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23.01.2022 Quick few phone snaps of Landcruiser Life. The caravan is now at Jayco Bundaberg for 10 days approx for some warranty repairs that have been scheduled for some time now. So we are now living out of the Landcruiser. Really glad we built it to be a tourer. After so many transformations and trialling various ways of camping, we are really happy with this setup. It beats the dedicated rooftop tent. This popup tent is still stored on the roof racks in a custom vinyl bag along wit...h the self inflating mattress and bedding to keep it dry. But the beauty is we can drive away and leave it setup aside from the awning. This setup is our shower and toilet ensuite and bedroom and living and kitchen all in the one vehicle. Our electrical install is serving us really well with heaps of solar and charge to get us through. About to start heading toward Fraser Island very soon to really test it out along with our driving skills. More bogged photos to follow I am sure See more

21.01.2022 Fraser Island Day 3 - We're off. Back in a few weeks when we can time better weather. Wish we got to see more and driven all the way to Sandy Cape, but we will do it next time. We can't take any more of this weather. We don't want to swim or do walks in this and they are big reasons why we came here.

21.01.2022 A few pics from our recent trip to Fraser Island (and a few pics from Inskip point too where you catch the barge over to Fraser). We didn't get the camera out much this trip as the weather was just a bit average and it rained a lot, then came out sunny, then back to rain. But we will hopefully head back soon and try to time better weather as we didn't see half as much as we would have liked. We are currently house sitting 20 minutes out of Bundaberg for a week ending this Sunday or maybe Monday. We don't feel like we can go far from here right now as we are waiting for a few more parts from Jayco for our caravan. Really wanted to get some aerial shots there, but I accidentally packed the wrong charge cord for the bloody drone ....Doh!

20.01.2022 Well, shit. First recovery of the trip. Just about to unhook the van and winch us out and then the van out sideaways to firmer ground (may have worked), then a couple of locals stopped behind us and winched us and the caravan out from behind. Bloody exciting and loved every minute of it. Last photo is Lee stopping in town just after we were winched out of the bog, and walks across the road and straight back into it

17.01.2022 I'm not the photographer in the family (obviously ) but it seems we may be travelling with a budding photographer! Listening to Dad's advice on how to take the best photo etc.. Lee

16.01.2022 Fraser Island Day 1 - Not bogged. Cruiser was in It's element. What an epic day. So much to see and it varies often. What an awesome place to 4wd. It really is a big boys playground. Lake Mackenzie was beautiful blue just like the pictures. Stoked.

16.01.2022 Miriam Vale is so cute! Great wee town! AMAZING playground, great pub (with freecamping ) and a resident cat to entertain the boy! #rangasunite #gingasuniteinkiwilingo

15.01.2022 Had the BEST late walk today! Jamie's been asking us for days to go on a walk around the area where we're staying but we've been busy doing stuff (you get strangely busy 'touristing') but today we went on that walk. We took along the kids from the lovely family that we've met 'next door' who we have all clicked with. So fun! Took me back to the days of home based childcare and of running the toddler room at Goodstart. I've been strangely missing it lately :) ... We did as 'weirdly' as you can walking, giant walking, fairy walking. We discussed whether toddlers would take more steps walking the same distance and whether a giant would take less. We collected rubbish and scored $5 which I'll change to coinage tomorrow and share out evenly because everyone contributed so everyone gets their share :) We found so much rubbish we really needed a bag so we fashioned a bag from an overshirt. We reiterated the 'rules' of picking up rubbish (never touch the mouth of a bottle, never touch broken glass, never pick up toilet paper! and don't touch your face until you can wash your hands). We marvelled over the motorbike/quadbike riders who were riding around and the kids all proved they knew how to act safely around them. Even the toddler! The bikers eventually began showing off for us all doing doughnuts on the quads and wheelies on the bikes which made the sky fill with dust at just the same time as the sun began setting making the red setting sun look fuzzy. The kids slid down a pretend 'Ayers rock' which they also knew as Uluru. All of us are excited to see Uluru in person! Then the kids all decided they wanted to go into a deepish dip in the ground and instructed Mike to "crouch down so that you can't see us until we come walking out of the ditch like Zombies" So they all did! And they made their video :) We had so much fun! <3 Today, we withdrew Jamie from State School and have enrolled him in Home Education which means WE will be responsible for his learning... but after the advice and help from friends and this afternoon, We feel confident we'll rock this! Thank you to those friends... they know who they are ;) We appreciate you SO much xo We also appreciate the vast amount of support we have received from other people. Thank you! Lee <3

13.01.2022 Thanks Winton, Queensland Experience Outback Queensland, Australia, you were great. Jamie (and Mum and Dad!) loved Australian Age Of Dinosaurs Museum and then the world's only known Dinosaur Stampede (2nd to last photo). The Long Water Hole Winton Qld was a lovely spot to camp. Had a lovely rotisserie lamb for dinner one night and a rotisserie chook the next!... Once again a nice place in the world to stop and watch the sun go down and the stars come out.

