Stuart Highway North

Thanks to Ben, Emily and Lexi for the $20 fuel donation

Go and say good on ya to Frank, who worked us in some drains for $30 fuel and some food and cigarettes

Say Hi, to Jack Harries at the Hi Way Inn, Daly Waters for the $30 fuel we earned for siliconing the roof and sweeping the forecourt.

Just go to the famous Daly Waters Historic Hotel and meet Lindsay, Robyn, their Rodeo King son Paddy, daughter Kate and staff Jess and Brian. It’s famous because, as Lindsay says, ‘everyone knows about it, that’s why’. Good answer from good people. We worked, got fed, given drinks, raised donations at the bar, and had, for the first time in, it seemed like for, for, forever, an airconditioned sleeping quarters.

Good on yer Marilyn Starr

The Dutch fellers, John, Rom and Mark, who donated to our pot.

To Steve Toms, of Top End Explorer Tours in Kakadu, who we got chatting to at the bar in Daly Waters, who donated to the pot too, and who was a thoroughly decent chap into the bargain.

To Barry and Anne, who run the Pink Panther Roadhouse and Pub at Larrimah, and Samantha and Snappy Time the crocodiles who reside within. We worked, got fed, found a bed, and they chucked more than a penneths worth into the charity pot for us. Thanks to you.

Tenant Creek

Our second stop at Tenant Creek and we had another $20 fuel from the fine people at the BP.

Tenant Creek Food Barn donated some groceries to us. Thanko mate.

We stayed at Tenant Creek Caravan Park didn’t we, owing to their munificence.

Wayne at Leading Edge Computers didn’t bat an eyelid at some free internet time.

Mick and Sue Adams joined in with the spirit of things with some work cleaning and paint stripping at their Central Service Station for some fuel and charity money. Working so hard that when a Redback climbed over Anne’s hand as she cleaned she batted not a lid at it, gesticulated like an Italian with her other hand, and called it a weak-ass lilly-livered sorry excuse for a poisonous creature, and to not waste any more of her time! It went away, scolded and said not another word all day.

Ti Tree

Thanks to Ronnie and the Tongan lads at Red Globe Table Grapes. Given a days work we were lucky to arrive at the weekend, drank Cava, Tongan beer with the collective there, who donated $300 of their hard-earned wages to us, to add to the $300 for Book Aid the next day in wages. Overwhelming stuff.

Alice Springs

Thank you to J9 Staunton, who gave us wwoofers some work and donated very generously to the charity, and put up with us as we raced around town looking for work, talking to the radio, and newspapers and that malarkey. A very talented and lovely person she is too, despite not telling me as I sat on the red been-bag the dog uses for ‘personal pleasure’ that I may be more comfortable elsewhere.

Thanks to Ian and Pam Lue, J9’s visiting relatives, for the donation to Book Aid. It was a great beard you had Ian.

Thanks to Jo George and the team at The Rock Tour, Alice Springs, who had no compunction offering us a three day tour down to Uluru, Kata Tjuta, and Kings Canyon. And to Craig, our tour guide, we thank unreservedly, for the excellent way he ferried a bus load of people around and made it fun, informative and easy. An excellent time had by all, I think. Yes, I do think that.

Thank you Wendy at Toddies Backpackers, for working us in the garden and donating the wages to Book Aid. Then fed us steaks at night. Top job.

Thanks to the well-intentioned people at Caltex Alice Springs for the full tank of fuel donated to us.

To Chris, who made us a coffees and a b.l.t each and sat with us at his fine establishment the Red Dog Café, on Todd St mall.

Thanks to the Centralian Advocate for running a story on us

Thanks also to Rowan, the afternoon DJ on ABC Alice Springs who interviewed us.

Hello and thanks to Cousin Jo, Gareth’s effervescent relative, for the donation to our cause. Top bananas cousin jo.

Thank You Andrew Lake and Rob Evans, at the YHA Hostel in Alice, for letting us stay there in exchange for some work.

Thank Derek Goh, at the Tea Shrine, for the fried rice.

