The homeward stretch began as we left Darwin behind with its coldest day on record, struggling to get above 21 degrees all day. Too cold here, time to head south (Ha Ha, that’s one for our Darwin friends). We stayed one night in Katherine then moved on to stay the next at Bitter Springs, Mataranka. … Read More Heading down the track.
I could be talking about the rare and exquisite pink diamonds which are mined in this Lake Argyle area but I found another jewel a bit more accessible and affordable for everyone! We only moved 70 kilometres from our last stay but this destination was on our must do list and it was one that… Read More Lake Argyle – Jewel of the Kimberley
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!
Our next leg of the journey took us to Exmouth, where we started seeing huge termite mounds followed by sheep crossing the road about 30kms before town and then emus greeting us on the way in.
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
After Esperance we travelled around 60kms east to Paradise, or Lucky Bay as it’s more commonly known. Lucky Bay is in the Cape Le Grand National Park, you may have heard of it and seen pictures of kangaroos lounging on the pristine white sand of Lucky Bay. I thought you’d have to be lucky to… Read More Paradise Found!
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