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Australasia » Australia » Western Australia » Kununurra By elluco May 14th 2007 Beginning of 52km trip well actually 6km into, but my camera was buried in a waterproof barrel. Croc count is about 5 at this point!My canoe partner, is not the large breasted one, but the young guy. Not a problem, less paddling for me! We set off in the canoe, these are canadian style canoes, so it requires an amount of cohesion and cooperation between paddlers to keep the canoe in a straight line. Theres an initial exchange on the best way to keep going forward in a straight line. My buddy is the typical german, 'I know vat I'm doing and follow my orders'. I dont want to end up in the cooler and as it turns out hes right; but theres ... read more

Well, have escaped from the clutches of Katherine, its pissed aboriginal inhabitants, a crappy hostel and the amazing feat of not having a single conversation with anyone in the hostel! Never mind, we are a week down the track 1/52th or something close to it. Ok, since this was the only hostel in town, I had no choice. Get the old lonely planet out, check out the Kununurra section, avoid any hostel that says YHA (youth hostel association) run, read the blab and leave it in the hands of feat! First choice is full up, theres only a YHA and another left. Easy choice. Make the phone call, get to the bus station, get on the bus for a 9 hour trip out of NT to WA. Get met by a friendly, long haired, fat bloke, ... read more

So... not had chance to update for a while have been doing a fair bit of driving and been quite remote places. Since last update with drove from Exmouth to Port Hedland which is really just an industrial type town lots of road trains, trains and miners! It had also recently been hit by a bad cyclone so were lots of trees down and floods. From Port Hedland we were advised to go straight to Broome..about 7 hour drive as there is nothing really in-between. Broome was a really nice place first proper town for a while, had a china town, amazing beech which was stayed near called cable beech (although has a lot of stingers in water... if go swimming advised to have 2 litres of vinegar with you in case) the beach is ... read more

Zondag 29 oktober. Om 4u00 opstaan want het wordt een zware dag met bezoek aan 3 kloven, de ene al wat mooier dan de andere: Adcock Gorge, Galvans Gorge en Barret River Gorge. Telkens wordt er ook gezwommen in sprookjesachtige waterpoelen. We zijn blijkbaar de enige toeristen in het gebied en buiten enkele koeien, vogels en wallabies komen we geen levende ziel tegen. Jay heeft zich de voorbije dagen ontpopt tot een ware chef-kok: ’s middags is er steeds een bijzonder gevarieerde koude maaltijd en ‘s avonds tovert hij met beperkte middelen telkens lekkere warme maaltijden te voorschijn. Voor de voorbereidingen zoals groenten schoon en fijn maken aanvaardt hij hulp maar het echte kookwerk laat hij aan niemand anders over Maandag 30 oktober. We zijn weer vroeg uit de veren en ontdekken vandaag de Zebedee Springs. ... read more

At lunchtime on Thursday, after giving the 4WD a bit of a run to check whether the radiator bog had sealed the hole, we sadly left our friends Bernie and Anne behind in Kununurra. They were heading east and we were heading west, and so we drove 254km to stay at Spring Creek free roadside camp. And what a stinking hot day to choose to travel. As I think I’ve mentioned before, we don’t use the air-conditioning when we are towing the caravan as it consumes diesel at the rate that Wes does his beer, so we had to travel with the windows down, and the thermometer in the front consul measured 40 degrees. But we were in luck. When we finally arrived at the free camp, we found that it was on the edge of ... read more