Cadoux - Elachbutting Rock - Kalgoorlie They call this area the wheat belt, and we drove past hundreds of kilometres of crop (wheat/canola), but there are also a lot of large rocks around this area - enough that you could spend a week driving around to see them all... We stopped at just a few of them. Some of them, like Datjoin Rock, were a bit underwhelming - it's claim to fame was a well believed to have been dug by sandalwood cutters in the early 1900's and that it was the campsite of a criminal hiding out with his wife and twelve (yes 12) kids in the late 1960's. One, Bonnie Rock, turned out to be a town not a rock. But some were pretty impressive. Beringbooding Rock has the largest rock water catchment in ... read more

Carnarvon Something you don't want to hear your repairer saying is "we can't source the parts we need, anywhere". This prompted us to call the manufacturer in Melbourne and explain the situation. So far, with all the issues we have had with the camper trailer, we haven't asked for warranty or help from them. But this time we had no choice - the camper (and many of the parts) are imported and not available in Australia. We argued with them to have the parts air freighted, otherwise we would have been waiting up to two weeks, with no home. They eventually agreed and arranged for the necessary parts to be sent. With the parts organised to be delivered and nothing else to do we decided to take the opportunity to explore Carnarvon. A trip to the ... read more

Coral Bay - Kennedy Range National Park Leaving Coral Bay we headed to Carnarvon for a breakfast stop. I had read of an ice-cream shop that made their own ice-cream - so we thought we'd check it out. It was a bit of a disappointment though, the ice-cream was pretty ordinary (I had expected scoop ice-cream but they only had pre made ice-cream on a stick, and although t had plenty of fruit flavour it was very watery). From Carnarvon we headed East towards Gascoyne Junction and topped up with fuel before continuing to Kennedy Range National Park. Arriving at the campground we drove around a bit looking for a good spot - most of the sites weren't designed for camper trailers and they weren't very flat. We finally settled on a site and setup then ... read more

Cape Keraudren - (Port Hedland) - Karijini National Park We left Cape Keraudren and headed to Port Hedland to collect the bolts and then continue on to Karijini National Park. We arrived at the bolt shop just before 8:30am but the bolts hadn't been delivered yet, so we went and had breakfast while we waited for their courier delivery. We finally left Port Hedland just after 10am, but we had four new bolts and still plenty of time to get to Karijini. The scenery in this area is awesome - I love the colours out here... Arriving at Karijini we went directly to Dales Gorge Campground. The campground hosts were not very friendly and seemed to take it as a personal insult when we asked for a site away from the generator area (obviously they have ... read more

Wolfe Creek Crater National Park - Fitzroy Crossing - Geikie Gorge National Park - Tunnel Creek - Windjana Gorge - Derby From Wolfe Creek Crater we backtracked to Halls Creek to top up with fuel before continuing on to Fitzroy Crossing. Along the Tanami Road there are wrecks of a few cars that didn't make it and Kevin thought he may be able to scrounge a bolt for the camper - he got two. Fitzroy Crossing is a strange place, but it is also the best place to be based for a visit to Geikie Gorge. We have stayed here before so were aware of the local issues, but were warned when we checked into the caravan park to lock up our valuables - and especially any alcohol. We stayed for two nights to allow us ... read more