Blogs from Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 15

Nice and early again today for the trek home! It's all pretty much drivintg today but Steve has brought out the trivial pursuits and we had a game of that on the way to pass the time! It's one all england v rest of the world! I have realised i do not know a lot of general knowledge so I have been reading the trivial persuits questions in hope that some of it will sink in! Did you know that Tonga used to be called the friendly islands - ha ha..have I impressed you?? nope...well one of the few questions I could answer was a questiont he other team got! how rude is that, who became a legend after he was the first man in space - yuri gargarin of course in 1961. There you go....thats ... read more

We looked into diving as a few of us wanted to go but weren't allowed as we hadn't dived within a year. we tried another company but no luck getting through so will leave it for Cairns and the Great Barrier reef! Cheaper over that side anyway! Turns out it was a good thing we didn't bother as Mateo was going diving anyway as it was cancelled due to the weather. Sarah and Paul went Deep Sea Fishing so we were expecting fresh fish for dinner! There's wasn't cancelled as they had some crazy Abo's taking them out! So, those remaining went out with Steve to Yardie lake Creek, this was another gorge - bit more water in than the other one, got covered in flies again! That fly net was a great investment! Very pretty ... read more

i just can say that the caribbean beaches are nothing compared to this....really impressive!!!! i never thought that these colors could actually be natural!!! impressive!! my trip up the west coast is being really nice...i'm doing my tour with Western Xposure, and my group is very nice. this part of the country is very very remote and i even have less service on my mobile than in the outback!! less tourists, much more remote...smaller towns...but amazing beaches, really really nice. Istarted my trip from Perth. Perth is a big modern town, with a fanstatic atmosphere...lots of cafes and restaurants, really nice. i met come local guys i spent the afternoon with, very very nice, friendly, showed me around...australian people are extremly nice... The tour itself involves a lot of driving, a very monotonous landscape, but amazing ... read more

Greetings from Exmouth and Ningaloo Reef - What a nice change! Dry and hot. Now anyone who knows me knows that I'm not a fan of dry and hot, but after a month of cold and wet, it's great! Exmouth is a tiny town about 1000km north of Perth. It was originally established as town to support a US Naval communications base. The base is still here and is shared by US and Australia. Like all Western Australia towns, there's nothing to do, but the surrounding scenary is really nice. I've hired a mountain bike and am riding all over - mostly in the early morning and late afternoon to avoid the real heat of mid-day. Those are great times to be out in the "bush" anyway, since that's when the critters come out. I took ... read more

Another long day of driving the now notoriously mind numbingly boring straight roads we finally arived in Exmouth.. after taking in the the now familliar sights of sandy plains and termight mounds. We were quite suprised at how different Exmouth was looking back at Coral Bay as everything was spread out. All the beaches and sights were at least half hour to an hours drive from the town meaning the car came in to play a fair amount, with one of the best beaches Torquiose Bay, about an hour away where the Ningaloo Reef stretches all the way up from Coral Bay. with not a lot to do in Exmouth fishing was back on the agenda even after our continuing failure to actually catch any fish at numerous attempts..!! Overall the fishing started to get to ... read more