Western Australia
Our WA Road trip – 5149km, 901L fuel, 3750mg caffeine
Our Christmas road trip came close to not happening at all, 4hrs on the phone and 22 emails later we managed to get hold of a motor home. Then a call from Gocamper to tell us they hadn’t actually got the one which we had reserved as they didn’t realise when making our booking that the people who had ‘our’ […]
1Feb2013 | Alex | 0 comments | ContinuedPinnacles Desert, Lancelin
Lancelin is around an hour and a halfs drive north of Perth, Western Australia and is home to the Nambung National Park, Pinnacles Desert and Cervantes beach. Cervantes beach is famous for its world class windsurfing. (Noted on the International Windsurfing Circuit.) If you don’t like the water you can always go sand boarding on […]
20Jul2007 | Alex | 35 comments | ContinuedCape Leeuwin
Cape Leeuwin was only a short drive from Margaret River and thought it would be interesting to see. Cape Leeuwin sits on the very most South Western mainland point of Australia. It is here at Cape Leeuwin that the Indian and Southern Oceans meet, I had previously imagined seeing some sort of tidal line 😉 […]
27Nov2006 | Alex | 2 comments | ContinuedFremantle Prison, Perth, Australia
Fremantle is possibly the nicest city on the west coast of Australia. It’s at the mouth of the Swan River, which is about 10 miles southwest from Perth. Established as part of the Swan River Colony in 1829 by British settlers and named after Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fremantle. Captain of the Royal Navy ship […]
19Nov2006 | Alex | 35 comments | ContinuedCircular Pool, Karijini National Park
Well this was one of my favorite parts of Australia. You really are out in the middle of nowhere when your visiting Karijini National Park. This is where I reverted to being a child again and had a little strop! I just soo wanted to do everything and climb down all the dangerous places and […]
25Sep2006 | Alex | 20 comments | ContinuedKangaroo Island & Flinders Chase National Park
The Sunday Telegraph said Kangaroo Island is “one of earth’s last unspoilt refuges and I agree. Kangaroo Island is in South Australia and is seven times the size of Singapore! The wildlife here is amazing, the Koalas are everywhere in the trees and of course the Fur Seals are incredible. Of course there are also […]
6Sep2006 | Alex | 9 comments | ContinuedDiving HMAS Swan, Dunsborough
This had to be the best dive site I have ever been to. This was me taking a photo during a compression stop above the HMAS Swan. Which is the most expensive Australian warship ever costing $22 million. She was commissioned on the 20th of January 1970 and served the Australian Navy for 26 years […]
26Aug2006 | Alex | 4 comments | ContinuedHamelin Pool, Stromatolites
Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve is one of only two places in the world with stromatolites, the others are at Glacier National Park in Montana USA. I think these ones near Shark Bay are the most interesting as NASA were there just before us undertaking a field trip to examine the stromatolites. They were discovered […]
21Aug2006 | Alex | 2 comments | ContinuedFraser Island, Lake Mc Kenzie
This is Lake Mc Kenzie and was defiantly the best part of Fraser Island to me. It had crystal clear blue water and white silicon sand, it has an area of over 150 hectares and is about 5m deep. It is sat on a gigantic sand dune. The sand is actually silicon which makes this […]
2Aug2006 | Alex | 9 comments | Continued