Dinner I was just reading about what Darryl cooked for dinner but had half an eye on the bug photo and it brought an interesting picture to mind!!! Your albino dolphin set me thinking about the white whales we saw in Canada so I've just checked and they were Belugas and not like dolphins at all. Mum K xxx (PS I can hear Graham trying to tempt Tiger into playing with a new toy we bought her but without too much success probably! You can probably guess that it is raining here so we can't get out in the garden!)
This special place It's fantastic that you've re-visited the place where your headline photo was taken and find it just as wonderful. We were lucky to be there when the wild flowers were out - it must have been towards the end of September 2003. xxx Mum K
Finally Well, it took some time, but I am finally caught up on your blog. You do a great blog.
And you are obviously having a great time. Superb!
Check out Findlay's B-B-Q Fish when you are in Kalbarri. It's a pretty unique place. Food is good and wasn't expensive when we were there in Oct 2009.
You beauty Thanks Rita, great to hear from you and lovely to know that you're still travelling with us and sending us happy thoughts along the way.
Sorry you've been poorly, hope the old git looked after you properly! Give them all our love. Take care lovely x x x x
Wise choice Sounds like you have made a wise choice in bypassing some of the 4WD tracks. The cost of some misadventure sure would put a big dent in your plans. Who would have thought that repairs like you mentioned would be $6000???
We know from just a short 10k trip into 80mile beach how bad the corrugations are. And I suspect ours wasn't too, too bad.
Keep up the good blogs. I am slowly catching up
Gary
Thank you Hi Coz, thanks for mine and bens mention we are still with you on your travels! We both had great birthdays, Ben probably more than me as mine is not such a celebration these days least I am still clinging onto the right side of 30 (just).
I heard all about your Dad, and I am sure like Mikes mum he will be fine and up and running v soon after, mikes mum is great now and looks so much better. He is very fit and so I'm sure will soon be on the way to Aus.
Anyway keep on travelling and enjoying yourselves.
Take
Care
Emm
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feeling good. Morning my Lovelies,
I have been saving up your blogs to read when I had a spare chunk of time. Well I caught flu and have just read them all and feel better already. Pics are glorious. Your Dad will be fine Sare, my sis had it done. Back atwork in 3months feeling fitter than a butchers dog. Still a worrying time. You both look so healthy. Its blowing a hooly here so no walk for me. I will look at your pics again and dream.
Take care and safe travels.
Rita xxxxxxxxxx
Is it Mum Emu or Dad Emu? Hi - I thought that in the strange world of Emus, Mum layed the eggs and then cleared off leaving poor old Dad to raise the chicks on his own. I stand to be corrected though! xxx Mum K
Carry on Snorkelling! Well, you two might just grow fishy tails but you might never be back this way again so make the most of it! We did the quad tour and it sounds as though it could have been to the same place - we didn't see any Wobbegong Sharks but it was brilliant anyway. xxx Mum K
WWOOFing Hi - we've had to look up on the internet exactly what WWOOF is all about and now we understand - we hope you get the opportunity to experience this to go along with all the other fantastic things you have done. xxx Mum & Dad K
Stand Back from the Water Dear Wallaby Wanderers, I am seriously concerned about you two!!! Just get out of the water and back on the bitumen, we want to see you in Tasmania and are trying to plan our February for that, at this rate you will still be in Coral Bay!
Glad to see you are still having fun, we are on Sunshine Coast, having a few repairs done on the trailer/tent, nothing serious but after 50,000k's there is a little bit of wear and tear needing attention.
We are catching up with friends while we are here but will head off south soon to get to Wagga Wagga.
Life is good, but I don't now what happened to the sun on the sunshine coast, it was here last time, but now it is gone!!!
Travel Safe guys,
Love to Sydney with a Y from Cairns and the girls, of course to both of you two!
Love KJxx
Remarkable! What a fantastic experience to have and brilliant photos too! The Coral Bay/Exmouth area is just so special and it's pretty much top of our list of places to go back to (but don't tell everyone how wonderful it is there!). Mum K xxx
Waterproof... Not! Thanks for the heads up on the camera casing, I was seriously considering it until you mentioned that, however I am planning on giving Andy my current Canon Eos and getting a newer model for myself, hmm.... I think the Sony will not be up to much underwater, it plays up terribly at the best of times, so something reliable is a must. We have dramas of our own today, we have a collapsed wheel bearing on the camper trailer, we have left it in Cape Hillsborough to pop into McKay to pick up a new hub and bearings! Cannot complain, she has done 50K on some terrible terrain so this is not too huge! Looking forward to having a proper read up and catching up on your blogs...
take care
KJ xx
Flippers for feet! Hi all, we feel like we've exchanged our feet for flippers! I got in the swimming pool yesterday with no flippers on and it felt so wierd!! We've loved every minute of it and we had the best experience ever on Monday when we swam with Manta Rays - 7 of them!! Awesome!