Thank you Richie at Rocky Hill Table Grapes, who offered us work picking grapes (I know, grapes, in the desert, but apparently so) and despite only getting a day out of it due to the torrential rain, (I know, torrential rain, in the desert, but apparently so) we appreciate the effort nonetheless.

Thanks to the girls at Gloria Jeans for the breakfast coffees.

We love you April at Wicked Kneads, not only for the breakfast buns, but for the tea time pastry box later on that day. Phew!

As James Blunt sang ‘you’re beautiful’. So we sang in honour of Shelley and the girls at Haven Hostel for the stay there. Happy to work for our beds, and to answer such questions as ‘do you guys like beer? We have a load of cans here, leftover, you want em’ We went week at the knees. Sincerely.

Sorry. To the fella who, as we were being given our box of beer, was asked, over our shoulder, to pay $5 for that can of Pepsi he wanted. He audibly frowned. Fair play, I thought.

Thank you to Tony Dodds at Target, who donated to us our video camera tapes.

Double Dutch! Thanksh to Ed and Girde from Holland who left some beer for us and a pouch of tobacco.

Bonjour! To Yuri Iizuka and Juno, from Japan and Korea respectively. Rovery people.
Thanks to quintessential Chris, from Norwich, for the hat he donated. Very dapper it is and much used in the interim. Obliged to you kind sir.

He may just be the mechanical equivalent of the man whose name he almost shares, come forward Richard Hawkins, Wicked Camper mechanic, top fella and author of The Cog Delusion.

Goodness gracious great balls of fire! Russel at Alice Scrap and Metal, who gave us an afternoons work, sorting through scrap aluminium, de-casing copper wire and generally getting mucky and burning stuff. The wages, of course, went to Book Aid.

Stuart Highway South

Thanks to Edsei Nememo at BP Tenant Creek for the $20 fuel donation

Big hugs to Big John Duncan, who we met while camping at the Devil’s Marbles campsite, who took it upon himself to get us as drunk as drunk could be, fetching drinks from the fridge in the back of his 4x4, played us songs in the 4x4, made us sing to the Kinks in the 4x4, recite Slim Dusty, and generally rocked out with us until the wee hours of the early morn.

To Kersti at Wauchope Hotel and Roadhouse who donated $20 fuel to us.

To Lew Farkas at Wycliffe Wells (Aliens from Outer Space Themed) Roadhouse for the $20 fuel donation.

Mount Isa

Profuse thankings to Darren, Carol and Kym at Mount Isa School of the Air for the tour round, letting us sit in on some lessons, the opportunity to play Santa, the job bagging plastic coins, and all the donations you so generously put into the pot.

To all at Brumby’s Mt Isa, who donated to us some pies, croissants and a lovely iced bun to have for lunch, in the canteen, with the teachers at the School. Naughty but nice. Don’t rest your elbows on the table! Sorry Miss. Don’t you talk with your mouth full! Mmmm-mh Ms.

Thanks to Miner’s Mate, the Caltex Servo for the fuel donation

Biggem up Margret Symons, at Toyota, Camooweal St, who donated to us a fuel cap, seeing that someone left the one we had on the roof of the van after topping up in Cloncurry, Gareth.

Cheers to Bob and Mariann at Colonial Convenience Store on Camooweal St who donated some lunch to us.

Again the IGA comes to the rescue: Alexis and Anita at the IGA in Mount Isa sent us to work at St Vincent de Pauls charity shop, sorting clothes and delivering furniture, and donated some groceries and fuel.

Thanks to everyone at Mount Isa Caravan Park for letting us stay, giving us some cigarettes and being so thoroughly charming.

Thanks to Susan and David at BP Camooweal Roadhouse who donated $20 fuel to us.

Thanks to Big Col, the Road Train driver, who we met at Camooweal Servo and who took Anne in the giant truck to Berkley Homestead, letting her drive part of the way along the home straight.

Maronan Cattle Station, near Cloncurry

We went, we woofed we sampled Aussie life outback station style. Big thanks to the ever-informative Nevenka, her husband Colin, who runs the station, the kids Rose and Kasie, Governess Juile, and Oldfella George, who also taught us much. It was a brilliant experience, and the place where the Outback came alive for us.

