November 11-17 We spent a rather hectic week in a house, south of Perth, in the historic port town of Fremantle. The house was in a great location close to all the major attractions, local cafes and restaurants, with easy access to the trains to Perth. At first it seemed rather opulent, but interestingly by […]

The next leg of the trip is our journey down to Perth where we stopped in Kalbarri and Green Head.

October 31 – November 5   Shark Bay meets, not just one, but all four of the criteria for becoming a World Heritage Area and is another one of those amazing places. It is here that the red earth of the Australian desert meets the white sands and turquoise waters of the ocean making for […]

October 23-30 The next leg of our journey took us to the southern end of Ningaloo Reef, with a few nights in Coral Bay and then further down the coast to Three Mile Camp at Gnaraloo Station. We went to Coral Bay with some reservations. We had briefly been there a week earlier to meet […]

We have spent the last three weeks in the North West Cape enjoying the riches of the Cape Range National Park and Ningaloo World Heritage Area. Here the landscape is remote and dramatic, but the focus is all on the oceans and the diverse range of marine life that calls the Ningaloo Reef its home.

  I got to sit in the copilot seat and was allowed to steer the sea plane on some of the trip to Horizontal Falls where we landed on water. We also got to feed and touch sharks. There was a very fast boat that took us across the falls… They were a lot of […]

This is a bit random, but WE SWAM WITH A WHALE SHARK! It was so exciting, so I thought I would post it… more on the rest of our Cape Range experiences later. Yesterday, 9 October, at exactly the half way mark through our trip, we went out on the Ningaloo Blue Eco tour around […]

Kimberly Costal Camp We took a helicopter to KCC and landed in a helipad made of crushed shells. It was fun in the helicopter with headphones and talking into the microphone. We had yummy dinners and lunches, like Alex's caught barracuda and fries by the pool. I enjoyed meeting Olly the Olive Python who lives […]

September 29 – October 3 From the natural wonders of Karijini we spent a while in the mining centres of Tom Price and Karratha. The sheer scale and ingenuity of the effort that goes into mining the resources is incredible, and might just dominated this blog! But first the usual stuff… We spent two nights […]

September 23-26 Karijini is the second largest national park in Western Australia. The park is most notable for its four prominent gorges that cut through the red banded rocks of the Hamersley Ranges and cross the Pilbara. We camped at the Eco Resort in a stunning location overlooking the park. Unfortunately, the facilities did not […]