Judy & Brian Tour Oz

Holbrook NSW 13 April 2019 Left home just before lunch and cruised out to Jugiong where we stopped for lunch at the Sir George Hotel. No time for play in the park this time, had to head off to Holbrook for our first nights stay. The main reason for stopping at Holbrook was to give the kids a play on the submarine and a ride on the miniature train, which only runs on Sunday and starts at 10 o’clock. It is a train very similar to the ones that were at Kingston and it was a double lap ride around the Ten Mile Creek, with a bridge at either end. Ten Mile Creek is one of the former names of Holbrook, along with Germantown and others. Naturally enough, the connotations of the name Germantown were a bit on the nose by 1915 and so the good people of the town decided to adopt the name of the first Naval VC recipient of WWI, Lt Norman Holbrook, and so the town became Holbrook. The town is more widely know as the ‘submarine’ town, as it sports the superstructure of a full sized submarine,...

On our way from Carnarvon to Exmouth, we took a short detour into Coral Bay, where we spend a very pleasant few days, 16 years ago. The first thing that hits you is that the place, which is virtually one street that goes down to the water, is absolutely heaving with people. Last time we were here it was us and a stray dog. Even allowing for it being a long-weekend in WA, it doesn't really account for the hordes, which includes heaps of children. The place itself has a few new buildings but is basically the same, except bigger and full of people and has two new (from when were there last) huge caravan parks. We only went for a look, and having done a u-turn at the edge of the water, headed back to the main Exmouth road. We made it into Exmouth in a reasonable time, although it seemed like days. You find yourself driving for hours through a sandy dessert, and then you get to the dull grey flat plains. Surprisingly, to us at least, is that the caravan park is packed, just like Cor...