Thanks to Megan and Denzil and all the kids who collected donations for Book Aid and helped sell the Showbags Nevenka donated to us for the Cloncurry Races. We raised over $500 that day.


Thank you to Cloncurryshire Council worker Jo Green, who donated the money for twenty minutes of internet time for us at the local library.

Meeh-Meeh to the Debbie Lawler and the kind people at the Roadrunner Roadhouse, MIllwraith St, Cloncurry, who donated £10 fuel to us.

Berkley Highway West

To Pat and Spiro Borg at the Caltex Servo, in Hughenden, who filled our tank for us

Jane Holden fed us tea and sandwiches at the Holden Café in Hughenden.

Thanks to everyone at Richmond Caravan Park who put us up.

Hello and thank you to Bob at the Mud Hut in Richmond for the feed.

Thanks to Mike for the beers you bought us at the Mud Hut.

Thank You Linda for the list of free campsites in Central Queensland

Townsville

The incomparable John McDonald, promotions manager at the Walters Group IGA store there, soothed us with his lemon-squeezy dulcet laidbackedness and enthusiasm for anything beyond the nine dots. He arranged work for us at Camp Quality, a kids camp for cancer sufferers, one of the many local charities he and the store he works for are affiliated with, where we gardened for the day, where we earned some fuel and food from the goodly John and the kindly IGA.

Pleasure meeting with Mark and Nikki at Camp Quality, who do good work, for some beautiful children.

Thank You to Darren, Janine, and Ethan Staunton in Kirwan, for a place to hang our heads for the night. Darren makes an incredible curry. Cheers for the shampoo and cd’s too.

Bonza to Darren, Jon and Sharon at the Network Communications store, in Castletown Shopping World, for the $30 of Optus phone credit.

Bonza too to Lauren, Elouise and Gemma at the Vodafone store in Castletown Shopping World for $20 Vodafone phone credit.

Cheers Den at Den’s Internet, 265 Flinders St, who donated 20 minutes free to us., and invaluable wisdom into the bargain. Mention also to his lovely sister Anna, who helped us out with some names for work further along the track.

Thanks to Very Tall Andrew at the Townsville Bulletin who ran a story on us. He was over tall you know. What’s the weather like up there, we quipped.

To Michelle and Christine at Reef HQ, that underwater aquatic extravaganza, for donating a trip round for us. Made us crave fish N chips.

To all the staff at Mobil Calcium, Charters Towers, who donated a jerry cans worth of fuel to us for the trip out back.

Too easy mate. We rested our perspiring behinds and lay our sweat-beaded brows at Pentland Caravan Park, our first taster of the Outback. It’s big, we agreed.

To Nick and Wendy, at Julia Creek Roadhouse, who donated $10 fuel to us.

Cairns

Beeeautiful. Captain Kerry, a friend of Carol Curtis, the lovely lady from Heaven in the Hills, Maleny, took it upon himself to offer his commanding skippering services to us upon on his yacht, The Paladin. We saluted in honour and went there giddy as spring lambs. G’day too to Deb and little Billie Jean who sailed to Fitzroy Island with us. Deb gave us work for the next day, weeding, and donated money to Book Aid. On’yers.

Thank you to Kerry’s missus, Anna and his lovely daughter, Sarah.

Thanks to the Cairns Post people for running a story on us and making us look good

Walkamin and Yungaburra

Woofing at Erwin van den Muyzenberg’s Cactus and Succulent Nursery in Walkamin. It was a pleasure to live and work with such a man. Thanks for the sizable donation to Book Aid too.
Thank you Jenny, who organised for us to set up our stall at the Yungaburra Folk Festival Market and to all who donated to us helping us raise much for Book Aid.
Hello again: to Lindell Vaudrey and husband Bill from Magnetic Island, who also had a stall at the festival, and donated flip flops and a box of belts.
Thank you thank you, to Braja, Devaka, Param, Vijay and Brendan the Hare Krishna Pure Vegetarian mob who fed us some wonderful tucker right when we were on the verge of collapsing.
Thanks to Sri, Mal and their daughters at Sri’s Tasty Thai for the delicious grub at the festival.
Nice one matey – Charlotte, Paulie, Ted, and Fella, who entertained us during the hot, rigid hours standing there.
Our media careers burgeon - The Atherton Tablelander cover our story.

