The Darwin Oil Storage Tunnels offered a calm step into the city’s wartime past. Cool underground chambers, simple displays and a quiet look at how Darwin prepared for air raids during WWII.
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Adelaide River is more than a stop on the Stuart Highway. WWII history, quiet river country, and stories that linger long after you leave. A place to slow down and listen.
Cliff walls catching the last of the light, still water below, and stories that run far deeper than the river itself.
We joined a sunset cruise through Jawoyn Country, knowing even then that this is somewhere we’ll come back to explore properly, on foot and by paddle.
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📍 Nitmiluk Gorge, Northern Territory
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2025 wasn’t about ticking boxes. It was about slowing down, paying attention, and letting the road lead. A reflective look back at the places and moments that shaped our year, in the order they unfolded.
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Daly Waters doesn’t rush for anyone...not even traffic.
Just another afternoon where the local cattle have right of way outside the pub.
📍 Daly Waters, Northern Territory
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We parked up at Mary Kathleen, the old uranium mine between Mount Isa and Cloncurry. A whole abandoned town and a huge open-cut pit, just sitting quietly in the outback.
📍 Mary Kathleen, Queensland
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We stopped in at the Walkabout Creek Hotel in McKinlay. THE Crocodile Dundee pub itself. Cold beer, dusty charm and that famous knife on the bar.
📍 McKinlay, Queensland
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We’ve been travelling full-time for three years in our trusty Winnebago Jervis moho. It’s hard to believe how far it’s taken us.
📍Winton, Queensland
G'day. We’re Cameron and Neil
We travel Australia slowly, mainly by motorhome, chasing back roads, small towns, and the quiet places that don’t need much explaining.
This account will be photos, short stories, and the occasional link to longer pieces on our site. No rush, no algorithms to impress, and no promise of daily anything.
If you like thoughtful travel, wide horizons, and places that reward patience, you’re very welcome here.
I skipped my monthly promotions. Nothing bad happened, I just went on a nice little road trip to Canberra. Here, enjoy some photos of the Australian capital instead of a featured story.
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Jayde Holmes