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Bushman Bud on August 23rd, 2011

G’day all, With the sun rising, Amy and I headed to El Questro Gorge whilst Lynda stayed behind with Jess.  Amy and I planned to conquer the big boulder at the half way point and carry on to Mic Micking Pool at the end of the gorge. Half the fun is the 4WD track in.  [...]

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Bushman Bud on January 11th, 2011

G’day all, Leaving our overnight camp half way between Norseman and Esperance we headed South stopping for morning tea at Scadden where the kids played on a giant Fig Tree.  They are always great for climbing and the kids had  a ball.  We left Scadden and headed to Esperance arriving late morning and stopped in [...]

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Bushman Bud on January 5th, 2011

G’day All, Yes, I am back and its good to be back.  The trouble is we have been enjoying ourselves on the Eyre Peninsula so much that time to write and catch up has been too difficult.  We have been making the most of SA’s daylight saving and time zone with the sun setting around [...]

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Bushman Bud on November 4th, 2010

G’day all, The rain is back!  We have had two weeks of glorious weather so no complaints.  We briefly stopped in at Bundaberg to get some fabrication completed on the van for an upcoming adventure…more on that later.  That completed it was time to move on down the coast.  Next stop was Burrum Heads NP.  [...]

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Bushman Bud on November 2nd, 2010

G’day all, Next stop Cania Gorge, approx 250 klm inland from Bundaberg. We left Dawson Creek Rest Area and headed for Cania Gorge arriving there around lunch time.  There is no free camping and/or National Park camping here so you have to stay in one of two caravan parks.  Being Big 4 members we stayed [...]

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Bushman Bud on October 31st, 2010

G’day all, What an awesome experience we had at the Canarvon Gorge located 100 kms South West of Rolleston in Central QLD.  One could be excused for saying an oasis in the middle of…well…nowhere. We camped on the access road into the park and in the morning had a further 22klms of rough unsealed dusty road [...]

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Bushman Bud on October 30th, 2010

G’day all, After staying over on in a small bush camp siding close to Rubyvale, we were back on the road to make the 9:15am tour of the Heritage Mine just outside Rubyvale.  This mine captures the history of the gemfields area surrounding the Emerald region. The tour takes you down and around the still operational sapphire mine [...]

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Bushman Bud on October 5th, 2010

G’day All, Time for Joey Jess to summit this mountain. Leaving Lake Tinnaroo at 5:30am we were caught out a little with the length of the drive to the walking track for the Bartle Frere summit.  This took us 1 hour and 15 mins meaning by the time we grabbed the back pack and sprayed [...]

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Bushman Bud on October 4th, 2010

G’day all, After climbing Mt Bartle Frere and getting so close to the summit with Joey Jess it was time to hook up the Kedron and head back to Lake Tinaroo so Joey Jess could have a crack at the summit on the West Track. Lake Tinaroo is such a beautiful place to relax and [...]

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Bushman Bud on September 23rd, 2010

G’day all, On the road early this morning and a trip to Port Douglas and Mossman Gorge. We arrived in Port Douglas around 9:00am and took sometime just walking the streets and browsing through a few shops.  It was great fun with the kids and yes…Bushman Bud ended up buying the kids some rather expensive [...]

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