Taking the scenic route, one day at a time
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…
Quobba Point Still hugging the Western Australian coastline as we head south, we came across a bush camp nestled into the sand dunes at a place called Quobba Point – about 70kms north of Carnarvon, and a million miles from cares. Bliss! Quobba offered spectacular sunsets, long walks on the beaches as well as up…
Our main reason for wanting to visit the world heritage Ningaloo Reef was to tick off a major bucket list item:- the chance to swim with whale sharks! Ningaloo Reef is one of only a few places on the planet where whale sharks appear regularly in reasonable numbers and are relatively easy to access. They…