When it comes to auxiliary battery solutions, we’ve had a few options in the TJ over the years. We’ve always been fairly strong supporters of Redarc products and it makes total sense. They’re Australian made and stand up to the conditions of this arid and rugged land we call home. We started with an SBI12 […]
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For years now, 13 years in fact, we’ve had our old faithful ARB Air Compressor fitted under the bonnet of the TJ. It was one of the very first modifications we undertook, and while the team at ARB did a bit of a hatchet job installing it, it has served us well in quite horrible
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Our drive from Tavira to Benagil required an approach focussed around eating up some time as we had to check out by 12 pm and we can’t check in at our Benagil apartment until 4 pm. Given that the drive was only an hour or so, we decided to have lunch somewhere on the way.
One of the handiest gadgets you can have while travelling in a group of 2 or more is a Mobile Hotspot. People often ask me if they think it’s worth it, considering they have their mobile phone with them and they can tether via this. My answer is generally one of ease. Tethered connections generally
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Our journey to Tavira started with our departing San Sebastian/Donostia. We’d arranged an airport transfer to pick us up from the hotel and drop us directly to Bilbao Airport. I’d arranged the transfer through an app called “BlackLane”. I’d never used them before but felt somewhat reassured when a driver was allocated to our trip
We kicked off our first full day in San Sebastian/Donostia with a walk along the beaches that stretch quite a long way from where we’re staying, to the old town. This walk, however, wasn’t one for exercise. This is the beginning of 2 solid days of Pintxo crawling. As mentioned previously, Pintxos is like a
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The drive from Lekeitio to San Sebastian/Donostia was along the northern coastline of Spain, looking out to the Bay of Biscay. This was a lovely drive along a winding road. It would have been the perfect ride on a motorbike but was also enjoyable in the Beemer. We avoided the highways on the way into
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Today we depart La Guardia for Lekeitio which is in the north of Spain on the coast, about 60k’s west of San Sebastian. Kath picked this little fishing village out of a number of possible places to stay up here due to the size of the town, then lack of traditional overseas tourists and the
We pick things up as we drive into La Guardia. This little village on top of a hill is one of those quaint little places that is both forgotten in time and modern all at the same time. The walls of the buildings look like they were erected just last week however some of them
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Our journey around Spain begins in Barcelona where we’ve booked into the Yurbban Trafalgar Hotel, which is in a perfect location for walking and seeing some of the main sights of Barcelona. For dinner tonight we managed to get a 20 minute slot at Bar Del Pla, which is highly recommended as having great local
Our journey through Spain begins with our flights from Brisbane to Barcelona. In preparing for this trip we decided that we really wanted to fly on an Airbus A380, mostly because we hadn’t done this before. We were using our Qantas Frequent Flyer points for our flights and as we wanted to fly Business class,
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You know it’s getting close when you start going through all your camera gear/toys. A few last minute purchases being some new GoPro batteries for the ageing Hero 3 and a charging adapter for 3 batteries, and a couple of SanDisk Ultra UHS high-speed micro SD cards as backups for the GoPro and the DJI
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Don’t eat freshly purchased BBQ Chicken while in the car park of the Pink Roadhouse in Oodnadatta. I dare you to try it, suffice to say you may lose a finger to a ‘chicken’ hawk in the process. If taking a 4×4 Ute across the desert, ensure heavy items are carried over or in front
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Heading off from Poeppel Corner meant heading north again, roughly following the NT/QLD border. This track follows alongside the salt flat mentioned previously. It seems to stretch on for miles. Along the way, we dipped on and off the salt flat as it was just quicker to travel on the flat that on the track.
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Waking up at Purni Bore knowing that we were heading into the desert proper today meant that we made good use of the facilities. From here on in there won’t be any services other than what we have with us. It’s a nice feeling, that sense of excitement mixed with trepidation. It’s a feeling
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Here is a quick video of some footage captured from our drive from Mt Dare to Purni Bore. It was a long slow day mainly as a result of the corrugations along the way.
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After a good rest at the last bastion of hospitality we’ll see for a few days, we packed up and headed towards the desert. Navigating our way out of Mt Dare was simpler than navigating our way in and after clearing all the lake roads, we embarked upon the most corrugated road we’ve come across
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Departing Hamilton Station and heading towards the kick-off point of our Simpson Desert crossing was exciting for all concerned. We knew that we had one more night of being surrounded by some level of amenity before we were really and truly on our own for a few nights in one of the most remote places in
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The new drone has arrived which is smaller and more portable than the previous one. We’re looking forward to making use of this technique more often simply due to this portability. Some footage taken during the inaugural flight at Paradise Point below.
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Highlights from our drone footage taken while travelling to and across the Simpson Desert. Click Read More to check out the footage.
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