lovely as well, right on the beach, good security, clean amenities with a seperate baby bathroom and todder and full size pool, great playground, big games room and large double concrete sites. I enjoyed cooking on my new gas cooktop and in the oven and built in ... | | |
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