Blogs from Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 14

Back in Exmouth again! After 7 days in the bush we needed a stopover with ‘Electricity’ and ‘Showers’. After spending more money at the supermarket we caught up on washing our clothes and ourselves and enjoying some time pool side before taking off in the morning and heading back to the bush. Matt’s Eye View After a night in Exmouth for a shop and a shower, we headed away from the surf and beautiful reefs of Ningaloo and what felt like it must have been the pinnacle of our journey around WA. Heading as much east as north now, our next stop was Forty Mile camp. We found a red dust camp ground and an abundance of grey army fishos, staying for “around 6 months”, a quick scan around and I was thinking...why, I guess the ... read more

25 - 30 April HI Guys. We have driven over 1200 km and are now in Exmouth. On Friday we are booked in to go swimming with Whale Sharks which are the biggest fish in the world (up to 12 meters long). We'll go though a quick summary of what we have been up to so far. We landed in Perth late on the 24h of April and checked into a cheap hotel. The next morning we got our campervan and started driving. We stopped driving after about 4km and did shopping and ate breakfast in the supermarket carpark ---in our campervan! The next stop was the Pinnacles (about 300 km away). We went for about an hour walk and the highlight was 2 emus running though the desert. I managed to get a picture of ... read more

Let us say that this entry is dedicated to the 3646 kilometers (or 2266 miles) we drove in our little caravan over the 10 days we were in Western Australia. Our plan was to rent a caravan, drive north to Exmouth, see whale sharks, then travel to some of the more remote Outback National Parks. I had done my careful calcuations using the best of my knowledge, and thought I had correctly calculated the distance...but somehow measuring the kms against my finger....on a half-inch legend....in the travel guide's undersized map I learned has a fairly (very) large "margin of error". My error was by only 25% -- but when you are talking 2000 plus miles in Western Australia...that is a miscalculation working out to about a day and a half of pure drive time. Western Australia ... read more

Well we survived the Cyclone....well actually it never actually arrived! Just rained cats and dogs for 3 days! So Coral bay being a bit of a wash out so to speak, we decided as soon as the road was reopened to head on up to Exmouth and the Ningaloo reef. We read about Exmouth before we were even in Australia as it is one of the few places in the world where Whale Sharks go past close to the coast and we had heard you could do a trip to swim with them. Whale sharks are the world’s biggest "fish"; they are Sharks not whales and can grow up to 18 meters long! Well being the water baby that I am, and Tel fast becoming one we REALLY wanted to give it a go. When we ... read more

(G) Left Broome for Exmouth via the Karajini National Park. Roads in the Park were really quite shocking and gave us our first puncture on the car. Managed to get the spare on (once we had figured out where the Jack was) and continued the journey both covered in Red Dust and looking like we had been tango'd. Now arrived in Exmouth (35 degrees!) for three days. Road Kill Count - Paul, a whole heap of birds now. Glyn, a lizard and a few birds too. Some Piccies attached (Paul was having a bit of a David Bailey moment on Cable Beach) Miss you loads G&PXXX... read more