Tully and Deeral

Honore galore to the munificent lot at Trinity Petroleum Mobil in Tully for the $10 fuel donation.

Good on yeros Con Marneros at Pacific Fasteners in Tully for the tenners worth of fuel.
Hats off to Tony and Jeanne Vicars of Tully Industrial and Hardware for $5 donation

Doffed caps to Sam and Chris Pappalardo of Star Sports and Toy Store, Tully for their donation

Rick and Yvette Terkelsen, fuelled us up, on the basis we buggered off for a few days, so that we could come back, to work a week on Ricks boat. He’s a handsome man.

Kelly Higgins Devine of ABC calls and says hello ‘LIVE ON AIR’. We blush, shyly, and giddily become her pets.

Upperstone, Ingham

Much obliged to Gina and Duane of Rollingstone BP, Ingham who without any ado donated $20 fuel to get us to Upperstone.

Thank you for the memories: Narelle, Kevin, Hamish (McTootle), (Mad, Bad and Inyerface) Baxter, Willow and Little Baby Hugh.

Magnetic Island

Thank you again to Adrienne from Fantasea Adventure Cruises, who organmised for us, at very short notice, the ferry ride over to Magnetic Island. Above and beyone again. Thanks to Jason, the manager, who ok'd everything, and to Michelle, who gave us the tickets and was a charming, lovely person to us smelly people.

It was a pure pleasure to have stayed with George Hirst and Penelope Sheridan at their beautiful spread in the bush. Lovely people, interesting, down-to-earth and funny too. George runs the Magnetic Times the local paper and Pen cycles the most awsome hill on the island to get to work each day. We learnt a lot working with you two. We enjoyed every minute of it.

Thanks to Louis and Louise who were charming and who donated tobacco to two very cheeky impish fidgety fellas

Muchas gracias to Jan Perry of Nelly Bay who invited us to fix some Possom Boxes for her. We did, and thanks for your donation to Book Aid too. Nelly Bay

Steph Chaffey, of Nelly Bay, thanks for giving us more work to do. We loved getting into the mulch and spreading it around. Very Mulch!

Thanks a million to Lindell Vaudrey also of Nelly Bay, who gave us work to do in riddng her yard of 22 years worth accumulated stuff and taking it to the dump. Thanks for your donation to Book Aid and for the gifts you gave us too. Love them thongs! Top Notch belts too!

Thanks to all the people who came and chatted to us, who donated to us, who fed us, gave us beer and said hello at the Friday Night Markets by the RSL Club. We had a great time and raised a few bob too. Good on ya!

Bowen

Peter Madison, who we met in Airlie Beach Markets the day before, hosted us for a cup of tea, where we met up with the delightful Gertrude. Thanks mate, it was a pleasure.

John McLean. They call him Crazy, we call him a gentleman. Brother of Lach McLean, who donated to us in Brisbane a case of wine. John met up with us in Bowen after sailing all day in Townsville, and gave us a place to stay, then organized some work for us to do the next day, acquainting us with Bill Johnston, a true blue Aussie, introducing us to his lovely wife Lynn, manager of the local IGA, who donated to us some lunch, sent us off to The Grand View Hotel to help with the deliveries, where we met his brother Mike, who bought us a cold beer each, then he organised the local paper, the Bowen Independent, asking its editor Stephen Darwen to print some flyers for us, and to forward a story to the local papers up the coast. He also cooked us a barbie and filled us up with fuel. Relentless. Beeeeautiful.

Lynn McLean, at the IGA, who donated to us a trolley full of groceries and gave us the support of the good people of the IGA on our way round. Fantasticly generous.

Gertrude Tissen, she helped us out enormously. Another vibrant, busy, energetic, adventurous, lively, lovely person. Another Queenslander then. Too easy.

