Blogs from Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 20

The most northern point that we visited was a place called Exmouth, which boasts a sub tropical warm climate all year round, and a coral reef which you can view by snorkelling directly from the beach. The area is incredibly remote at the tip of a peninsula roughly half way up the West coast, and Exmouth itself is surrounded by National Park in every direction, with rivers, gorges and unusual and exciting wildife (pretty much like most places in WA in that respect). We had a bit of a mixed bag of experiences here - some great, and some which left us lacking enthusiasm. Some made us ill. On the way to Exmouth, we stopped in for some food at the last roadhouse on the route - some 200 kms away - and we were shocked ... read more

If you were still worried, then I'm ok - the mosquitoes attack was over and maybe they were not sand flies after all because they didn't itch for too long. So on Wednesday I went on this 4WD safari tour. It was a nice day although a huge waste of money... I thought we would do some hiking but we walked for maybe 15 minutes... crossing the range with the 4WD was awesome, I admit to that. And then we also had a boat cruise in a really lovely gorge called Yardie Creek Gorge. The cakes that came with morning and afternoon tea were really tasty... and that's about it, the rest of the day was boring :-) However, every minute of watching this beautiful cristal clear water in the ocean here is amazing. In the ... read more

I left Perth when it started really raining, and headed into the tropical north of Australia, a land of eternal sunshine! On Friday when we left it rained pretty badly, and it rained most of the time when we were driving to our first destination, but miraculously the rain stopped when we got there. That was the Pinnacles dessert, a very strange phenomenon of stone poles, different heights, sizes and shapes, just stuck there in the middle of the sand. I can't say it's an amazing place but really interesting. We continued driving further north and stopped for the night in a tiny town called Northampton, where we stayed in a backpacker called "the old convent" and it's really a building of an old convent. It felt a bit spooky to go through the angels sculptures ... read more

Warroora Station via Coral Bay to Exmouth Again, we have to get up early this morning as another long stint up north is waiting for us. As Christina’s and my room is right next door to the communal kitchen we wake up as the first people from our group start preparing breakfast. I remember that I made the foolish promise to cook pancakes for everyone. Well, this means playing the chef for 15 people… The first problem I come across: The eggs are frozen. *hmpf* That freezer unit on the truck seems to be operating in either one of two modes: Antarctic cold or Australian heat – we experienced that already on the previous days, having fun with frozen cucumbers and tomatoes. Scott has the great idea of melting the eggs in a water bath however ... read more