Bushfires
Something to get used to here is the bush fires. During the dry season, you can look in any direction on the horizon and see smoke. Fires are lit everywhere, every day. For city kids like us, it’s a big deal to see a bushfire. But around here in remote […]
Cracker Night
Some things here in the Northern Territory are hard to believe. For example, you can drink and drive a boat. You can legally purchase a crossbow without a license. And for one day a year, FIREWORKS are legal. It is to celebrate Northern Territory Day. Growing up I never had […]
King Ash Bay Fishing Classic 2013
Earlier in the year (usually Easter long weekend every year) was the King Ash Bay Fishing Classic. It’s the biggest comp held by the club each year. This year because of all the rain we had over Easter, the competition was postponed until the May long weekend. This didn’t have […]
Bing Bong
Not far from King Ash Bay is a place called Bing Bong. When you exit King Ash Bay and get to the end of the dirt road you come to a T intersection bitumen road. This is called Robinson Road. If you turn left, you go towards Borroloola. If you […]
Master and Commander
Somehow I managed to convince my old man to let me borrow his boat. We had taken his houseboat out before (under escort) but this time it was the 5 meter runabout. And I was going out alone as well. Unescorted. The reason why I was going alone as the […]
Wet Season Drive To Borroloola
Driving from King Ash Bay Fishing Club to Borroloola during the Wet Season. The local town near King Ash Bay is called Borroloola. Population maybe 2,000 in the region. Borroloola is where we drive to to pick up our stock for the kitchen from the transport company. The road to […]
Houseboat Adventure
After working 49 nights in a row in the kitchen, my parents (who live at King Ash Bay) offered to give us a night off and run the kitchen for us. They own a small houseboat, and they let us take it out for the night. It was wonderful to […]
The Outback Life Change
Jazz and I met on the Gold Coast and got married there. We had lived together on the Gold Coast for years doing the same thing day-to-day. We were definitely stuck in a rut. We both decided we wanted a life change… We found out that King Ash Bay Fishing […]
Farm Camping with Friends
Some of our best friends recently moved to a 100 acre property outside of Bundaberg. They had barely unpacked the last of their boxes when we were on the front doorstep for our first visit. The first thing we realised when we arrived is how beautiful the farm is. It […]
Wooyung Beach Holiday Park, near Pottsville NSW
This is not the sort of place we would usually stay at. We like to have our own space And we like to have the dogs running around off their leads at times around our campsite. The reason why we came here is because we wanted to camp somewhere by […]