Stephen Darwen, manager of the Bowen Independent, who printed for us 500 flyers to take around, and who promised to forward their story onto the local papers all the way up to Cairns and accross to Mount Isa. No worries kinds guy. Thank you.

Strictly Strathdickie? Absolutely Airlie!

Special mention to Cate Morris, living on Percy Island, but visiting her house in Strathdickie, near Proserpine, not far from Airlie Beach, for a bit of a tidy up, and we are eternally grateful to her for that. She donated to us while we were at the servo in St Helen's Creek and then invited us to stay with her, to use her place as a base for a few days. We did, digging some storm trenches for her, and from there things went spectacular.

In Airlie Beach things got off to a blinder! Fantasea Adventure Cruising offered us a visit to the Great Barrier Reef on Friday, if we agreed to dress up as King Neptune and a Mermaid on Saturday in Airlie Markets. Did we hesitate? Of course not. Adrienne and Portia are beautiful. Truly.

To Shane, at Tropix Photography, who cleaned Anne's camera filter for her.

To Beeches Backpackers, who allowed us to collect some money for Book Aid, despite the stern frowns and attempted intervention of an irate bouncer. Cheers dude.

To Con Raptis, of Neptune's Fish and Chips, on the Esplanade in Airlie Beach, who donated to us a fish platter when we needed it the most. Finger lickin stuff.

To the lovely girl at Tribal Travel in Airlie who saw no reason not to let us just have a little time on the internet. Thanks.

To Gordon at Wisdom Health Lab in Airlie, who donated to us three sandwiches for lunch on thursday.

To Flamos kebabs, Airlie Beach, who donated to us our Friday fill. Pretty good too.

The Tourist Information shop let us use the internet also. Cheers Big Fella.

Denise and Adriaan Vanderlugt, of Strathdickie, people we inadvertently bumped into at the market when Adriaan donated to us three caricatures, who as it turns out are friends and neighbours of Cate, and very talented, creative and interesting people. Went for lunch at their house the next day - an eye-opening experience.

Cheers to Peter Madison, one of the stallholders in Airlie Market, who invited us for tea in Bowen. A true blue and lovely man.

To Dave and Julieann at Cafe Mykonos on Shute Harbour Road, Airlie Beach, who donated our dinner to us. Bloody top tucker too.

St Helen's Creek, north of Mackay

Thanks to Yvette, the fetching girl we met at the carstop near Mackay, who helped us out and gave us a sterling good on'yas. Good on you.

What happens when you're out of fuel and homeless near St Helen's Creek, north of Mackay? You pop in to see Lex and Merle, Col and Fiona at the St Helen's Caravan Park that's what. We mowed the lawn and cleaned a caravan and they were fantastic to us. Lovely folk who gave us food, toiletries and fuel. Couldn't havebeen more please with the way we were looked after and treated with respect. Lovely people.

Thanks to the lovely lady at the servo, who allowed us to collect donations outside. You helped us greatly, thank you.

To Gary Cox, an Organisational Psychologist from Brisbane, we met at the Caravan Park, and had a really interesting talk with. You needn't have donated to the fuel fund, but thank you.

Alpaca Farm, Cobraball, Yeppoon.

To the Grice family at Cobraball, near Yeppoon. Leah, all the Davids, Musical Anne, Cheeky Charlie, Jonathan, Glenys, Nathan, Emily, the alpacas, the dogs, the cats, the llamas, the horses, you were all wonderful, funny and a pleasure to get to know and spend time with.
Who knew of the eight countries of Norway and the ways a man makes a woman go 'ooh'. Comedy gold. We loved the set up, large family meals, lots of laughter, talking, piss taking and sharing.

Best and worst? The best was feeling like part of your extended family, and the worst was having to leave. Truly memorable.

To Mike Dalton of Yeppoon, a very interesting guy who was a pleasure to talk to during the Alpaca/Cheekyfellas Open day at Leah and Davids.

To the irrepresible Alby Wooler. The term legend couldn't be more aptly applied. We hope the trees you donated to us to plant on the Grice farm will grow. Bloody Alby!