11.01.2022 Fraser Island Day 2 - still not bogged and a quick shipwreck of a story time by Mike as I found it so interesting I couldn't help but do a little digging to it's story. And Wow, what a cool day. Awesome to visit the SS Maheno. A few phone snaps too. Maheno is apparently Maori for Island. It was originally a passenger cruise liner built in Scotland in 1904 that belonged to the New Zealand union that operated the Tasman sea between NZ and Australia. For the most part being fr...om Auckland to Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney. In 1915 it was converted to a hospital ship and sent to Gallipoli to transport casualties from the Battle of 60 to Malta for treatment by the New Zealand nursing service. It also operated in Egypt and the English Channel transporting the sick and wounded back to England for treatment. In 1918 it then resumed it's passenger ship status until 1935 when it was sold to Japan as scrap metal. It was on it's way to Japan under tow and it snapped it's 17cm thick wire rope tow after encountering a cyclone off the Fraser Coast. There were attempts made to refloat it which failed, so it has now become a major tourist attraction on Fraser. The 4th to last pic is a model of the SS Maheno in the Happy Valley bar/souvenir/servo/general store. The last 3 pics have been flogged off the internet from Wikipedia. 1st pic being the black n white pic, I'm not sure what year it was taken, but it's pretty much in tact. the next pic is from 2007 then 2013. It really gives you insight as to how brutal the sea is. Admittedly from my understanding, some of the original wreckage has been repurposed over the years. I will be giving the Cruiser a bloody good wash inside outside and underside when we get back on the mainland. See more

10.01.2022 No Mike, I won't post that video.

08.01.2022 Last post for a few days. In case anyone wants to read what we got up to in July. Here is a link to what will be a monthly rundown on our new website that I am still completing. Doing this for us to document our travels. But happy to share for anyone who is keen for a read :-) https://www.ourlivesourlens.com/Our-Travel-Blog/July-2020

07.01.2022 We may be unemployed bums, but that's because we now have a child for the hard labor.

06.01.2022 I'm not going to lie, it hasn't been a hard week. No sir, not rough at all

06.01.2022 Can't believe how fast the last month has gone. It's been nearly 3 months since we stopped working and left Cairns. It has been going fast and slow all at the same time. It feels like yesterday we were here in Barcaldine at Dunblane Farm Stay, yet it has nearly been a month. And it feels like a year since I did any work yet just 2 and a half months. The longest time I have ever not worked for. This is one of only a small handful of nights we have paid to stay anywhere, and... it was just $24 per night. This place we had entirely to ourselves. None of the farm sites were in eye-shot of each other, literally kilometres apart. It was just us, cattle yards, and a hot artesian bore with a large yellow tub that we filled via a garden hose and sat in under the myriad of stars watching satellites as clearly spotted as headlights down a highway until our skin was unbearably wrinkled. It was truly a real highlight of our journey so far and something that we will always remember. Mike

04.01.2022 What we are up to right now. Excuse the shitness (don't spell check that, it is a word) of the 'in front of camera' guy, he is used to being behind it

02.01.2022 Sophistication is roast pork and crackling lunch with a delicate red wine. We have somehow changed 'sophistication' into 'boganism' by having roast pork and crackling from a Woolworths packet and drinking the only liquid we had in our fridge a single Piccolo red and scoffed it all down in the back of the Cruiser in the Woolworths carpark. Bloody good though.

01.01.2022 No Lee, I won't post that video.

01.01.2022 Naaaaaw doggy We are staying at a roadside gravel pit near 1770. A gorgeous Bull Arab rocks up and is friendly as hell. I asked a couple of others here if she was theirs to which they said no. So I went for a walk and found a driveway across the road and up a bit and found the owner. Nice old bloke. Turns out she likes to go visit the vans staying across the road, even though she's not supposed too. Her name is Clancy and she is soooo gorgeous.