Stopped for a While - has stories from the odd, the quirky, and just downright funny visitors to The Peaceful Place, on the Fraser Coast.
Travellers, by the nature of the name, travel. When they get here, to the Peaceful Place, they realise that they could "Stop for a while"
They have yarns to tell, travel yarns, and their stories are here, just without the cool drinks and maybe a little poetic license. Unique travel tales that become part of "The Peaceful Place"
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Barry McCaul - Travel Yarns and Peaceful Place Storyteller
Stopped for a While | Debbie: "More Summers Behind Me Than in Front"
Debbie bought a franchise over the phone, rented a house over the phone, and drove to a town she'd never seen.
Years later she's stopped for a while at the Peaceful Place on the Fraser Coast, with a dishwasher in the van and a bucket list that still has the Nullarbor on it.
At the end of this episode, we pause for 60 years since the Aberfan disaster in Wales. Read more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster
In this episode, Debbie takes us from Lithgow to Hervey Bay by way of a Brisbane coffee shop, a caravan, a breakup and a month-to-month stay that turned into home. We hear about Darwin on a New Year's Eve whim, the bling in her van, why van life means there's always someone to say g'day to, and her plans for the Gibb River Road and a trip across the Nullarbor. And her take on the future: "Got more summers behind me than I have in front of me."
Stopped for a While is an audio-only storytelling podcast of travel yarns from the caravan travellers who pull up at the Peaceful Place on the Fraser Coast, near Hervey Bay. Brought to you by MacMouth Media. Music by Ben Clayton.
More at stoppedforawhile.com.au, plus Facebook and Instagram.
14 Oct 2026
Stopped for a While | Steve and Carol: “We’ve Got to Give It a Go”
Steve and Carol left England 21 years ago with two kids and a simple deal: give it a go, and if it doesn't work out, you can always go back. They've never looked back.Since then they've lived in a van, done what they like to call a half lap of Australia, and been buzzed by an Air Force plane.Steve and Carol dropped in to the Peaceful Place on the Fraser Coast for a holiday from Brisbane, and we pulled up a couple of chairs for a yarn.In this one:Two years living in the van, and why you can't do a lap in three months.Three weeks stuck at Green Hill Lake, across the water from Ararat Jail, with the fish-and-chip shop for company.The day an Air Force plane buzzed them on the road into Katherine, and why nobody got it on a dash cam.Leaving England, and what friends back home say now: "I wish I did that."A Land Rover that needed rescuing, a long tow home from Elliott Heads, and the Ranger that came next.How they found the Peaceful Place on Wikicamps, and the sunset they still hadn't seen.Stopped for a While is an audio storytelling podcast from MacMouth Media. Caravan travellers, grey nomads and retirees pull up at the Peaceful Place on the Fraser Coast near Hervey Bay and tell the stories behind their journeys. Find every episode wherever you get your podcasts.
28 Sept 2026
Stopped for a While | Peter H: 78 Kilometres for the 78 Lost Every Week
Peter has been a bank lender, a floor and wall tiler for 45 years, and a fixture around Corowa and Mansfield. He tells us how a table for one at the Tin Can Bay yacht club turned into a second chance at love — and why every September he walks 78 kilometres for the 78 Australians lost to pancreatic cancer each week.
Peter lost his wife of over 50 years to pancreatic cancer just eight weeks after her diagnosis. Since then he's raised thousands for Pankind's Remember September campaign, and he wants more people to know the numbers behind it.
Support the cause any time of year: https://www.rememberseptember.org.au (https://www.rememberseptember.org.au)
Stopped for a While is the podcast about the travellers who roll into the Peaceful Place on the Fraser Coast, just north of Hervey Bay, and the stories they bring with them. Brought to you by MacMouth Media.
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