To Jane Keilau and Luisa Choyce who donated some groceries to us. Thank you ladies.

To Andy Tandoh, and Kerrie Hall who came over to the Open Day and chatted to us for a good while, giving us great ideas and support.

To Gary, who came to the Open Day with his three lovely kids, then came back the next day to give us a fuel voucher. Cheers bud.

Thanks to The Dreamtime Culture Centre in Rockhampton who taught us about Aborigonal life and living.

1770/ Agnes Waters

To the fine people st Miriam Vale Roadhouse and Caravan Park - Mary and Stan, Emma, Christie, Hayley, Jan and Penny and Cindy and Pam at The Star service station. We askled for enough fuel to get us to 1770, and you threw in some pies too. Times like these...

If you ever meet Don Growcott, of 1770 Undersea Adventure, shake him by the hand. He lives in the town called 1770, and runs a dive boat. We didn't get there till late, and only had a day to travel up to Rockhampton. We were gutted we couldn't take you up on the offer of a dive. A gentleman who provided us with a bed for the night nonetheless and educated us on Marine life in the process. Thanks again. Don.

Heaven in the Hills, Reesville, near Maleny

To Carol Curtis at Heaven in the Hills we owe much. We can't thank her enough. She was so good to us. We tried work in proportion to the kindness she showed us, but we didn't even come close. She was amazing and we wish her all the best. Above and beyond. Assistance, support, donations, wisdom, friendship. A trly phenomenal woman.

To (King) Kevin and Jenny, at Heaven in the Hills, Reesville, near Maleny. We can't thank you enough either. Your donations were greatly appreciated and, in one special donation, made two boys very happy.

To Suzie and Giancarlo, who donated to us some funds towards the video camera after we painted their office and did some gardening. Friends of Carol, no worries people, our kind of folk.

This is going to sound trite, but we were overwhelmed by the response we received here. Genuinely beautiful people. Our stop here made the world a very good place.

Glenoak Farm, Kennilworth

To Terry McGrory we salute you.
To Stephanie we curtsey respectfully.
What a time we had at Glenoak Farm, in Walli Creek, in the splendid Mary River Valley, beside Kennilworth.
We couldn't have met a finer fella to kickstart our working life on this trip. We will certainly come back to tell you how things went. A pleasure. A beautiful part of the world, we couldn't get up early enough to make the most of it. He was our first WWOOF host and we were his first WWOOFERS. A finer precedent could not have been set. Terry McGrory. What else can you say?

To Stuart and Maree, Kelly and Emma who were camping at Glenoak Farm. You made us sing, you made Phil sing. Pretty unique. Nice to have met you all.

Kick off in Caloundra

Loretta and Gary from Caloundra who were the first to contact us. We realised we weren't insane when you got is touch with us and proved the outside world existed, and was really responsive to us. Cheers mate also to the whole crew over at theirs, to Zoe and Debbie, Rachel and Markus too. We had a great time. The Camping and Caravaning Guide will come in very useful, as will the t-shirts and the biccies. On'yas all.

We loved the experience of trying to surf. We may have been as skilled as a pair of pork chops at it but we loved it. Gary, you're a dude. Loretta, you are beautiful. We love you all.

All The Good Good People

And I say to myself "What a Wonderful World"

Valley Mall Bin Bag Day

Thanks to Josephine Clayfielf, from Brisbane who donated a box of toiletries to us. The green shower cap is already a firm favourite - and not just for washing in. Interesting. Thanks Josephine.

We forgot to grab yer name, but a massive thank you to the guy who donated his thongs to Phil. Giving the shoes off your feet, says a lot about a man. That was a touching act. Good on ya.

To the stall holder who kept donating clothing throughout the day.

To the guy who walked up to our lovely Anne and gave her the pretty floral dress. What a smashing blouse. Thanks mate.

To Susie and James, who brought us our table, chairs, who also made us our giant banner and contributed valuable homemade biscuits. True Blue!

Mel and Rache, who came laden with comedy gifts and good humour. The cycle helmet Gareth was given will come in useful, in case he hits his head. The pink thongs are already going down a treat. Ooh er missus. Bonza.

