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Living at 40
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2023
After four decades on this Earth, we finally realised that life is as rich as you make it. We kicked off our fifth decade with a bold new philosophy: living life at 40. Our journey began with a three-month trip to Cape York, but it didn’t end there. Most of the time, you’ll find us plotting and planning our next epic adventure in Australia in our trusty Jayco caravan.
We’re an ordinary family of five, navigating suburban life with home loans, bills and commitments. Yet, we harbour a passion for exploration, seeking out new places and documenting our travels across this beautiful country. We’re far from TH-cam or video experts-no fancy cameras, no microphones, and a drone is way beyond our price range. But none of that matters-because we’re living our best lives and building that internal core etching, moral-fibre forming, life-long memory bank.
Come along with us and enjoy the ride on our adventures living life at 40.
We’re an ordinary family of five, navigating suburban life with home loans, bills and commitments. Yet, we harbour a passion for exploration, seeking out new places and documenting our travels across this beautiful country. We’re far from TH-cam or video experts-no fancy cameras, no microphones, and a drone is way beyond our price range. But none of that matters-because we’re living our best lives and building that internal core etching, moral-fibre forming, life-long memory bank.
Come along with us and enjoy the ride on our adventures living life at 40.
Homeward bound Cape Trip Round Up
In our final video from our 3 month Cape York trek we reflect on this life-changing experience. We talk about our favourite places, how we manage it, how the van went, and our advice for any other families considering a trip like this.
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Alstonville & Station Creek
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We head back into NSW and start our trek home. We stay at an overnighter at Alstonville Showgrounds and then spend a couple of nights at Station Creek in the Yuraygir National Park near Coffs Harbour. Station Creek was such a nature paradise with plenty of bush sites, lots of local wildlife and pristine swimming locations in either the creek, at the inlet near Pebby Beach or Pebbly Beach itself...
K'Gari Fraser Island Day Trip
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We take a day trip to the beautiful and rugged K'Gari or Fraser Island. We set off with ambitions to cover a list of sights but soon realise we are utterly unprepared. We visit the Maheno wreck, Eli Creek and Lake Garawongera but with this scratch of the surface we are definitely left wanting more.
Tin Can Bay including Rainbow Beach, Hervey Bay and Maryborough
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In this episode we spend a few days based at Tin Can Bay. We make life long memories feeding the wild dolphins, spend the day checking out the sights of Hervey Bay and get our Mary Poppins on in Maryborough.
Elliott Heads
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We leave the country behind and head out to the coast and spend a week at sunny Elliott Heads. We explore the sights of Bundaberg and tour some of Australia's most famous beverage factories ;-) We also take some time to relax and chill out spending time swimming, fishing and exploring the beaches, rivers and rockpools of Elliott Heads.
Lawgi Heritage Park & Farm Stay
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On the way back to the coast we stop off at Lawgi Heritage Park and Farm Stay. We had THE BEST two nights here at this amazing little farm. The kids loved seeing the menagerie of animals: Clydesdale horses including a two week old foal; pigs including a new littler of piglets; water buffalos; Texas longhorns; cattle; alpacas; sheep; a pony; a donkey; a mule; chickens; ducks; a corella; dogs; an...
Sapphire
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In this episode we visit the famous gemfields around Sapphire and Rubyvale in central Queensland. We try our luck and find heaps of Sapphires at Gemfields Fossicking Park and then we visit Miner's Heritage for an underground mine tour. Well and truly addicted to finding that big stonker of a sapphire, we even try our luck in the dry creek bed behind the Blue Gem Caravan park where we were stayi...
Destination unknown
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After leaving Winton we are headed East but don't really know where. On the way we stop off at Longreach and Barcaldine for a look before continuing on our meandering to nowhere.
Dinosaur Trail Part 3 - Winton
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We make our last stop on the Dinosaur Trail in the wacky and wonderful town of Winton. In blaring heat we visit the Australian Age of Dinosaurs and round off our three part Dinosaur tour. We were absolutely blown away about the volume of fossils and dinosaurs found in Queensland.... something we didn't really comprehend beforehand. Also fortunately when in Winton we visit at the same time as th...
Dinosaur Trail Part 2 - Richmond
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In this video we go to the second stop on our Dinosaur Trail adventure. We enter the wonderful underwater world of the 150 million year old marine dinosaur fossils in Richmond. We didn't originally plan to stop at this place but we were oh so glad we did. It was super interesting and most of the fossils were so well preserved. After Richmond we take a flying visit to Julia Creek to take some ti...
Dinosaur Trail Part 1 - Hughenden
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We start our trek on the Dinosaur Trail. On the way we stop at one of the best hidden secrets in Queensland.... Porcupine Gorge. We stay a night at the Pyramid Campground and trek down to the gorge to swim in Galah Creek in front of the spectacular Pyramid. We all agree this was the best 24 hours of the trip! The campground was just epic and the experience in the gorge was like no other. After ...
Babinda and Innot Hot Springs
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In this episode we stay at the donation camp at Babinda Rotary Park and take a look around Babinda Boulders and grab lunch at the famous Babinda Bakery. We even see our very first wild croc on Russell River. From here we head inland to celebrate Sarah's 40th birthday at Innot Hot Springs.
Paronella Park & Bramston Beach
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We head just south of Cairns to Mena Creek to the beautiful Paronella Park. Originally built by Jose Paronella and opened in 1937 this magical rainforest wonderland has been dubbed the Angkor Wat of Australia. After enjoying the wonder of this place during the day and night we say goodbye to the crew and visit the rock slides at Josephine Falls. We then settle in for some much needed r&r at Bra...
Cairns
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We spend a brilliant five nights in Cairns. We do some running repairs and cleaning and we fit the replacement window at the back of Maxine. We also take some downtime to visit Hartley's Crocodile Adventures and take a day trip out to the Great Barrier Reef on Reef Magic. All of this while staying at the most awesome caravan park in Cairns at Lake Placid Tourist Park. Definitely one we will be ...
Cooktown and Bloomfield Track
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In this video we spend a couple of nights in Cooktown to explore this historic town and it's surrounds. We take the Bloomfield track to Cape Tribulation and go swimming at Mason's swimming hole in the Daintree Rainforest. We also stop at the famous Lion's Den for a drink on the way back and put our calling card on the bar with the millions of others. And to top an awesome few days off we stop f...
Cape York Part 4 - Waterfalls and Weipa
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Cape York Part 4 - Waterfalls and Weipa
Cape York Part 3 Alau Beach and Bamaga
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Cape York Part 3 Alau Beach and Bamaga
Cape York Part 2: Punsand Bay and Pajinka
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Cape York Part 2: Punsand Bay and Pajinka
Cape York Part 1 - Coen, Bramwell Junction & Jardine River
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Cape York Part 1 - Coen, Bramwell Junction & Jardine River
Savannah Way Undara and Cobbold Gorge
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Savannah Way Undara and Cobbold Gorge
I'm really enjoying this series. I hope you film your Darling River run.
Thanks @FergHyde. Yep we definitely filmed Darling River Run - thanks for the suggestion ;-). Hopefully we can get these episodes out soon.
Cool vlog . Hi from Adelaide 😊 we have some vlogs too 😊
What tyre Preasures on the dirt were you running.
40psi for van and 30psi for car. We didn’t want to go down too much as there were still quite a few tar sections amongst the dirt 😃
Really enjoyable episode guys, continued safe travels
I hope your troubles are over. the wife and I did the Cape this time last year. Had a ball.
Instead of taping drawers…take them out and place on bed. No breakages and they don’t move. We’ve done plenty of dirt inc the Cape last year and that’s what we do