'WE'VE BEEN ON THE ROAD FOR 8 YEARS!'
New Idea|January 13, 2025
Meet The Grey Nomads Travelling Around Oz
'WE'VE BEEN ON THE ROAD FOR 8 YEARS!'

Grandparents Jude and Ray Smith have been travelling around the country for the last eight years. For them, the natural beauty of Australia never gets old.

“It was going to be a 12-month thing. But then we took early retirement and we’ve been on the road ever since,” Jude tells New Idea from their current camp in Esperance, WA. “Cape York was incredible. Crocodiles galore and the people we met were so friendly.

“The sunrise at Uluru was spectacular. It had been raining the night before, so there was water cascading down the rock.

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