Sunday, 14 June 2020 Of course we expect winter to be cold and grey but with much to see and do around the region of Mandurah, WA it is no reason to be holed up inside. With woolly hats and jackets as insurance against even bleaker temperatures we set out down the coast to Preston…
Along the Newell Highway, partway between Narrabri and Baradine is an unmarked turnoff to the much-guarded, and spectacular, sandstone caves set in the Pillage Nature Reserve. Unmarked by request of the Gamilaroi people of New South Wales, custodians of the land, who are proud of their cultural heritage of which the caves were once an…
How about these crazy times? Crazy maybe, but we can still have coffee and chat about our week, or the last couple of weeks. The crazy has started to lift in some states here in Australia while for Western Australia (WA) hard borders remain closed, which is odd considering their closest state, South Australia, has…
Another beautiful morning in Airlie Beach, home for the past week. We flagged our original plan for a two-week stay as the midges (small biting insects) were dreadful, and each night we were chased indoors well before 6:30pm. Not a fun way to spend the balmy evenings in the Whitsundays. Nevermind, we packed a lot…
Welcome to what was to have been another Weekend Coffee Catch Up. But you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men. Well, today I’m one of the mice … After selecting photos, resizing and captioning each one, it all disappeared. So no words today because I’m speechless and my…
Welcome to this week’s coffee catch up. It’s an evening cuppa, after another full day and while Basil watches motorbike racing, I’m outside listening to the sounds of campers settling into their evenings. Night creatures are about and birds still chatter. It’s been a warm day in Kununurra, Western Australia but it has cooled off…
It wasn’t a day for hiking one of the trails in the Lesueur National Park but we drove the 18km loop to see the early showing of wildflowers. The National Park was named for Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, a natural history artist aboard the Naturaliste on an 1801 expedition. The French Government commissioned the sister ships, Naturaliste…
With more than 100 campgrounds in National Parks, Western Australia (WA) offers plenty in the way of bush and remote camping experiences. Where we are at the Milligan Island Camping Node, north of Green Head is one of the best we’ve been to, and within a few hundred metres of the warm waters of the…
The outback desert regions have a way of reminding us of our in/significance in the role of intriguing land formations. The sheer size and solitude are eerie and today a soft breeze shushed through these bizarre rock formations adding to the sense of isolation. Handing us the route map, the park would like walkers to…
13th February we left home heading to Adelaide (South Australia) and then west. Today marks 100 days on the road and 8, 000 kms. We’d like to say we’ve been travelling most of that time but COVID-19 had us bunkered down in Busselton, Western Australia, for seven weeks. We held our breath, used hand sanitizer…
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