Another pack up, another day in the car and another set up and we are at Cape Keraudren Reserve. Cape Keraudren sits at the southern tip of 80 Mile Beach. Now this is more like it!! We have found the perfect campsite on the beach. No other campers, perfect solitude and a calm bay with a lake inlet for the girls to swim. The girls were straight into exploring the rock pools and were delighted to find that the pools were overflowing with hermit crabs. A nightly exploration to the camp toilets led us to the discovery of millions of hermit crabs everywhere. You needed to use the torch when walking to avoid stepping on them. We soon had a hermit crab farm outside of our van who’s number kept growing and growing. This reserve provides ... read more

Back in Exmouth again! After 7 days in the bush we needed a stopover with ‘Electricity’ and ‘Showers’. After spending more money at the supermarket we caught up on washing our clothes and ourselves and enjoying some time pool side before taking off in the morning and heading back to the bush. Matt’s Eye View After a night in Exmouth for a shop and a shower, we headed away from the surf and beautiful reefs of Ningaloo and what felt like it must have been the pinnacle of our journey around WA. Heading as much east as north now, our next stop was Forty Mile camp. We found a red dust camp ground and an abundance of grey army fishos, staying for “around 6 months”, a quick scan around and I was thinking...why, I guess the ... read more

We were cruising along the highway, 100kms from Coral Bay, girls watching DVD, me trying to rest and Matt following that white line when the tranquillity was destroyed by a severe tyre blow out. The front right hand tyre was destroyed. Needless to say it was changed over without too much bother except for the little girls complaining and wanting to watch the proceedings next to the busy highway.....stressful!! It was an amazing contrast pulling into Coral Bay, such a remote location, yet so busy. Coral Bay consists of 2 large caravan parks, hotel, backpackers, small local shops and many tour booking outlets. There were hundreds of people there. We merged in among other vans feeling quite out of the place after the tranquillity of Red Bluff. The girls were soon to adjust due to the ... read more

Whalebone Beach Our trusty camping guide directed us to several camping grounds just south of Denham. They are located on the southern edge of the Peron Peninsula, and the Shire of Shark Bay only allow 4 vehicles to each camp site per night. We were able to stay at Whalebone Bay and couldn’t believe our eyes when we saw how pristine this spot was. We set up our van just a few metres back from the lapping water in the calm bay. It was beautiful - definitely the location winner so far - although Tahlia thinks it would need to toilets to make it perfect. We set up the van in record time and set up the tinnie for an afternoon on the Bay. We were hoping to catch fish for dinner but only ended up ... read more

We arrived at Kalbarri on Saturday afternoon and were pleasantly surprised to see that it was quite a small town - we were expecting that it would have become a bit more commercialised. We checked into the caravan park and launched into set up mode (we are getting pretty good at it). We then headed straight for ‘Baby Jacques’ the best swimming beach in Kalbarri and enjoyed a great swim and play in the waves (the water temperature is so nice). After out cool down we headed back to camp to meet our fellow holiday makers, Joey, Heidi and the ‘triplets’ and Robbie and Joyce. The girls were very excited about the arrival of the ‘triplets’ and couldn’t wait to see them and have some play mates. Brendan also came up to Kalbarri for a few ... read more