Before leaving Australia Judith and Patrick wanted to go for one last 4WD trip. The ‘Cave to Cave’ trip in the Blue Mountains is a fantastic 4WD trip Simonand I have already done once before.

From Mittagong we enjoyed a great drive winding through the mountains before arriving in Wombeyan Caves. In Wombeyan Caves we stopped for some lunch and went for a self-guided tour through the Fig Tree Cave. As it was still early in the day we kept driving through the mountains before setting up camp at Dingo Dell. The next day we enjoyed some more great 4-wheel-driving through the mountains before arriving at Kanangra Wall. At the lookout we got to see a great view and the magnitude of the wall before going on a walk onto the plateau.

On the way home we stopped at Pulpit Rock for a last, impressive look at the Blue Mountains.

A few weeks ago I entered one of the photos from our trip around Australia into the Intrepid Travel Photography Competition and I am very pleased to announce that my picture has been selected as ‘Photo of the Month’ November.

My image is in the running for the annual grand prize! I will keep you posted.

Number Crunching

I’m already back a few weeks now but I finally got round to doing some number crunching.

In 94 days I traveled 21,351km by car and bought 2,961 litres of diesel. On average we traveled 227km a day, wheres the largest distance we traveled in a day was 615km. We spent $4,259 on fuel and on average a liter cost $1.44. Read more…

After an eventful last few days I’m finally back in Sydney. Judith and Patrick will now continue travelling by themselves and drive the car back to Sydney, hopefully in one piece.

I have spend 3 month and more then 21,000km on the road. I have seen some of Australia’s most amazing landscapes and met some of the loveliest and most helpful people.

I simply had the trip of my life. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hope that this will be the last crazy trip I embark on in my life. All I’m saying I had a fabulous time.

A very special thanks goes to my partner Simon. Without him this would have been impossible.

On the way back from Cape Leveque our car ‘Bruce’ had a major breakdown about 100km north of Broome. This was not the first car trouble we had on this journey but it was the worst, so far.

We were stuck on another 90km of sand track with a broken front axle which meant that the car wasn’t driving anywhere anymore. And to make matters worse we were a very very long way from any mobile phone reception.

The only way to get this car back to Broome without doing any further damage was to organize an off-road tow truck. Marianne hitched a ride back to Broome to get this all organised while Judith and Patrick stayed with the car potentially camping one night in the middle of the road in the middle of nowhere. Not exactly what they had in mind when they planned their ‘Australian Adventure’.

By 11pm they where all safely back in Broome and we were all very happy that nobody was harmed. The next day Bruce got half the front axle replaced but is now back to his hold self.