We went for a trip to Katoomba while in Sydney to see the famous Blue Mountains, the Three Sisters and the raging gorges and waterfalls of the scenic New Souith Wales. Katoomba, the township of the Blue Mountains region, is a couple of hours from Sydney by train so we headed off early doors for the trip in the county. The train ride itself was pleasent, plenty of nice scenery on the way and also a good way to see the huge sprawl that is the Sydney suburbs, we passed the huge Olympic Stadium on the way and seen some Kangaroos [View Full Entry]

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Greetings from Melbourne, well really from Kings Cross in Sydney as it's a week later but you ken what I mean. We arrived in Melbourne to drop auld Bertha off at the car hire place and after driving around the airport for ages we finally found the shop. I'll not go into details here (as it makes me dry retch even thinking about it) but needless to say emptying the chemical toilet wasn't the best thing we've done on the trip, actually it may have been the worse if it hadn't been for that night with the cockroaches, but that's another [View Full Entry]

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We took Bertha on an exciting adventure along the Great Ocean Road from Adelaide to Melbourne, some 1200 KM's South East along some cliff hugging coastline. The scenery was amazing, the 12 apostles, London Bridge, Port Campbell, Mount Gambier, Torquay, Angelsea etc.. One thing we didn't count on was the weather, it was dreech! - Freezing at times, one night, in a place called Port Fairy, it was -3 overnight, and we were hudled in our tank of tin, I almost set fire to myself to keep warm but we just turned on the heating instead. The camper was a lap [View Full Entry]

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One of the big draws to Adelaide was that I have family there, on my Dad's side. I think Fiona spoke about meeting Ron and Sue Ireland in the leaving Perth post, Ron is my Dad's cousin, my Gran's maiden name was Ireland. Well Ron and his family (my Gran's brother Peter, his wife Jeanie, and their 5 kids) moved to Adelaide in 1959, the rest of the family still live there (Ron married a lass fae Perth and moved there) although sadly Peter and Jeanie have passed on, and they had another son, James, in Australia, so there's 6 kids, [View Full Entry]

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Well we know where we're goin', but we don't know where we've been, and we know what we're knowin', but we can't say what we've seen. And we're not little children, and we know what we want, and the future is certain, give us time to work it out...... We're on the road to nowhere, come on inside, etc, etc. That's not strictly true, well maybe it was for the Talking Heads but we did really know that we were going to Adelaide and we were positive we've just left Perth. So on to South Australia, we've spent the last 4 [View Full Entry]

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The distances between places in Western Australia are unbelievable, you can drive for about 8 hours and only see two petrol stations, an emu or two and 333 thousand dead and rotting Kangaroo Carcasses (lovely!). Thus, we have had to stop in a couple of places with no real tourist attractions but just for a nights sleep before the next mammoth journey into the dessert. Most of these places have been all right, and we really quite liked Port Hedland, however Dongara was another story. We had to stop in Dongara on our way to Lancelin and booked in to the [View Full Entry]

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Shell Beach near Denham is a beach, which in places is five metres deep in shells. Over the years pieces of shell have blown onto the beach and formed a 'shell beach'. It was lovely when we went there as there were no other people, just the two of us and all the shells. I collected some pretty shells while Andrew played photographer setting up nice shots and running up hills to join me in them - very funny to watch. Enjoy. [View Full Entry]

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Denham was our next stop in the Shark Bay area, ye I did say 'Shark' Bay. I was a little worried and rightly so as we were soon told not to swim in the area as Great Whites regularly visit the shallow waters and may take a fancy to a wee bit human every now and again. Denham is a bigger town than Coral Bay, but very nice never the less. The main attraction of tourists in this area is the friendly Dolphins at close by Monkey Mia. There has been a dolphin feeding programme going on there for years and [View Full Entry]

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The world's oldest living thing, this was a quick stop on the way to Shark Bay, or on the way from Shark Bay, I cannae remember, anyway, does it really matter? These 'things' are fossilised micro-organisms, so stick that in your pipe and smoke it Dr Twiseltoes, you said that I'd never learn anything about Chemistry, shit maybe he's right, maybe this is bioligy? I've digressed again but the pain never leaves you, the pain of Dr Twiseltoes, my 2nd year Chemistry teacher that is. Let me explain. We were in class, as required, and me and Mogga were at the [View Full Entry]

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Wow, Coral Bay is a beautiful idyllic wee place, I love it, it's my favourite place in Australia! There is just one street, a campsite, hostel and small hotel and a lovely wee beach. We spent three days here enjoying the tranquillity and beauty and also making friends with some fish. We had swithered about going diving but you have to go on a 3-day course before and it's a little pricey so we went for the snorkelling option which was absolutely amazing. We were taken out to the Ningaloo Reef on a glass bottom boat so we got a sneaky [View Full Entry]

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