Geo: -31.4821, 118.279We left Cervantes with sunny skies and decided to keep driving until we had had enough. This took us past Merredin and arriving at a free camp the other side of Southern Cross. These free camps are managed by WA and most are huge. They have toilets and seating, loads of secluded area for vans and most have camp fire sites.It finally started to rain that really fine shitty drizzle and after living in a warmer climate for 7 weeks it was darn cold. Out came the ugg boots and jumpers. We were excited to have a camp fire so we got out our rain jackets and sat there in the rain for awhile. Finally we had to admit defeat and go inside. No power so no heater. We watched a movie and then ... read more

Geo: -28.7731, 114.611We have been watching the weather now for a few days (since we had TV again) and they keep forecasting rain, but we woke again to blue skies and sunshine. David is still in shorts but it is getting cooler the further south we go.Geraldton is huge with a population of 40,000. That is more people than we have seen in 7 weeks!They even have a Target!!! The vibe here is very active and becoming cosmopolitan with renovations to the foreshore and building massive homes on every vantage point available. Geraldton is very hilly and the amount of money spent on some retainer walls would pay for a house. The port is enormous and there have been 6 huge ships out on the horizon and more in the port.We took a look at the ... read more

Geo: -25.9279, 113.534On the way to Denham (population 800) we took a detour to visit the Hamelin Pool which is a large shallow bay containing thousands of Stromatolites. They are some primitive life form which apparently scientists say helped create earth by increasing oxygen levels. They take hundreds of years to grow and you can still see the wagon tracks through them from when the farmers loaded wool onto ships.We pulled into Denham to find we had one of the best sights in the park (we thought so). Great view and large site with minimal traffic. What more could we ask for. Day one saw us out and about to view the local sights. We went to Eagle Bluff where you can see manta rays, sharks, dugongs, sea turtles etc. but like the camels in the ... read more

Geo: -21.9277, 114.126Hi everyone,We had such a long trip from Ningaloo to Exmouth (about 1 hours drive). We called into most of the camps at Ningaloo along the way. Exmouth is a small town but the building of new suburbs and homes astounds us. There does not seem to be much here as in mining but they have built a huge marina and very posh homes around it much like Hindmarsh Island at Victor. There is a Naval Base here but that seems to be fairly self contained. We are only staying one night here but we are so excited to actually have our gadgets working, to have power, to not worry about water, to do the washing(sad I know) but the bets bit is to have TV tonight. YaY.We tried to visit the beach here ... read more

Geo: -21.6363, 115.112Wow there is sooo much going on up this way. There is a huge salt works here with its own jetty. They load the boats via a very long conveyor belt straight along the jetty onto the ship. There is also a boom with gas and the whole town has been taken over by construction/mining/salt workers. We were lucky to book into this park as it has about 50 or more dongas for workers. There is also 3 very large boats in the harbour which house workers and vans everywhere. Apparently this park had about 50 van sites before this boom, now they have about 19 sites left. They are building 60 apartments and heavens only knows what else.The beach is amazing. Millions of shells and when the surf goes over them it makes ... read more