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Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Exmouth April 29th 2016

Coral Bay- Exmouth - Yardie Creek. The road from Coral Bay to Exmouth is hot and dry, small green shrubs and large termite mounds dot the country side. As we got closer to Exmouth we saw glimpses of blue ocean. We drove through dry river beds with 2-4metre measurement posts, obviously in the wet season the area floods. To the West is the Cape Range National Park Exmouth is situated 1270km north of Perth with a population of approximately 2250 permanent residents. Discovered in 1618 by Dutch Captain Willem Janz, the first documented European landing on Ningaloo Reef. In 1818 the English Captain Phillip Parker King surveyed the northern coastline and called the area Exmouth, after his hero Viscount Exmouth, also mentioned in the Horatio Hornblower novels. Exmouth has been a base for the Royal Australian ... read more
Fancy An Emu Muster?
'going the big prawn'
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Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Exmouth June 27th 2015

On Thu 4 Jun we left Denham and set off for Exmouth which was approximately 690 Kms. Not to repeat the same mistake we decided to fill up with fuel At the Overlander Roadhouse and again in Carnarvon. On the way back to the Northwest Highway we stopped off after 100kms to look at Hamelin Stromatolites and a Shell Quarry. Shark Bay is one of only two places in the world where living marine stromatolites exist. These living fossils contain microbes similar to those found in 3.5 billion year old rocks - the earliest record of life on earth!! As such, the stromatolites provide a record of local environmental changes. These ancient structures are examples of what life on Earth was like 3.5 billion years ago and are considered living fossils. Cyanobacteria were some of the ... read more
More Stromatolites !
Feeling exhilarated post Exmouth whale shark swim!
Make the sign for what you saw today!

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Exmouth August 21st 2014

Exmouth is a wee tourist town at the top of the Ningaloo Reef and has some quality marine animals. During the cold war the US army built a military base there and it is the site for 13 massive towers that transmit Very Low Frequency radio waves (VLF) to the submarines. I think it can contact any submarine anywhere in the world. Anyway before the Americans showed up this place was pretty desolate and cut off from the rest of the world. Now it is a tourist hub. Ciaran went for a dive on the first day at the Navy Pier. It is a big pier built by the Americans for the army base, and apparently is consistently in one of the top ten diving sites in the world. Well, it was the best diving site ... read more
TurquioseBay
ExmouthLighthouse

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Exmouth May 29th 2014

With our stay in Shark Bay having come to an end, Linda and I bid a fond farewell to Fowler's Camp and hit the road for the 400km-plus haul to Coral Bay (Thursday 22nd May), first back-tracking 100kms to the Coastal Highway, before proceeding north towards Carnarvon where we stopped for a lazy riverside lunch. After then turning off the Coastal Highway onto the Exmouth-Minilya Road, we couldn't help but marvel at the presence of countless huge termite mounds scattered across the landscape - some of which towered up to two metres high. While I had seen such structures before, they were obviously a new phenomenon for Linda - who found it hard to believe that these giant mounds of earth could have been built by such tiny little creatures! It was right around dusk when ... read more
Sandy Crescent
Gaping Chasm
Rugged Grandeur

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Exmouth April 13th 2014

Friday 11th - popped into a Coral Bay to see what was there - beautiful beach, blue seas and lots of activities from kayaking to clubbing! This is where our 3 German girls were heading. Terrain was constantly changing from desert to green areas with more livestock including 3 horses. The desert areas were a forest of termite mounds (we learnt later that although termites are blind every termite mound entrance faces magnetic north - not many people know this!!! As we approached Exmouth there were some very moving memorials to the Australian Special Operations units from WW2 together with various mementos of the American WW2 involvement in this region. Into our powered site for the night did all the domestics before an early night as today's temperatures had reached 45 degrees and we were due ... read more
Lyn with Melody
Tibo the crew boss
In the water waiting for the Whale Shark

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Exmouth November 1st 2013

The Kimberley region from Kununurra to Broome stretches for miles and miles so Pete and I definitely have shared the driving on this leg as the roads seem to be never ending straight roads. The landscape changes quite often though to keep it interesting and I am also glad that we have tons of music to sing along to, to ensure we are fully awake plus I brought these very strong coffee candy pieces back from Bali and they too are helping to make sure we keep alert on the road. Tonight we are camped in Derby which has the title of having the largest tide in Australia at 11.8 metres. We biked 5km at 3.00 pm with the temperature around 30 degrees at least to the wharf to see the incoming tide but tomorrow I ... read more
Broome - Sunset over Cable Beach
Bush fire on side of road - Port Headland
Coral Bay - Ningaloo Reef

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Exmouth August 11th 2013

The journey continued from Exmouth north east towards Dampier. Along the way we spent 3 nights bush camping at Yannarie and Robe Rivers. As it happened, there was just a little water in the Yannarie River east of our camp, and in the evening we could see cattle coming down to drink. Some others in the camp also swam there. Not sure about the wisdom with so little water and so many bovine calling cards! At all of these camps, there are river gums which are a haven for the smaller birds who need to hide from the whistling kites that are ever circling. Catching the birds with the camera is a different issue as they are very quick and tend to be well hidden in the trees. However, as you will see from the photos, ... read more
Black Eyed Sturt's Pea
Flame Grevillea
Mulla Mulla 1

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Exmouth August 7th 2013

When approaching Exmouth a few days ago, we noticed an unusual break in the cape Range on its eastern side, about 20ks before coming into town. Today the four of us decided to go exploring up the gorge and take some pictures. We dreamed of birds of prey, rock wallabies, lizards and snakes. Not all dreams come true, but the half day exploration was worth the time. The name Shot Hole Gorge is relatively recent, probably late 1950s when there was significant seismic exploration in the area, and the road we travelled was built for that purpose, and the road and gorge name have stuck ever since. I haven't found an earlier name, so Shot Hole will do, and is not inappropriate in this hole ridden rocky gorge. Unlike the Yardie Creek Gorge which has water ... read more
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Face in the rock

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Exmouth » the city July 31st 2013

Today we arrived at Exmouth we are staying in Exmouth Cape Holiday Park. We put up the trailer tent and had dinner and went to bed. The next day we got up and went snorkelling on Ningaloo Reef at Lakeside beach and saw lots and lots of fishes, we saw a tyre, and clams (which I think one had a pearl in). We saw lots of coral. After we went snorkelling we went to the shops and I got an ice cream, after that we went back to the campsite and had dinner. After dinner Sarah and I watched a movie, it was Cars. After that we went to bed, I got the bed time giggles as usual. The next day we got up really early as we were going on a whale shark tour. The ... read more
Lakeside snorkel
Whale Shark spotting
Turquoise Bay

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Exmouth July 17th 2013

Exmouth and the Amethyst Its scrubby flat ground covered in Termite mounds that greet us coming into Exmouth. Next day we do the market and have a look at the town, then go out to the Naval Installation to see the Harold Holt Naval Base. The ULF towers were built during the 60s in a joint venture between the Americans and Australia to listen for submarines. There are 13 towers in all and the highest one is a fraction higher than the Empire State Building. We go up to the Vlaming Head Lighthouse where you can see for miles, and go and look at what remains of the SS Mildura that was carrying a cargo of bullocks that was shipwrecked off the point of North West Cape in 1907. We are on the furthest piece of ... read more
On the road to the diggings
Rough going at times
Shadowed by the mountains on the way to the dig




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