September 21-22 From Broome we move to the next phase of the trip to the northwest corner. We started our journey along the Great Northern Highway with the stunning Eighty Mile Beach to the north and the Great Sandy Dessert to the south. It was over 500 km, or 4.5 hours of flat, featureless semi […]

September 14-21 We have just spent a very slothful and indulgent week staying in Broome in a classical Pearling Masters residence with a modern restoration. It was weird staying in a house with lots of rooms, swimming pool and a dishwasher and washing machine. I think it was a little bizarre because we could all […]

This is a bit of a boring post. We are three months on the road on September 22 so it does not seem too unreasonable to post my record of dates, distances, and fuel used… it might be interesting to someone! On September 22, exactly three months into the trip: We have travelled 13,538 km […]

September 7-14 Cape Leveque is the northwest corner of the Dampier Peninsula and is the perfect postcard location. The turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean lap onto the fine white sand against a backdrop of red sandstone cliffs. We lucked out and our beach shelter and campsite were literally on the swimming beach. I suspect […]

The Horizontal Falls are created when the massive tides of the Dampier Peninsula are held up by two narrow gaps in the McLarty Ranges. The tides here are the biggest in Australia and the second biggest in the world (only beaten by Novo Scotia in Canada). The water level can rise or fall as much […]

From Mornington we legged it to Derby (30 August – 1 September). We had run out of everything and needed supplies and a good hardware store to fix or replace the various bits and pieces that succumbed to the abuse of 4 weeks of driving on dirt. It was a pretty basic place to spend […]

The dust, lack of fresh food and general supplies got to us eventually and we made an unscheduled 4 night glamping stop at the Australia Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) camp at Mornington (26-29 August). This is a 92km trip south east off the Derby end of the Gibb River Road. It was a real treat not […]

Mount Elizabeth (16-17 August) is another of the cattle stations with a spectacular gorge called Wunamurra and is the starting point for the Munja Track. The camping was just a paddock out the back with pretty average facilities. The most notable thing for us was how cold it was at night (down to 4 degrees) […]

August 15-23 Bachsten Camp is a remote bush camp in the Prince Regent NP that accessed via a private “road” called the Munja track.   After spending 10 hours driving the 146km of the Munja Track, the six relaxing days that we spent there were very welcome!         The camp is truly remote but […]

This was to be another glamping treat along the way that most certainly lived up to our expectations. The camp is north of the Mitchell Plateau on the eastern side of Port Warrender in the Admiralty Gulf. It is a remote bush camp surrounded by a vast untouched wilderness. The only access to the camp […]