Category: Australia 2024

So on our way home now but in an effort to delay the inevitable return to a British winter for as long as possible we have chosen to spend four nights in Singapore to explore this city/country (as a city-state Singapore is both a city and a country). Although I have been to Singapore before Read more

For our final night in the motorhome we decided to return to Fremantle, this is the place that we ended up after arriving in Perth airport 27-years ago with nowhere planned to stay and jumping on the first backpackers bus that ended up taking us to Fremantle as opposed to Perth which is where we Read more

Approaching the outskirts of Perth we arrived at Yanchep National Park where we had decided to spend the day exploring the park and the night at the campsite within it. Something that has struck us throughout our journey is the standard of facilities provided within the national parks for visitors whether it be the provision Read more

Arriving in Geraldton there was a definite sense we were re-entering civilisation. As the first city we have encountered since leaving Broome it comes with its benefits; restaurants and coffee shops and its disadvantages; more people and traffic. The main point of interest we found in the city was the Western Australian Museum – Geraldton. Read more

The Kalbarri National Park is interesting in that it has a split personality; there is the inland section centered around the Murchison Gorge and you have the coastal section dominated by the wild and dangerous coastline. Inland The Murchison Gorge is carved by the Murchison River which is the second longest river in Western Australia Read more

The Shark Bay World Heritage Area is quite an amazing place; it is home to some of the oldest life forms on earth (even before Jo and I got there), it has one of the largest and most diverse sea grass beds in the world and has the second largest dolphin research centre in the Read more

Coral Bay 150km south of Exmouth is Coral Bay where we decided to spend our next night continuing to experience the Ningaloo Coast. The town Coral Bay is named for the bay upon which it sits and although I am in danger of becoming blasé to the natural wonders of Western Australia as we drove Read more

En-route to Exmouth we opted for a night stay In Onslow after leaving Karijini National Park. Onslow very much had the feel of a dying town, it doesn’t have the benefit of direct access to the Ningaloo Reef with its attendant tourist trade as its southern neighbour Exmouth does nor the industrial mining economy of Read more

Leaving Port Hedland for the 280km drive in land (out back) we were excited to be heading for the Karijini National Park. The park cuts through the Hammersley Range and is dominated by 15 red rock gorges, these are deep and narrow fissures in the surface of the otherwise barren and featureless landscape and are Read more