Blogs from Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 6

We are thoroughly enjoying our time in Exmouth. We have had four days here, and both agree that it is somewhere we would happily holiday for a longer period of time. Exmouth, with Cape Range National Park and Ningaloo Reef on one side of the peninsula and Exmouth Gulf on the other, has so much to offer holiday makers. Navy Jetty, which is a working jetty owned by the Department of Defence, is rated as one of the top ten dive sites in the world. We are told that the marine life there is amazing, but it is a restricted site available only to certified dive tours. No snorkelling there for us. There are fishing charters providing a game fishing experience. For the more casual holiday makers like us, the are many sites to fish from ... read more

Who would have thought the gentle pursuit of caravanning and camping could be so dangerous. First of all there is the risk of dying of boredom being the passenger while traveling from point A to point B or C or D etc. If you can survive that, then you must contend will everything Mother Nature throws at you. At Fitzroy Crossing, warnings had been posted about Singapore ants, tiny ants that would get into everything, so they recommended spraying around table and chair legs and even the wheels with ant spray to guard against them. At Turkey Creek/Warnum, we had to contend with bulls marauding through the van park. At Wycliffe’s Well there was a not to friendly donkey roaming around freely. In Karijini National Park, campers were warned about wild dingos, and told not to ... read more

We arrived at Karijini national park. It was really dusty and the campsite was huge. (140 sites!).We set up camp and got our swimmers on to do a little walk down to the nearby falls as we had not had a shower for a few days. But it was getting dark and the water would be freezing, so mum just ran down. The next day we walked in three different gorges. The first one started off easy and then it got harder. It was called Weano gorge. We had to follow markers on the rocks and wade through the water in a few places. The next one was called Hancock gorge. It was really good. You had to climb on ladders, swim through water and then do the spider walk  . But then we couldn’t ... read more

Sodala, hab hier mal ein wenig zeit ins netz zu gehn und werde wie versprochen ein paar Bilder von dem letzten eintrag nachreichen, den jetztigen roadtrip werde ich erst spaeter hochladen, wenn ich dann in Darwin angekommen bin. Vornweg dazu schoneinmal, die westkueste rockt ! So nun will ich euch nicht laenger auf die Folter spannen, anbei die Photos zum letzten Eintrag "Castaway". PS: Hier oben ist der Winter schon wieder angenehm warm, man kann in kurzen sachen rumlaufen und das meer hat ca 24 grad :D.... read more

Tuesday 7th – it was a beautiful morning with not a cloud in the sky but today we were leaving this tiny piece of paradise that is Coral Bay. We were packed up and ready to go by 8.30 and so had time for a last wander along by the beach and up to the lookout. There were already plenty of people about and a few who had also strolled to the lookout. It was very easy to see why retired folk from Perth came up here for the winter – why wouldn’t you? – it’s beautiful. Eventually we managed to tear ourselves away and we were on the road by about 9.30. Besides us having a rest from travelling, PIE had also had a good rest as she hadn’t moved an inch for seven days ... read more