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Batty Tales
Congratulations and Thank You!!!

Congratulations and Thank You!!!

Not sure if you worked it out or not, but our return trip to Sydney wasnt just for the pure pleasure of seeing all our friends again. We had some very important business to attend to which included the wedding of [...]

September 15, 2011 Family
Long Road South

Long Road South

As mentioned by Brendan, we finally made it to the tip of our great country. While it wasnt exactly a life changing event, the experience of getting there and back again has certainly had quite an effect on our little [...]

September 15, 2011 Queensland
Sad News

Sad News

The Batty’s are coming home early! It’s not all bad news though. Angela went and got herself pregnant, so we have to cut our trip short by a few months. She is 11 weeks in, so due around April. Our last [...]

September 14, 2011 Uncategorized
The Tip

The Tip

If there was ever a place in Australia that you thought you wouldn’t have to worry about the availability of a car park, the most northern tip of the Australian mainland would be it. but allas, as we pulled up [...]

September 1, 2011 Queensland
Cape York – Getting to the top, almost

Cape York – Getting to the top, almost

You hear so many stories of woe coming from Cape York. While we were in Lakefield National Park, we met a group of 4WDers who were on their way south. Coming through a dip in the road, one of the [...]

August 11, 2011 Queensland
Cape York – Lakefield National Park

Cape York – Lakefield National Park

It has been just over 13 weeks since we left Sydney and not since then have I felt the same sense of anticipation as the day we drove north out of Cairns. With the Big C finally in our rear-vision, [...]

July 29, 2011 Queensland
Warning, this post contains drug use

Warning, this post contains drug use

Editors Note: I wrote this post about a week and a half ago, but after a few user issues and then technical frustrations, it got deleted three times before I could post it. As such, some of the info is [...]

July 22, 2011 Queensland
Where have all the waves gone??

Where have all the waves gone??

Ah, that’s better! A power point and full reception! You Beauty! As I mentioned in our last post, we had decided to make camp in the Byfield National Park, along 9 Mile Beach. That is if you can really call [...]

July 1, 2011 Queensland
Peace, Quiet and really, really, really big fish…

Peace, Quiet and really, really, really big fish…

That was the main advertisement for Lake Awoonga Caravan Park, which as mentioned by Brendan was where we made our home for the next week of our trip. Brendan was a bit hesitant at first, I mean who wants to [...]

June 25, 2011 Queensland
The Last Resort

The Last Resort

For the first couple of nights we stayed at “The Pacific View” on Kings Beach, I had trouble getting to sleep because my bed was level. It’s funny how you get used to some things, even after only five or [...]

June 16, 2011 Queensland
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