http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Dongara/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , Australia , Western Australia , Dongara en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:48:11 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:48:11 UTC It was pack up day again We headed back into Geraldton as we had heard that the WA Geraldton Museum was a great place to visit. We found somewhere close to park the van and the entrance cost is a donation. The kids were given a work book to complete and could choose a small gift when they had finished it. They loved the whole idea.The museum was very good and had a great exhibition of HMAS Sydney http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Dongara/blog-341464.html Today we drove up to the towns of Port Dennison and Dongara to have a little look around and to see if we could find a good fishing spot.Dongara was a really pretty little town with a main street lined with bay fig trees. We had a quick look around the museum we arrived about five minutes before it was due to close so they kept it open for a little while longer for us. What was really weird ab http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Dongara/blog-283597.html After a train ride through the most desolate parts of this large islandcontinent it was good to be back in a large city again. We are both admittedly city dwellers but certainly donrsquot mind venturing out into the lesser populated regions.Perth is a city of almost 1.5 million people. If you looked at a map spotted Perth and looked at its latitude you would notice it was at about 32 degree http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Dongara/blog-253966.html I got up at the butt crack of dawn to catch my very late bus at 700 am. In real life this is not a bad time. This is the time I normally left for work for instance. But in the world of the backpacker this is the equivalent of getting up at 300am to complete a term paper due that later morning. I was in a mood to meet people and ended up chatting with most everybody on the bus. It was a good http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Dongara/blog-136360.html