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| living outside gives you a front row seat to natures wonders, sunset and sunrise, everyday. |
It's go light or go big with a trailer, which seems to be a bit much for just me so ultra light, get rid of things I don't need make room for water and petrol. Outback Can be a bit dry I hear.
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| Mittens found a spot to sit. |
Back in cairns, and my mate James moved back to Brisbane, leaving me and the cat to find a new home.
Feeling somewhat lonely the cat has decided she is my new travel buddy, Mittens the cat, missy, miitty, kitty call her what you like she doesn't listen, lol.
We camped out at the Mulgrave River, Ross and Locke Park, stayed here for quite a while, lived down by the river, good thing its dry season, this nice sandy beach would be underwater in the wet season. Mittens loves it here, lots of place to explore, animals to chase and smells to smell, she frequently disappears for the whole day, sleeping in the bush somewhere, then turns up at dinnertime and sleeps in the tent, on me, has to be on me even laying on my side, she perches on my shoulder.
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| Its a cats life. |
Some times I cant find her when I want to go to town, so I just leave her there, and she turns up when I get back to eat her dinner and get some pats, or ill take her in the truck, she loves going for drives, finds a spot to sleep, wedges herself between something to help with the bumps and corners, or sleeps on my lap where I can anticipate the bumps and hold her still.
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| Wild Food, peeling some coconuts, yum. |
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| Caribean pan drum festival, in Cairns, huge international bands playing here, wicked sound out of those old steel drums. |
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| New max trax fit neatly under my new table. |
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| Old trax gota go, got me out of alot of bogs. |
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| Mittens replacement if she keeps disappearing. |
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| These look heavy, get rid of them. sell them |
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| ohh so thats what the red stuff dribbling off my roof was. |
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| Another festival in Cairns Botanical Gardens, great atmosphere, from the beer tent. |
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| These bags will hold me still through the rough 4x4 tracks. |
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| keen to get out and explore. |
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| new compact tackle bag. |
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| I caught a turtle, mittens shit herself, thought it was a rock come to life. |
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| Mulgrave River camp, fill the drinking water, then have a bath, I mean swim. |
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| Having brunch with mitty, down by the river. |
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| loves going for drives, good excuse to do more sleeping. |
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| cat hammock, I didn't know they existed either. |
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| cracked open the duty free, tastes even better out of my mug. |
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| this is known as a wood rose, its the parasitic mistletoe plants "roots" or interface with the host tree. |
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| nice paddle on the Mulgrave River, I go most days, so peaceful. Mittens doesn't like to join me, I tried. |
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| relaxing, having a whiskey after dinner with my new mate. |
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| Camp site |
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| early morning sunbathing, a good way to wake up. |
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| dinner, fresh caught. |
Sell:
Tarp & poles set up
old max trax
extra fishing rods
Give away:
Extra clothes
extra tie down straps
Restock food:
Dry foods:
jerky,
dry fruit
Food prep:
Reduced bone broth
Soup
Rendered fat
Freeze vac pac fill freezer
Other things to Do
Sort through truck to reduce weight
sorting out dry supplies
cooking and vac packing
jerkey
find passengers - Mittens!
final pack up, fuel up,
Bye Cairns, up to Pormuraaw.- new place to stay by the sea too, so should be lots of fishing - yahoo!!
02:02
Lance Dean
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