Up the coast to Ningaloo Station, Emu Creek, and Karajini National Park – 4x4 driving, outback living and a refreshing oasis of breathtaking gorges and cool pools and waterfalls...

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March 27th 2013

Published: April 1st 2013

Upon leaving Coral Bay, we heard (contrary to what we had been told that same morning) that the army was indeed doing defense testing on their reserve, which meant that the coastal 4x4 road up from Coral Bay to Exmouth was closed, and that in order to be on the nicest, most secluded beaches, we still had to drive all around the cape like everyone else. Itching to get inland, and having gotten what... Read Full Entry

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Sadie & Øyvind

Sadieandoyvind

We are Sadie and Øyvind, she is 28 and Spanish-American (raised in Barcelona, American by passport) and he is 35 and Norwegian all the way. We are married and live in Oslo (moved here together in 2008) and we both work in film and TV, Øyvind is a photografer and Sadie is a director working as a koordinator/AD :) We are quitting our jobs, packing up and leaving for the trip of a lifetime together! Our plans are to be gone anywhere between 6 and 10 months, and we hope to get off the beaten track and maybe work/volunteer along the way in order to better get to know the countries we visit and t... full info

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Evening at the pond

At Emu Creek we got a spot under the trees overlooking their pond. It was hot and sticky, but the view was beautiful

Our campingspot for the night

Idyllic spot to stay for the night at Emu Creek

WA landscape

WA land formations

WA landscape 2

With s chance of rain

some clouds do seem to carry a bit of wet

Shining through the rainy clouds

Handrail pool

As the name says, there is a handrail to get down to this pool

Love rock

We have been seeing some heart formations on our way, here is one in stone

Itchy lizzard

This guy was struggling to get out of his old skin, and because of that he was literally dragging his body around the rocks

At the bottom of the gorge

Looking up

The different layers of the gorges are filled with vegetation in every place there is room for it

Explorer Sadie

Bat tan

The trees were full of bats, seemingly getting a tan while waiting for the night to fall

Spalsh around

Gorge rock formations

Our saviour

at least one of the great features with Bernie, our car, is the back door that splits. This gives us more space, a posibility to hang our mosquito net in the back, and therefore giving us more air in the car

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