Spelio had these slides to sort, and the diary to Blog one day. He scaned them ready for Betty’s 90th birthday in Mrach 2014, 50 years since the trip.
“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.”
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| Betty ‘looking towards Byron Bay’ with Gi-Gi on hill, 13th Jan 1963 |
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| Betty climbing Transit Hill, Port Macquarie, Jan 1963 |
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| Betty in flooded road, Queensland, January 1963 |
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| Canefields on the first stage of the around Australia trip in Gigi the VW in 1963 |
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| Dorothy climbing Transit Hill, Port Macquarie, Jan 1963 |
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| Dorothy on ‘Razorback lookout Coolangatta’, Jan 1963 |
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| VW in floods, Queensland, Jan 1963 |
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| 4 miles of Port Douglas beach to drive along, Feb 1963 |
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| Approaching Ingham and the Halifax bridge, Feb 1963 |
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| Betty and Ron looking at Black Mt Cooktown, Queensland, Feb 1963 |
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| Betty driving Gi-Gi off truck after crossing the Herbert, Feb 1963 |
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| Cooktown, Queensland, Feb 1963 |
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| Cooktown-Helenvale, Queensland, Feb 1963 |
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| Dorothy at hotel on Magnetic Island, Feb 1963 |
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| Dorothy in ‘old tram from early days’, Port Douglas, Feb 1963 |
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| Evelyn and Betty, Magnetic Island, March 1963 |
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| Betty on Gi-Gi on the Mount Ebenezer Road, April 1963 |
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| The Olgas at 1.30pm on April 6, 1963 |
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| The Olgas from Ayres Rock, (VW at base of the Rock), late afternoon of April 1963 |
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| Betty and a morning wash-after cleaning the oil filter, Western Australia, May 6, 1963 |
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| Caravan at Scarborough, May 1963 |
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| Dorothy doing the morning chores, somewhere in Western Australia, May 6, 1963 |
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| Dorothy in Boab prison tree near Derby, May 15th, 1963 |
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| Stop for a beer then on towards Onslow Whim Creek, 17th May 1963 |
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| Shannon River, WA Southern area of the state, Sept 1963 |
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| A garden for charity on the Port Wakefield Road out of Adelaide, Oct 1963 |
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| A salt lake en route to Arno Bay, Oct 6th, 1963 |
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| Betty on arrival at West Beach, Oct 7th, 1963 |
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| Betty, Whyalla, Oct 1963 |
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| Ceduna, South Australia, Oct 1963 |
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| Charity garden, Oct 1963 |
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| Filling up water bottles near Gi-Gi on old Eyre Highway, Oct 1963 |
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| Filling water can before Eucla, Nullarbor water tank, Oct 1963 |
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| State border, Oct 1963 |
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| Alice Springs telegraph station, 1963 |
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| Betty and termite mound, 1963 |
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| Betty at campfire, 1963 |
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| Betty at house, 1963 |
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| Betty at lake, 1963 |
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| Betty beside VW, 1963 |
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| Betty has a quiet smoke in Perth, 1963 |
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| Dorothy on Cairns mud flats, 1963 |
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| Dorothy on Nullarbor, at the mailbox of Nullarbor homestead, 1963 |
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| Dorothy relaxes in Gi-Gi in the Kimberley, 1963 |
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| Gi-Gi heading across an outback river crossing, 1963 |
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| Gi-Gi VW running repairs, 1963 |
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| Muddy road, 1963 |
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| On the way up to Queensland, 1963 |
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| On the way up to Queensland, 1963 |
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| Tropic of Capricorn in Queensland, 1963 |
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| VW at highway, 1963 |
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| VW heading down hill, 1963 |
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| VW rear with Betty somewhere remote, 1963 |
