Frontier Services is a non-profit volunteer organisation who often look for people like us who are long term travellers, with their own accommodation, that may wish to take a break from Campsites and Caravan parks for a while and perhaps HELP OUT fellow Australians in need. The flooding is devastating If you are out there […]
This month we would like to introduce you all to Spare Harvest. Spare Harvest is a new online resource, introduced by Sunshine Coast local Helen Andrews, that allows you to find fresh local produce wherever you are. It works on the principal that anyone with an abundance of food, grown in their gardens can let […]
How it all started. Out of the ashes of Victoria’s 2009 Black Saturday bushfires came an urgent need for fences to be rebuilt and communities restored. Kilmore East sheep farmers, Kevin and Rhonda Butler were among those who lost their fences. Needing to quickly secure their 1,500 sheep, they sought assistance from family, friends and […]
After our stay at Charleville, we headed further north to Longreach. We had been warned as we left Charleville to expect the conditions up that way to be worse as far as the effects of the drought went. We could not imagine how, but soon reaslised what they meant. The country side was barren, with […]
The next stop on our outback adventure was at ‘Balmacarra’, 26,000 acres of cattle country, about 100km North West of Charleville. The drive out was once again on dirt road, this time black soil, which was a lovely contrast to the copious amount of red soil we already had from our trip to Mungallala. ‘Balmacarra’ […]
After spending a few days at our first farm stay for this trip at “Ups n Downs” in Roma, the kids had fallen in love with ‘Bently’ the pig and did not want to leave, but we convinced them we were off to new adventures. Bently & Henry Our next stop was ‘West Leinster’, a […]
Driving a Dozer and Digging Trenches Back on the Sunshine Coast for a week, and looking for somewhere to stay, we were offered a spot back on our friend Ray’s 100 acre property in the Hinterland town of Cooroy. We set up camp high on the ridge, which offered amazing views especially of the sunsets. […]
HELPING OUT FOR YOUR SITE Our first taste of Volunteering for our accommodation was way up in Monkey Mia, in Western Australia, renowned for it’s Dolphins. Eagar and keen to see the dolphins that frequent this area, we quickly volunteered a week of our time for this awesome opportunity. We would get to feed and […]
Helping Hand on a Winery Another HELP OUT experience we had during our travels was in Donnybrook, WA, and once again quite by chance. After visiting the local tourist information Centre, we were told of a winery just out of town that allowed Fully Self-contained RV’s to stay for the night free of charge if […]
HELP OUT’S…..What are they. We first stumbled upon the idea of what we call a ‘HELP OUT’ quite by chance. Still relatively new to the idea of travelling around Australia, we ended up in Margaret River probably at what was the busiest time of the year to be there. Christmas and New Year. With no […]
