Blogs from Karijini, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania

Hallo again!!! O.K. Still a lot to tell from down under!! Before we left Exmouth to Karijini we drove along the coastal area of Exmouth and finally we found our first Kangaroos alive and a lot. Cute but still with a dump face and especially behaviour around sunset they hopped arround. Very often they jumped out of the bush so driving was quite dangerous with these suicadal animals. The beaches around Exmouth with Tuorquoise bay are stunning, extremly stunning, and quite remote and isolated. The sunsets are full of all the coulors of the rainbow. Then we went inland heading towards Tom Price next to Karijini National Park. On our way there we had our first flat tire, on a saturday nearly dark. With a little help from the road assistance we called, we could manage ... read more

We had a bit of a lie in until 7.30am this morning and then had a hearty breakfast of bacon and eggs cooked on the barbie. Today was our first day exploring the gorges in the Karijini region. We stared with a stop at the Visitors Centre to learn a bit more about the nature in the area as well as how the Aboriginals used the land and how this has changed over time. We also got to meet some of the local wildlife outside the visitors centre as there were a few large spider webs and spiders along the pathway to the visitors centre. It was then time to start the descent into the gorges. We walked down a steep track which brought us down to the floor of the gorge and then walked along ... read more

Hello again! Inland from Exmouth in the Hamersley Range in the heart of the Pilbara is the beautiful 60 thousand hectare Karijini National Park. And if you were to wander through Dales campground right about now now, you would find me sitting in the shade of a Windsor Rapid caravan under a cloudless blue sky. You'd see that the sun is shining and that the thermometer is reading a glorious 32 degrees. You'd see that I am gazing upon spinafex grass and low trees with a deep red soil beneath my feet. You'd see butterflies dancing past and would hear nothing but the rustle of the breeze through the leaves and the tweet of little birds as they fly past. And would you see a contented, relaxed smile upon my face? Sure would!! Everything now is ... read more

Sunday 12th - the night had been bitterly cold and not what we had become used to. Tom Price is very high up in the hills so a cooler temperature was expected, but not this cold and when the alarm went off at 6.15 it was a bit of an effort to get out from under our nice warm quilt. But we got ready in good time and were waiting at the caravan park reception to be picked up at 7:30. By then another eight people from the park had joined us and we were to pick up one more person “on the way” so our tour party was eleven. Our tour guide, Chris – a pom from Warwickshire – was a very jolly, humorous chap who proved to be an excellent guide. The tour was ... read more

No one could escape its disarming powers, looking around I found that I was the only one to still fall prey. But already I knew it was too late. I had already lost....... I was getting sleepy! Isn't it amazing how the heat of a little sunlight through a window combined with that soft rocking motion of a bus can combine to send even the strongest willed into gentle slumber. And a half hour into part two of my journey south to Perth all twenty of my fellow travellers had gone quiet. I was beginning to fail too! This was another journey with Western Xposure and once again the distances involved would call for a number of days where we saw little that was not through the window of a bus. One thing that had changed ... read more