Blogs from Coral Bay, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 7

Here we are at Ningaloo Homestead Station Camp Ground tucked in behind a sand dune that leads to the Indian Ocean. We are cooking up enough chow mein to probably feed most people who actually read this blog! Sad to leave Exmouth, but the weather has turned a little and we are experiencing cloud coverage and wind. Not ideal for beach activities. Anyway looking out we see lots of sand dunes with pasture to help feed the 3,000 goats that apparently roam this station. The farmer (camp host!) says that they are tapping into the Malaysian market and sitting on a goldmine. Typical W.A. It’s all about mining!! Anyway it is off to Coral Bay tomorrow, via the dirt road. Not sure about the weather predictions, as most places South are not that warm. Peter here ... read more

Hello! This is a very short one, because there wasn’t enough room in the previous and next photo albums to include them. And the Karijini update was a long one and the swimming with Whale Sharks one will be a long one, so thought I’d give you a break :) Wednesday 2 June - continued - back to Coral Bay After a shower I went down for a nice Vege Burger and was so excited to hear the news that Maff and Emma have booked their trip and that I'll be seeing them in just over a month!!!! Woohoo!!!! Jenny introduced us to her friends Alex and Danny and was excited to show me Danny's jumper that she'd brought back from Peru, it was almost identical to mine so of course I had to go and ... read more

Day 4 Coral Bay We booked a trip yesterday to take a 1 hour tour on a glass-bottomed boat at 9am this morning. Unfortunately, not enough people signed up for it and we instead (paid extra and) upgraded to a 2-hour touring plus snorkelling trip. It should be fun, but it meant we had a couple of hours to kill in which we couldn't really organise anything else, and we're still disappointed at the cost of some activities we'd been looking forward to. Deep sea fishing, swimming with whale sharks and looking for dugongs all lie around the $300 mark, per person. We have to treat this trip as the 'paddle of beer' of the north coast. Each stop is like a sample of ale, starting with the pale ale that is Kalbarri, and moving towards ... read more

Dec 4th - Dec 7th Hitting the open road is the best way to see a country and we were eager to explore the state of Western Australia on our own terms. It took a while to get through the heavy traffic around Perth but soon we were on the open freeway surrounded by nothing but scrubland as far as the horizon in every direction. Simon has been to Perth before and was eager for me to see the Pinnacles which are about 300km away from the city. This is an area of golden desert from which huge chunks of limestone protrude. There are small chunky ones, tall skinny ones and others that stand in little groups. It is quite an unusual sight and we drove around the Pinnacles stopping frequently to take pictures. We had ... read more

Day 191 - Coral Bay Just as well that we went to bed when we did last night because today was another ‘big day’! It’s Melbourne Cup day, a huge money spinning horse race and this is our first experience of ‘the race that stops the nation’! We’re up reasonably early and I wander down to the campground reception to ask if we can book in for another night. The lovely lady there said we can stay as long as we want but at $30 a night we can’t really afford to hang out here forever!! Another night will do though! There’s a three hour time difference between Western Australia and Melbourne in Victoria, and we're three hours ahead which means the race gets broadcast here at midday. Sadly that means we ‘need’ to be in ... read more