Spelio had these slides to sort, and the diary to Blog one day.
“Two of my aunts Dorothy and Betty drove around Australia in their Beetle on a great adventure which Betty has written up in a 100p typed diary, and Dorothy photographed the trip with a 1000 Kodachromes.”
Betty 'looking towards Byron Bay' with Gi-Gi on hill, Jan 1963 |
Betty climbing Transit Hill, Port Macquarie, Jan 1963 |
Betty in flooded road, Queensland, January 1963 |
Canefields on the first stage of the around Australia trip in Gigi the VW in 1963 |
Dorothy climbing Transit Hill, Port Macquarie, Jan 1963 |
Dorothy on 'Razorback lookout Coolangatta', Jan 1963 |
VW in floods, Queensland, Jan 1963 |
4 miles of Port Douglas beach to drive along, Feb 1963 |
Approaching Ingham and the Halifax bridge, Feb 1963 |
Betty and Ron looking at Black Mt Cooktown, Queensland, Feb 1963 |
Betty driving Gi-Gi off truck after crossing the Herbert, Feb 1963 |
Cooktown, Queensland, Feb 1963 |
Cooktown-Helenvale, Queensland, Feb 1963 |
Dorothy at hotel on Magnetic Island, Feb 1963 |
Evelyn and Betty, Magnetic Island, March 1963 |
Betty on Gi-Gi on the Mount Ebenezer Road, April 1963 |
The Olgas at 1.30pm on April 6, 1963 |
The Olgas from Ayres Rock, (VW at base of the Rock), late afternoon of April 1963 |
Caravan at Scarborough, May 1963 |
Dorothy doing the morning chores, somewhere in Western Australia, May 6, 1963 |
Dorothy in Boab prison tree near Derby, May 15th, 1963 |
Stop for a beer then on towards Onslow Whim Creek, 17th May 1963 |
Shannon River, WA Southern area of the state, Sept 1963 |
A garden for charity on the Port Wakefield Road out of Adelaide, Oct 1963 |
A salt lake en route to Arno Bay, Oct 6th, 1963 |
Betty on arrival at West Beach, Oct 7th, 1963 |
Betty, Whyalla, Oct 1963 |
Ceduna, South Australia, Oct 1963 |
Charity garden, Oct 1963 |
Filling up water bottles near Gi-Gi on old Eyre Highway, Oct 1963 |
Filling water can before Eucla, Nullarbor water tank, Oct 1963 |
State border, Oct 1963 |
Alice Springs telegraph station, 1963 |
Betty at campfire, 1963 |
Betty at house, 1963 |
Betty at lake, 1963 |
Betty beside VW, 1963 |
Dorothy on Cairns mud flats, 1963 |
Dorothy on Nullarbor, at the mailbox of Nullarbor homestead, 1963 |
Dorothy relaxes in Gi-Gi in the Kimberley, 1963 |
Gi-Gi heading across an outback river crossing, 1963 |
Gi-Gi VW running repairs, 1963 |
Muddy road, 1963 |
On the way up to Queensland, 1963 |
On the way up to Queensland, 1963 |
Tropic of Capricorn in Queensland, 1963 |
VW at highway, 1963 |
VW heading down hill, 1963 |
VW rear with Betty somewhere remote, 1963 |