Western Australia
The next stop on our Western Australia adventure was The Pinnacles Desert. These wonders of nature have been gradually emerging from the land over centuries as the winds blow the sand away from around them grain by grain. The nearby visitor center tells us that scientists are not quite sure how exactly these calcite formations [...]
Next stop on our trip was Shark Bay, home to the famous village of Monkey Mia. Monkey Mia is often one of the first places people think of when pondering Western Australia. For over 50 years dolphins have been visiting its shores, getting up close and personal with the local people. The history of this [...]
The next 4 days of our trip were spent in absolute relaxdom (did I just invent a word?). Coral Bay was a couple of hours drive from Exmouth and was probably my favourite stop on the whole trip. We parked up in the camp site and didn’t drive a single km for 3 days. Everything [...]
After around 9 hours of driving we arrived at Exmouth on the North West Cape. The journey was mostly uneventful after we actually hit sealed road… Our good old sat nav took us through a “short cut” out of Tom Price which comprised of around 50kms of dusty and bumpy dirt tracks, but we were [...]
So! Off we set for Karijini National Park, fully stocked up on food and drinks, a little weary from a long couple of days driving but raring to go. We arrived at the park around 10.30am and as we got out of the van to pay our visitors fee we noticed just how alone we [...]
It turned out that our Tom Tom disagreed with Google Maps over which way we should go, which was a little worrying but we stuck with it as we were still generally pointing “up”. A few hours of driving and we were well off google’s idea of our course, but Tom Tom took us through [...]
Welcome the first blog post of my Western Australia road trip series! Sonia and I have spent the past few weeks traveling around WA and in lieu of being able to get online whilst on the road to chronicle our trip along the way, I will be doing so now and over the coming days. [...]