https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:15:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-say-goodbye-to-matilda/ Fri, 25 Apr 2025 01:02:35 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=77879 April 24th, 2025 These rude people who stop responding or don’t show up are taking a toll on us.  So onThursday, we opted to head into the city for the afternoon to the sites of Sydney we were interested in. We took the train downtown again like last week and got off to walk over […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-complete-the-big-lap-in-nsw/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:08:13 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=77639 April 8th, 2025 We crossed the state line into New South Wales today and our first stop was the tourist town of Byron Bay. It actually is very touristy but not as big as we had expected. There is NO free parking so we found a lot near the beach that had spaces and it’s […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/the-great-barrier-reef-and-southern-qld/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 03:21:56 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=77284 March 31st, 2025 Monday morning, the sky was once again clear and promised to be a nice day here in Bundaberg – we just hoped it carried out 100 km east to Lady Elliot! We left the campground around 7 and made our way into the city to get to the Bundaberg Airport. If you […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/central-coastal-queensland/ Thu, 20 Mar 2025 06:39:37 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=77219 March 20th, 2025 First of all, Happy Birthday to our son, Josh, who turns 37 today! We were up at six here in Airlie Beach and left the campground with Thomas and Sandra in our separate rigs to head to the harbour. We had all booked the Whitehaven Beach Cruise in the Whitsunday Islands. The […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/northern-queensland-au/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 05:01:36 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=76692 March 12th, 2025 We crossed the state line from the NT to Queensland in the late morning, stopping for petrol in the first little town of Camooweal ($2.26 – first opportunity since last night. Then it was on the bigger city Mount Isa with cheaper petrol at $1.96 and a Woollies to stock up. Fran […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-finish-our-time-in-the-nt/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 04:33:23 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=76047 March 4th, 2025 Our flight from Singapore landed 15 minutes early, immigration and luggage retrieval went well, got stopped at Customs for our booze and nuts but were cleared and it was back to Matilda via the airport shuttle bus. She didn’t want to start but our trusty jump started solved that issue and off […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-make-it-to-darwin-nt/ https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-make-it-to-darwin-nt/#comments Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:50:57 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=75174 February 11th, 2025 We crossed the Western Australia / Northern Territory state line without incident (even though there are fruit/veg restrictions, there is no checkpoint set up but you must be prepared if you are stopped randomly along the highway). We had decided not to go all the way to Katherine like Sandra & Thomas […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-make-it-to-darwin-nt/feed/ 2 https://calderescapes.com/posts/along-the-north-coast-of-wa/ Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:52:44 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=75155 January 31st, 2025 We were up early, showered and out of the campground in Karratha by 6:30 am – just wanted to get back on the road and make some time and mileage up. It was already over 30C / 86 F at that time and it only got worse as the day progressed. This […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-round-the-nw-corner-of-oz/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 04:32:15 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=74726 January 21st, 2025 We left Monkey Mia with fond memories and would definitely recommend a visit here if you are on this side of the country. It was humid again this morning with mostly overcast skies. We made several sightseeing stops on the way to Carnarvon but first we had to go south on this […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/up-the-west-coast-wa-au/ Mon, 13 Jan 2025 07:57:06 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=74613 January 13thth, 2025 After leaving Perth, we found a dump point in a rest area (didn’t want to dump the tank in our friends’ toilet!) and only went as far as Lancelin where the Lancelin Holiday Park gave us power, water, Wi-Fi, ablutions, a swimming pool with a spa (not very hot though and full […]]]>