Paula, who has supported us all along. She knows her biscuits alright.

To the ever-loving Victoria Cosgrove for giving up her recovery time from the pounding hangover she had to come down and whay-aye support us.

What about Jaime and Mark, who came up from Byron Bay to wish us well and campaign on our behalf. Thanks for the goodies. Don't tell Anne about the smokes. Was great to see you.

To Alvin the stallholder next to us who gave us a Boost Juice each when we were flagging in the sun.

To the stallholder who kept buying us ice creams.

Thanks to Maria and the staff at Fat Rics who donated us a breakfast each.

To Caroline, Gareth's sister's friend, who wished us well and told us of the Principality of Hutt River over in Western Australia. A Kingdom of its own. Cheers Cazza.

Big em up Leanne and Camilla who came with valuable survival items - a Bus Conductors Cap and a flowery sun cap. Goin out bush mate?

To Carlie at Nova Radio who stopped by to wish us well. Happy days.

To the lovely girl working for Map magazine, who initiated Anne's bin bag dress into fashion, giving the world 'skiprat style'. Rubbish never looked so good!

To the humble man mountain Andrew Herbert and the lovely Bella, who helped, mocked, assisted and supported all day and the whole way through. A tear falls cheekwards...

To our mums. We all love our mum.

Thanks to Nerys, Gareth's sister, for the parcel of aid items she sent. The first thing Gareth did was to apply the vaseline to his chaffed inner thighs just like Rosemary Connely used to do. OOooh, the relief. Nice work, sissa.

Thanks to Phil for his irrepresibility. Cheers Phil.

Thanks and diolch to Iestyn Lloyd who sent over a bag of Gareth's childhood sweet fetish Toffee Crumble. You can't buy that sort of loyalty to confectionary, but thankfully you can buy Tofee Crumble. Reu dy ddanadd racs.

Good onya Elizabeth Plant. What else can we say. True champ. Who would have thought disposable undies weren't some terrible irony. Thanks Rizzie.

To the fella who finlly provided Gareth and Phil with some shorts. He didn't know at the time, his girlfriend does though. Thanks luv.

The Friday Thank You List

We have Lach McLean from Lach Stock and Barrell Wines to thank who just rang up and gave us a box of wine to use as bartering and exchange. Now that's not something that happens every day. We will use your top notch plonk wisely. What a fine fella.

A sloppy kiss on the chops for Jeremy Johnston at Base Brisbane Hostel on Edward St for coming through for us and giving the bin bag clad tramps we will by then be a bed until wednesday. A moist tear trickles down our cheek...

Easy Tim at E-Print who worked damn hard under a heavy workload to produce for us 500 flyers. We genuinely appreciate the effort you put in on our behalf, and the flyers are excellent.

Muchas gracias to the exotic balloon carrying interviewer Gemma Snowdon at 4ZzZ Radio. You made us show off the Steve and edited out calling us retards on air. Thank you so much.

Thank you to the wonderful, the excellent and the ever-lovely Elizabeth Plant in Liverpool, Sydney, who has campaigned on our behalf, worked her ever-loving derrierre off and even offered us a car. She doesn't like shoes, but gawd knows she likes a chuckle.

Special mention also to Sheridan from Bondi, who generously donated her time to drive to us the car the lovely Elizabeth had offered to us. We'll catch up with you in Sydney we will.

Thank you Jannah Burgess too for suggesting Gareth talked slower on radio. He. Will. From. Now On. Cheers. Mate. Bo..n..za.

To budding drummer, irrepresible scamp and all-round cheeky imp Samuel Plant who donated his "fish and chips" joke to us. He seldom used it and it has gone to a good home. We'll take better care of it. Now do me a favour son...

hip hip!

The past few days have been immense for us. The response to our idea has been fantastic, and the support we've received has doubled our efforts to make sure this succeeds. There's no way we can do this without people like those mentioned here. This is the love. Hark!!!


These people here helped get us started, got us off the ground and gave us hope we weren't daft.

