Taking the scenic route, one day at a time
We’ve fallen behind on our travel blogs and, in truth, it’s because we’ve been a bit busy socialising and catching up with old friends of late. Sorry about that! We planned on spending a month or so exploring Western Australia’s south-western corner, starting with Perth. Perth WA’s vibrant state capital is home to more than…
Our next long circuitous route saw us heading east from Geraldton and ultimately arriving one week later in the historic Avon Valley town of York, happily free camping along the way. Our trip started in the heart of Western Australia’s wildflower country. Chasing WA’s famed wildflowers was one of our key objectives of this trip,…
Anyone who has been to Kalbarri seems to rave about it. Yet, despite us living in Perth many years ago, neither of us had made the 570 kms trek north to check out what all the fuss was about. That situation was about to be rectified. We were heading to the Kalbarri region for a…
The World Heritage area of Shark Bay had much to entice the Roe’ving grey nomads:- clear blue seas fringed with white sandy beaches, a pristine marine habitat for dugongs, dolphins and migrating whales, one of the world’s rare clusters of stromatolites, and the Australian mainland’s western most point. We decided to base ourselves in Denham,…
At more than twice the size of Uluru, Mount Augustus (Burringurrah) is Australia’s largest rock. More than a rock, Mount Augustus is an ‘inselberg’, meaning ‘island Mountain’. It is located almost 500 kms by road, inland from Carnarvon in Western Australia. The road trip We decided to leave our van in Carnarvon and just take…