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16 - 23 April 2012 From the coastal paradise of Ningaloo Reef, we headed east towards the ancient treasure known as Karijini National Park. With an overnight stop to break up the long hot drive, one memory that sticks out was the plague-like proportion of flying bugs at House Creek Bridge Rest Area. Another one of those rest areas where you can't really shake that distant feeling that there could be some crazed lunatic hiding amongst the bushes - watching, waiting until you fall asleep to make their move... Even though I'm sure most travellers have that niggling feeling from time to time, you tend not to verbalise it because it gives the feeling or thought more credit somehow. Karijini National Park is the sort of place that you just cannot miss if you are even ... read more

28 March - 5 April 2012 What an amazing place!! The further north we travel, the more stunning the landscape becomes. We took the coastal road to Kalbarri which is an awesome little town with scenic coastal cliffs, a beautiful national park and a picturesque river running though it all the way to the mountains of the national park. We stopped off at most of the lookouts along the Coastal Cliffs, fished off the jetty, went four wheel driving through the bush along the river, took the boys to the daily pelican feeding on the foreshore (where they both got to feed the local feathered friends), went swimming in the park pool every afternoon to cool down, and spent a day in the national park. The national park was as amazing as people had told us ... read more

6 January - 15 March 2012 Well, our time at Coogee has finally come to an end. Looking back on our time living on the "other" side, I have some mixed but mostly happy memories bubbling to the surface. It has been a memorable experience living on the western side of the continent, albeit only for a short time. All in all, it has been 7-8 months (in two separate stints) living over in Coogee. The location has been brilliant - a very short stroll for the simple pleasure of feeling those fine white grains of sand between your toes and watching the most stunning sunsets plonked on the sand with a glass of plonk in hand. Holding on as tightly as humanly possible to those images of my two little boys running in and out ... read more

6 - 19 December 2011 As we continued along the southern coast of WA, we fell more and more in love with the area. We based ourselves at Parry Beach to indulge our senses around the Walpole-Nornalup area as well as the beautiful Denmark. Whilst at Parry Beach, we had light rain most of our time there but it didn't dampen our experience in the forests. We also met several other young families who were travelling and doing much the same as us. We've been on the road a year now and met one young travelling family up until now and at Parry's we met three in the one camp spot. It's great to chat with them and pick up some tips and ideas regarding travel spots and "kid stuff". We spent a day in Denmark ... read more