Preparing to get back in the saddle

Duty done, we are flying back to Australia on Monday to reclaim the beige from the H&J's front lawn and move on. We've decided to modify our plans in the short term as we've not got time to go through the Northern Territories to get to Cairns for the eclipe and Kevin coming to visit, so we're going to leave that for now and cut straight across the Nullabor plain to Brisbane, and then work our way up the Queensland coast to Cairns

We still need a couple of weeks in Perth to get the caravan kitted out and to battle with some Australian bureaucracy, so have booked to tow onto a beachfront site at Quinns Rocks, 20km up the coast from Perth for a week from next Sunday, then we will set off and hope to make it to Brisbane by the end of September. Gives us more time to explore Queensland up to Cairns for November before heading down to Sydney for christmas. We should be away from civilization for less time this way, so can continue to work out the caravan and what we need to live in it once we get over to the east coast

I've had to get a new visa as my original was granted last August before we booked our inital flights and has now expired, so unless we have any other emergencies I should be able to stay until next September, so we will revisit north Western Australia and the Northern Territories next May - August