This is a line from my favourite poem “My Country” by Dorothea Mackellar and the reason I love this poem is, as anyone who has ever travelled in Australia knows, the words resonate so deeply yet so succinctly. This line in particular kept jumping into my mind on the last road trip where we hugged the coastline… Read More I love Her Jewel Sea
The road trip that we have just completed allowed us to see just a snapshot of Western Australia but we packed in as much as time, money, road conditions and weather would allow us to. Our plan from the beginning had been to see Western Australia, a state we hadn’t been to before and basically… Read More Let’s check the Stats.
Our next stop was about half way between Port Hedland and Broome, a spot we’d heard about called Eighty Mile Beach. It’s just a short 10km detour off the highway, or so we thought. The road was a bit more corrugated than we expected so slowly we crawled our way in through the red dirt… Read More 80 Mile Beach and We Made it to Broome!
We are driving north away from the Shark Bay region and back on the highway, probably a couple of hours into our travels when the Landcruiser feels like it’s not riding as smoothly as normal. We pull into the next roadhouse to check tyres when we hear a bit of a rattle under the bonnet… Read More Limping into Carnarvon
This was one of the must do things on our list when coming to WA and that was of course to go to THE most westerly point on the mainland, Steep Point. We didn’t know much about it other than where it was before heading over here and then the more we found out about… Read More Shark Bay Region Finale – As West As It Gets
Hello Denham, our first stop in the World Heritage area of Shark Bay. The meeting place of three climatic zones, home to dugongs, loggerhead turtles, dolphins, rays and sharks. And also the best welcome we’ve received yet…emus at the entrance to town.
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