Hope all is well, give our love to everyone - great to hear from you.
Dar and Sar
Wow! Hi Barb, how great to hear from you! We fell in love with Exmouth when we visited two years ago so we've been longing to get here. It's been so awesome and the Emus made us laugh everyday. They're beautiful creatures and to see them wandering around without a care in the world is fabulous. We watched them up at Cape Range too by the drinking tap near Mesa campground, glorious to see.
Great to hear from you and thanks so much for reading.
All the best for the future
Dar and Sarah
Go Tarzy! Hello you beautiful loony you! Great to hear things are going so well, can't believe you've got so into the rugby! Go girl! Send us your address and I will gladly send a postcard from the next amazing spot we arrive at! When I post the blog about swimming with 7 Manta Rays you should show them that, it will blow their minds - it did ours!!!
Speak to you soon and love to the family of course
Dar and Sar
x x x x
Great to hear from you Hi both, thanks so much for the comment on the blog. It's great to hear from you. It's been good to see how well Helen is doing with the girlie rodder accessories, excellent!
It won't be long before we start our journey home but we'll be sure to explore our own 'back yard' when we do, this has really given us some inspiration for the outside world! How we'll ever cook in a house again I'm not sure!!
All the best
Dar and Sar
Don't leave, wait for us! We're going to phone this morning and then we'll head out to Williambury tomorrow morning if it's cool with everyone (in a ok sort of way!).
We're very excited! Hopefully see you tomorrow!!
Nothing to do with your Blog Almost nothing anyway, great stuff Sarah, we're having so much fun with you guys and the under water shots are great. Now business, we're at Williambury and we love it and they have room for you two, check your phone because I left the phone number in a message there and didn't bring it to the computer, anyway, it's really cool here (in a hot kind of way) and you guys would love it, if you can organise some time here we would stay longer to hang with you here. Awesome photo opportunities to Sarah, got a panorama of an approaching storm from the hill behind the house, got caught in a dust storm an everything, it was very adventurous. So guys, get on the phone and get your butts out here, we miss you and it's really good.
Snorkelling Its been great following your adventures, kept meaning to comment!!
Green with with envy re. the snorkelling Greek waters aren't quite like Oz's!!
Still hoping to get to the GBR!
xx R & T
thank you for your blog Hello, I just came across your travelblog and it was so fun to read about that magical place and those beautiful emus...I was stationed at H. E. Holt from 1987-89...I loved the emus, and they loved me because I would feed them frosted flakes at every opportunity.....I remember one time a young emu was hanging around the front of the commissary then walked right in and they had to corral it outta there...He probably wanted to get out of the heat....I 'll never forget the time a coworker informed me that there was a cockatoo that had gotten entwined on the barbed wire security fence that sorrounded our worksite...I put on these huge utility gloves and ran out there with a big pair of wire cutters, hoping I wasn't too late. I could see the bird was close to exhaustion as I worked as fast as I could to free him... I finally got the wire free and he was able to fly away....... That was the best feeling, being able to help such a beautiful animal.
Wooooo Hiya Hi you two,
I am very jealous of the awesome time that you are having. Looks and sounds fab.
I am finally relaxing - the final week day of the holiday, its just passed noon and I'm still in bed......watching Simon Cowell - what could be better.....!
Soon I am going to have to get up and start to prepare for the weekend. I'm off to Bristol this evening catching up with a uni friend for the weekend at the rowing finals. Its going to be tough ....free hotel, food and drinks. Then hopefuly a mad dash back for a league rugby game on sunday in oxford (depending on alcohol and sleep situation). I hardly have time to work - clearly I need to meet a very wealthy gentleman.
right, continue to have fun and a postcard would be ace. I could then inform my children that there are other countries other than enland and 'their' country!! I still have some planning to do for monday but its defo not happening today! lol
speak soon, tj
Hiya! Just a quickie comment to say that we got your postcard last week, thank you very much.
Just read a few recent postings and you're obviously having a whale if a time out there with an amazing amount of scenery and wildlife. Can't believe it's only half way through! On one hand it seems like you've been gone for ever, on the other I don't want to wish away the last half of your year away!
Well, keep having fun and we'll see you in 2010.
Best wishes! Dean and Helen.
Welcome, come in, take a seat and enjoy the view!
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I was just reading about what Darryl cooked for dinner but had half an eye on the bug photo and it brought an interesting picture to mind!!! Your albino dolphin set me thinking about the white whales we saw in Canada so I've just checked and they were Belugas and not like dolphins at all. Mum K xxx (PS I can hear Graham trying to tempt Tiger into playing with a new toy we bought her but without too much success probably! You can probably guess that it is raining here so we can't get out in the garden!)