Blogs from Denham, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 2

After a late departure from Margs on 6th June (aimed for 11am, left 2.30pm!) we hit the highway north and managed to find ourselves a nice little spot to have a fire & cook up some burgers just north of Harvey for our first night. Not the best sleep with trucks roaring by on the highway, nearby power plant going off, cats foofing around about where they wanted to sleep (how EVER will we cope without our wood-fire & comfy couches!)…never-the-less it was grand to be back on the road with only these small worries! On to Perth, Jeff saw both his hip specialist & a new Doc to review his back/workcover situation, and although the hip doc would like to keep Jeffs case open until Oct/Nov, the back doc thinks Jeff “won’t get any worse”. ... read more

Shark Bay is a world heritage site and rightly so, it contains so many wonders within its ample, protected waters. The first of which was located at Hamlin Pools, a sheltered super-saline cove. Stromatolites, their name sounds interesting, the biological and evolutionary significance of these cynobacterial organisms whose presence on earth dates back 3.6 billion years is pretty impressive...But to look at they are simply a collection of lumpy rocks. We respectfully noted the tiny bubbles of oxygen that made their way to the surface and thanked Mr Stromatolite and his ancient relatives for this basic act which made it possible for animal and human life to exist. Suitably better informed about the beginnings of life on earth we left the respiring rocks to it and continued our drive up the cape to Denham. It was ... read more

PORT DENISON TO DENHAM Monday 10th May, We left Port Denison early after 5 relaxing days, (it’s a great spot) and headed to Geraldton to do some shopping. The HMAS Sydney Memorial was quite impressive and worth a visit. Arrived at Kalbarri early afternoon, set up and went for a walk into town. Tuesday 11th May, Spent the morning doing the walks and gorges down south of town. They were as good if not better than what we expected on the Nullabor. Spotted some kangaroos hopping around then saw a pod of about 25 + dolphins swimming along the base of the cliffs. We watched them for quite a while and got some good photos and video of them. In the afternoon we went on a cruise up the Murchison River and saw a lot of ... read more

Day 200 - Denham to Whalebone, Shark Bay Our alarm went off early this morning, we’d set it deliberately as we wanted to be able to get some more blogs uploaded before we left the caravan park for a bit more free camping. Each time I do this task early in the morning we inevitably get to catch up with Ed as he’s always up really late back home! It works very well and this morning was no exception. Thanks for the shout out Ed, always great to catch up with you. With the wind having dropped overnight we were presented with another beautiful outlook this morning, a perfectly calm Indian ocean with a few yachts bobbing about on top. One fellow lady camper even remarked that it was a ‘million dollar view’, she’s probably not ... read more

Day 198 - Gladstone Scenic Lookout - Denham Nikita Howells, come on down, you’re 18 today! OMG! That’s like so amazing! Happy Birthday chick, we’re very sorry that we’re not available to be the drunken Aunty and Uncle at the party but there will be plenty of others around to take our place! Ha ha! Hope you have a fabulous day. What happened to the wind?! Not long after ‘lights out’ it just disappeared completely! Not that we’re complaining, we got a great nights sleep but it was just a bit of a surprise considering we were parked on the top of a ledge in the open air. There’s no rush this morning, in fact we’re still very much undecided where we are heading. From here we can either carry on down to Kalbarri or take ... read more