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Adelaide to Three Hummock Island

Our New Years Eve began extremely early at 4am as we pulled the anchor at Troubridge Island(on the western side of Gulf St Vincent) to make the 40nm passage ENE to Adelaide in absolutely perfect glassy conditions the entire way. What a way to end a mag…

And now we are 4….

Yup, a new member of Crew Istaboa will be coming aboard soon.For Mel’s birthday, she dug her heels in and insisted we have another critter. Radar and I resisted for as long a we could, but she was relentless and as usual… she won. Muddy Waters o…

Motor Home South Australia Part 5

8 Our day starts off gently; cellar doors do not open until 10:00am, so we have a leisurely breakfast and conduct all of our internet business before heading out. We love the fact that we have good and reliable internet coverage for 99.9% of Australia…

Motor Home South Australia Part 4

6 Wine Tour Day! Woo Hoo! Darn, they only open at 10:00 am, what will we do with ourselves until then? This is actually a really great way to see the country side. We set off with map in hand and a handheld GPS unit to back it up to find our first Cel…

Happy Birthday Melonie

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Occupy Oakland Riots

The Occupy Wall Street Movement started on September 17, 2011. While the movement was centered in New York City, many other cities around the country started similar movements at the same time. San Francisco’s Occupy Movement was centered in the … Continue reading

Dock Bird and another Sunset

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Motor Home South Austalia Part 3

4 The trip today will see us cover quite a few miles, so we are up early and off. Within 1 hour we are pulled over for our first site of the day, the limestone cliffs of “ship wreck coast”.  Absolutely stunning! The next 10 km are spent stopping …

Motor Home South Australia Part 2

3 We navigate our way out of town and head off on the Great Ocean road. Lots of cute little sea side towns and gorgeous sweeping ocean views, shining sandy beaches and rugged cliffs. We stop to walk on the beach to see if there are shells for our coll…

Motor Home Adventures in South Australia Part 1

1 Our motor home adventure begins by flying from Gold Coast airport to Melbourne. Tiger Air is the carrier, I booked them because they were cheap. Then I had all kinds of second thought as some locals we have met were telling us horror stories about t…