Blogs from Kalbarri, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 12

Well i have just been working for the last few weeks and going to the beach on days off although it has got colder. Taken the week off this week to go on a road trip with a guy i have met in the hostel, Tim. We left today to head up the coast in a hire car. Headed to Kalbarri today. It wasd a long old drive on very boring roads, im loving driving a new car though, power steering and an accelerator that when you put your foot down up a hill it goes faster!! INcerdible i love modern technology! So we got to Kalbarri about 6 checked into hostel and were pretty tired from the drive.... read more

Kalbarri National Park starts a few kilometres out of the town and is a vast area of trees and stuff. Centred on the Murchison River, it also has a quite a spectacular gorge with some great features. We were keen to see it but on Monday morning, we got news that someone had died up at the gorge that very day; heat exhaustion or dehydration I think. Bugger! We also made aware of the temperature - a rather stifling 46.5 degrees c and 38 in the shade! An old boy on the campsite told us that he’d been to the gorge and that it was 51 degrees up there!! We spent most of the day in the pool and in shade! Anders and I agreed we’d go to the gorge at 5 or 6ish in the ... read more

We reden 420km van Denham naar Kalbarri. Dit stadje leeft van de toeristen en van de vangst van rotskreeften. Je rijdt al door het Kalbarri Nationaal Park, nog voordat je Kalbarri zelf bereikt hebt. We stopten bij de Ross Graham Lookout. Deze parking is zeer goed uitgerust met zitbanken in de schaduw, moderne toiletten en informatieborden. Je kunt er een uitgestippelde wandeling maken naar de lookout en naar de rivier. Dit is een eindje wandelen, met klimmen en dalen. Even verder op de grote baan is er een afslag voor de Hawk’s Head Lookout. Eveneens met een goed uitgeruste parking, de wandeling is hier maar zeer kort. In deze omgeving zien we voor het eerst grasbomen: een grote graspol bovenop een oude, traaggroeiende stam. We bezochten het Nationaal Park onder begeleiding: een kano uitstap met “Kalbarri ... read more

We arrived in Exmouth on thursday 28th of september. Like everytime, we went first to the visitor center to find out what to do and where to sleep. We decided to sleep in the Lighthouse caravan park.. Yep i forgot to say that we spend almost one week sleeping in the car or in the tent in the bush with no showers nothing.. So it was quite welcome.. especially when it is quite hot! We just went to see the beach and rested in the caravan park. The next morning, we went to the lighthouse look out with our friend Xavi. And we saw some surfer in the waves.. So we decided to go to the beach to surf. The waves weren't too big but since Noosa Heads I am a bit afraid of the ... read more

Day 62 Coral Bay to Carnarvon 30/08/06 As we had to be at the Shopping Centre by 8.30am for the ‘Quad Bike Tour’, we were awoken at 600am by the alarm clock. We got out of bed straight away to find the tent was wet from extremely heavy dew. We quietly dressed, ate breakfast and began the pack-up. As I wanted the tent as dry as possible before we collapsed it (dried by the sun), we didn’t drop it until 7.55am. After tying the bikes on the front box, we drove across the road and parked in the trailer parking bay. Once at the tour shop, we were fitted out with helmets (we took our own snorkels & masks) and taken to the bikes. The boys had chosen the particular quad bikes they wanted the previous ... read more