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Alert Roadworks on the Pacific Highway
Life on the Road

Alert: Roadworks on the Pacific Highway

Take the Pacific Highway, they said – it is smooth sailing, they said!  Last year the Pacific Highway was hard work with all the traffic and roadworks. We were assured that all this was much smoother now, so choose this route as our way home from Victoria last month.  There has been some amazing progress – although we hit some road works just north of Sydney, we could see the progress all along – and noticed the bypasses at Buladelah and Macksville.  However there was still plenty of stopping in northern NSW. The thing that had our jaws dropping as

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Broken Hill - Sunset Sculptures - Rob Blackburn
Camping

Traveller’s update to Starview Primitive Campsite

Broken Hill Living Desert Reserve Images courtesy Broken Hill City Council My wife and I have just completed a 7500 Km round trip to Alice Springs and back, we went through Dubbo, Broken Hill and Port Augusta along the Stuart Highway to Alice Springs and back to Port Augusta, then the Princess Highway from Tailem Bend to Mount Gambier before heading back into Victoria doing the Silo Route and the Grampians, then the Sturt Highway, Newell Highway and the Hume Highway heading back home in Albion Park NSW. We used the Camps 10 extensively throughout the trip and would like

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Coulsons Creek Road Merriwa to Willow Tree reconstruction Image Upper Hunter Shire Council NSW
Camping

Road upgrades in New South Wales give more options for travellers

Coulsons Creek Road Merriwa to Willow Tree reconstruction Image Upper Hunter Shire Council NSW Camps Australia Wide thanks Barry Blair and Upper Hunter shire Council for this alert. It’s time to give you a brief mention of the road between Willow Tree and Merriwa in NSW which is expected to be fully sealed sometime during this coming September. This particular road is some 82km in length, and once completed will provide grey nomads with some great alternatives in terms of (currently) ‘road less travelled’. Since April 2018, the road between Blayney and Crookwell via Tuena is now fully sealed. Broadly/generally

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The Gilmores head south
Camping

Take the back roads

We are just back from a 3,500 km road trip. We’ve driven from Queensland to the snow many times over the years, but each trip we love to travel via towns we haven’t seen before and roads not yet travelled. It’s good to mix it up a bit. 

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