Camping Australia

North Stradbroke Island: Day Two

21 April 2010 Entertainment Australia

My car breaks down. This is also a story of how helpful Australians can be. We spent the morning exploring the beach but for the afternoon, we wanted to explore “central” North Stradbroke Island. With all the kids and wives loaded up into our two cars, not a straightforward logistical achievement, we were ready to [...]

It’s North Stradbroke Island Week Here on BobinOz

20 April 2010 Entertainment Australia

One of the things we really love about camping here in Australia is that you can simply throw all your camping gear into the boot of the car and go off for the weekend to somewhere new, somewhere different, and it often turns out to be somewhere really spectacular. And you can do this with [...]

Our Camping Weekend in Australia, Any Intruders?

20 November 2009 Australia's Bad Things

I mentioned earlier in the week about my acclimatisation to Australia in terms of getting used to the creepy crawlies. I said that I felt we had reached stage four in the process simply by going camping. “Camping in Australia? Are you nuts! There’ll be snakes and spiders and bugs everywhere, what are you, some [...]

So, Any Creepy Crawlies or Australian Bad Things at Camping?

29 September 2009 Australia's Bad Things

In my post announcing I was going camping in Australia, I said I was “off into the wilds to live side by side with nature’s wildest beasts”. So, did I see any? The first sign of wildlife that I noticed was a singing kookaburra who was perched on a tree about 20 feet away from [...]

Camping in Australia: What Can Possibly Go Wrong?

28 September 2009 Entertainment Australia

The BobinOz family are not the kind of people to set off for anywhere at the crack of dawn. So it was at about 1 pm on Friday that we finally descended our steep driveway and set off on our first ever camping adventure in Australia. At approximately 1:40 pm, at almost exactly the mid [...]