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travel: Mungo National Park
Posted: 31 October 2025 at 10:03 pm by Davey
Mungo National Park is one of those places you MUST visit, in November 2023 I had the opportunity to tick this off my bucket list!
Read the full article here Read the full article here I found FreeBSD quite easy to install and have never really had any problems with the install and configuring XFree86 o... Read the full article here Make sure to click the chronicles link to access all the chronicle entries. It’s a great feeling hitting the road early on a Friday morning without incident… Rewind a few hours to my stressed state, the plan being to be on the road by 7.30am and all was going to plan until it hit 7am. That’s when the alert flashed on my phone that multiple databases failed to… Read the full chronicle here I’ve been travelling on and off along the Bridle Track for the best part of two and a bit decades, I’ve lived through the peril of driving Monaghans Bluff, seen the Turon bone dry and traversed the new bypass. But!! I have never until now camped along the track. In earlier years pre Bluff land… Read the full chronicle here The iconic pub circa 1872 has closed its doors due to unforeseen circumstances. As quoted on its Facebook page dated 27 Sept. 2025. For me it is a sad day as the Royal holds some fond memories spanning across more than two decades. One of the great places to have a schooner (or three) and… Read the full chronicle here It’s been a well over a couple months since my last post (and camp). Not much has happened in between, the weather has been terrible, I was sick and did I mention the weather!?! I finally got the opportunity to get away, the plan was – well there wasn’t a plan. The plan was a… Read the full chronicle here Picture this, it’s 6:45pm, it’s freezing and you’re starving. You’ve just jumped in your truck with six fish cocktails and chips sitting on the passenger seat. You start driving and the food aroma engulfs the cabin, your mouth begins to salivate, the temptation is too much so you reach over rummaging through the packaging and… Read the full chronicle here Friday night at ‘Wang’ is starting to become a common theme! Knock off work Friday arvo and head up the highway, stop for a feed at Blackheath fisho and arrive at Lake Wallace around 9’ish, freeze your arse off setting up the tent and then warm up by the fire sipping a beverage… Once daylight… Read the full chronicle here Imagine travelling 25km’s along a fire trail to discover the route to the campsite you were headed for had a trail closure that was not documented on the National Parks and Wildlife Services (NPWS) website. Then having to turn back and travel 3.5 hours to reach an alternate campsite! This is the kind of organisation… Read the full chronicle here Getting away on a late February Friday arvo after a long work week is a pretty great feeling, stopping off at a lookout on Mt Victoria to eat a burger and chips makes it even better! And what a sweet spot it is, overlooking the Megalong Valley on a picture perfect late afternoon enjoying the… Read the full chronicle here Another cool high country morning, with the sun rising over the trees in the yonder the prospect of a cracking day was on the cards and so was a sleep in 🙂 Ghost Gully with all its niceties is likely a campground I will drive through but not stop by in any future trips to… Read the full chronicle here You know you’re onto a good thing when it’s so relaxed and chilled that you don’t care to get out of bed. Waking up to a cracker of a day, nothing beats it and the sleep in was well worth it with the amazing view from my doorstep… The night was cool with temps dropping… Read the full chronicle here
travel:
Hill End and back via the Bridle Track
Posted: 14 January 2004 at 7:06 pm by Davey
Hill End is a great place to travel to, the scenery and landscape is sensational, the quiet and private state of being is a
spectacular get away and its historic origins can be traced back to the mid 1800's. From a four wheel drive perspective Hill End
offers some nice little tracks that take yo...
*nix:
Building X on OpenBSD
Posted: 10 February 2003 at 1:35 pm by Davey
I recently installed OpenBSD on a spare box at home, hoping to have a play with it and a possible migration to it from FreeBSD
(which I have been using now for about 2 years)
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