There is something magical and almost mystical about great train journeys.Iconic associations spring to mind…..The Oriental Express,The Trans Siberian Express,our own Blue Train and of course some of those Inspector Hercule Poirot murder movies,one of which was set on a train.When planning our travels through Australia there was no real connect with their World class train journeys until Sue’s brother,Rory Lynsky,traveled on The Indian Pacific from Perth to Sydney during 2008.A bit of research and there it was…The Ghan,a 2900km train journey from Darwin to Adelaide.Not onl [View Full Entry]

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Distance traveled 4060km(100%).Stayed two nights.Washongi was starting to sense “mission nearly accomplished” as we swung back onto the Great Northern Highway for the last time.The sign board read Darwin 797km’s.About 30km’s further along we crossed the state line into the Northern Territory and this was in itself an interesting “crossing”.Just keep in mind the following….the NT has a land surface area of 1349000 sq km(SA equals 1215126 sq km)and a population of just over 200000.Lots of space with not too many occupants.When you enter the NT two thin [View Full Entry]

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Distance traveled 3276km/4060km(81%).Stayed two nights.Another very short hop from Kununurra to Lake Argyle(70 kms)suggests we are dragging this out a bit…..not really wanting to get to the final destination?Not quite.One of the hidden upsides of being part of the campervan fraternity is the amount of information you share with your fellow ‘vanners.And thus it came to pass in Broome that we befriended an Australian couple by name of Les and Sharyl Tuton….grey nomads from Queensland.Les is a recently retired engineer and a brief “How are ye?” turned into a fascin [View Full Entry]

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Distance traveled 3206km/4060km(79%).Stayed two nights.The distance to be covered between Wyndham and Kununurra was a mere 100km making it the shortest leg of the journey so far.Despite it’s relative brevity,it did present an opportunity for quiet reflection.On that day(5th June)it was our 34th day since leaving Perth on 4th May.That morning we had checked out of our 11th camping site so in no small way we have seen and experienced quite a bit of what WA has to offer.How do I adequately articulate what we have seen and done?I wouldn’t even start to try and craft a suitable summary [View Full Entry]

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Distance traveled 3216km/4060km(79%).Leaving Fitzroy River Lodge early meant that we were once again on the road just after sunrise and as good as the sunsets are,there’s plenty to enthuse about the sun slowly lifting on a distant horizon and then gradually filtering it’s life giving,golden rays across the flat plains.The mystical and majestic boabs standing tall add their own special beauty.Joining the Great Northern Highway we spotted a fellow early traveler and we opted to guess/spot the next car.Sounds like a game for seriously bored kids but background to this is simple&helli [View Full Entry]

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Distance traveled 2558km/4060km(63%).Stayed 1 night(essentially a one night hitching post)and leaving Broome early with a 300km journey ahead meant that,after a good 5 night break,we were back on the road again.Importantly,we left the NW Coastal Highway and now found ourselves on the Great Northern Highway which headed eastwards into the Outback and Kimberley region.It is also called “The Savannah Way” which is very apt as the countryside started to change away from semi tropical and treed to open grassland with far fewer trees to be seen.We both remarked that if one removed the eu [View Full Entry]

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Distance traveled 2230km/4060km(55%).Stayed 5 nights.The journey to Broome was to be our biggest distance undertaking to date so we slipped quietly out of Point Samson at about 06h15 and then witnessed a stunning sun rise which was accentuated by it’s steady golden advance across the dry,flat landscape.The NW Coastal Highway threads it’s way inland with the ocean about 40kms away and the relentless flatness of the countryside continued.Washongi has high elevation up front with a large front wind screen providing a panoramic view of the road ahead and the surrounding terrain.The roa [View Full Entry]

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The Day in the life of a Campervanner by Roo- Slewer- Sue Before I start, for those of you who don’t know me well I am a very slow starter in the morning. Usually Tim has gone to work early so I can wake up slowly and quietly. Well my day starts with the swish and crash of the sliding door of van opening (same as side door of combi) as Tim goes to ablution block. Then he returns with a swish and crash of the door. The kettle is then put on, coffee cups clonked out of the cupboard, coffee [View Full Entry]

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Distance traveled 1535km/4060km(38%).Stayed 2 nights.With heavy hearts we left Exmouth early at 07h15 headed for Point Samson about 830km further up the coast.The key reason for being a little sad to leave Exmouth is simply due to the fact that it has so much on offer and we barely scratched the surface.A revisit for a longer time period has been shoved into that ever filling bucketlist.The routing along the North West Coastal Highway took Washongi about 300kms inland which meant we started to get a glimpse of the hinterland although not quite into the Outback.Relatively easy countryside to de [View Full Entry]

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Distance traveled 1260km/4300km(29%).Stayed 6 nights. On 21st May(day 18),a short 150km journey to Exmouth which is located on the same peninsula which juts out off the mainland as Coral Bay.On one side is Exmouth Bay and on the other the northern tip of Ningaloo Reef in the Indian Ocean.Exmouth was almost destroyed by a cyclone in March 1999 but has more than recovered with a brand new marina development under construction likely to change the character of the sleepy little town for ever.The other landmark here is a joint US/Australian communication center which has at it’s apex huge ma [View Full Entry]

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