All of our family. mums, dads, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles. Ain't a shared genetic make-up great! Three cheers for the DNA! Knowing you're all behind us makes us all more determined and braver. Thank you all for your time, effort and generosity. It's a shame you couldn't make it Paula. Thank you for everything you've done.

All our friends. for encouraging us at the beginning, for giving us ideas to run with, for spreading the word around, for feeding us chicken when we were bleary eyed arranging things, for donating to Book Aid and the Fuel Fund, for keeping us on our toes and tip-top, for being honest and criticising us when we needed it. We are proud to call such a beautiful bunch our friends. We didn't know a web widget from a bearded midget before we knew Geroge Hurrel. We love you guys! Easy Tim.


These guys here liked the cut of our jib and invited us to tell the world about how we cut it so fine. We gathered pace thanks to these jolly souls.

Drive Show host Kelly Higgins-Devine, and all the lovely people at 612 ABC Brisbane. Our media debut couldn't have been made easier. We'll be talking to you again.

Simon O'Brien with The Brisbane Times who eased us through our first interview making us feel very comfortable and relaxed, and credit goes to him for editing out the swearing. Thanks for the coffees by the way. Top fella.

Andrew Smith at discover camping who offered to supply us with our camping needs. Easy going, friendly, a pleasure to talk to. Helped us out with vital kit. Immesurable! Top notch.

Beautiful Charlie's Angels Leanne and Camilla and Boss John at wicked campers . Who gives idiots like us a campervan? Wicked Campers do. Kindred spirits and adventurours themselves their enthusiasm for our trip overwhelmed us. They've gone all out to help us along. Too easy mate. Top bananas.

We lost our Radio Phone-in virginity to 4BC 1116 News Talk with Alex and Rod. They were gentle and caring and we all had a lovely chat with them. We don't know what they look like but we love them anyway. Thanks for the support, and talk to you soon!

Big thanks to Dave Ferguson at Toucan Display Systems down in Sydney, who donated to us the display stand we'll be using to grab attention in the Valley Mall on sunday and also as we move around. A gentleman.

How could we leave out the irrepresible Alvin and Nicky at Hunter Express who donated their freight service to us in getting the display stand over to Brisbane. No fuss, no worries, easy does it. Nice one.

What about the spandangling people at wwoof then! The sparkling Tam donated to us free memberships to their online community of nationwide contacts. Looking forward to seeing where this opportnity takes us. Couldn't be more pleased with this. Check them out.

Crystal Creek

We were only passing through, and lo and behold, found ourselves indebted to Michael Davies, of Crystal Oasis Palmetum, in Mutarnee, near Paluma, who gave us a few days work for a donation to Book Aid and a little, well, a lot, of beer.

Can I get a rewind? And a hellyeah! To the Midnight Mission Team at Crystal Creek – Jody, Charma, Kat, Jarrod, CJ, Jack, Jenny, Brad and Colin.

To the Ghost of Evel Kinevel (is he dead?) for the stunt-like bike lessons Anne made good use of when she flew through the air like a migrant turkey on the back of a speed machine.

Cheers Mate

If you are mentioned on this webpage it means you have helped in some manner or form to be closer to achieving our goal. We three, Gareth, Anne and Phil thank you dearly.

Deeral

He may be small, but by lord he’s handsome. The irrepressible Rick Terkelsen, his beautiful wife Yvette, hosted us as we worked, bogging, sanding, and bogging and sanding Rick’s Catamaran, with Michael Surland. Well fed, entertained, guided with stories and advice, a 20 litre vat of red wine, we loved it in Deeral. The Terkies filled our tank and the jerry cans up, and donated our weeks wages to Book Aid. They also saw us into the coconut trading business, introduced us to what a chain-mail abattoir vest can do, and made sure we were clean and tidy and smelling like beautiful tulips. Top Class Acts all round.

Thanks to Daz Hart who we met down by The Boulders while going for a swim, he was playing an Affrican guitar, and we got chatting. He donated us a CD of his choonz. Thanks mate.

Kelly Higgins calls again, thanks for the interest K-Hig.