Blogs from Karijini National Park, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 7

Wednesday 19 September 2007 Happy Birthday to Nanny (Matt’s Mum) and Matty Mitchell!!!! ‘Toughen up Princess…………you’re in the Pilbara now’ This is Matt’s favourite saying - doesn’t matter who you are, young, old, boy, girl, woman or man!! We are into our next part of the adventure and I must say we are much better travelers than when we started out from Canberra. The kids are traveling well in the car, our DVD player is broken and Lily hasn’t even asked once to watch a DVD. They seem to be able to amuse themselves quite well with books, the magna doodle (which is a little sad and will need replacing and we will need two of them probably very soon), match box cars, Barbie dolls, Lily talking a lot as usual - Ethan trying to get ... read more

As we left the coast from our big fishing adventure - less fish, we headed south to the some of the national parks and into Mining Country The first stop was a little known national park called Millstream National Park. The park is quiet small in size. The walks were short, but the one around the rangers station was very interesting as it was told in the eyes of a 12 year old boy that use to live there. There was some great scenery. Some of the ranges (as in mountains and not Park Rangers) had really great colours, but the overcast cloud did not do them justice. One of the ranges looked like ice-cream with chocolate topping dripping down, which in fact was brown rock with white plant life on the lower section. But ... read more

Gnaraloosta lahdettyamme ajoimme Coral Bayn kautta Exmouthiin. Matkalla naimme sadoittain termiittikekoja. Niita tuntui olevan joka puolella ja hirmu tiheasti. Osa oli valtavan kokoisia mohkaleita. Ensimmaisen yon Exmouthissa yovyimmeautossa supermarketin parkkipaikalla. Seuraavana aamuna menimme tutustumaan Cape Range Marine Parkiin ja Ningaloo koralliriuttaan. Kavimme parissa eri kohteessa snorklailemssa. Saaolot eivat suosineet meita ja vedessa oli todella huono nakyvyys virtausten takia, mika oli hienoinen pettymys. Toisen yon yovyimme turisti informaation edustalla no camping kyltin alla ja aamulla herasimme siihen kun tuimailmeinen rangeri koputteli auton ikkunaan. Kommimme puoliunessa autosta ja selitin rangerille etta olimme muka tulleet vasta myohaan yolla Exmouthiin joten emme tienneet minne menna yoksi. Han heltyi ja tyytyi antamaan meille vain varoituksen sakkojen sijasta... read more

“Back on the road again”……. and having spent longer in Exmouth than planned we had a lot of miles to cover in less time than we had hoped, but looking at the schedule we still had time for a National park or two before Darwin. We were on the Northern highway and this meant we were in the land of the road-trains again… some of these monsters had three trailers attached and came with their own wind vortex that made it a very good idea to hang onto the wheel tightly and get as far over your side of the road as possible when they passed. Certainly none of them stopped for the wildlife and there was plenty of roadkill, everything from birds-of-prey to full sized and now rather inflated cows, which you could smell long ... read more

After doing some much needed washing, stocking up on groceries etc we gladly left Port Hedland and headed south on a side trip to Point Samson and Karratha. This was 204km from Port Hedland but we decided to do it as a side trip, returning to near Port Hedland for the drive inland to Karajini National Park and Tom Price. It was going to be easier to get to Exmouth via Tom Price, which will cut out this part of the coast. Anyway, off we go to Point Samson which is a fairly modern but sleepy little fishing village with another grotesque iron ore loading facility nearby. The dust from this rust coloured ore turns the water a dull copper green patina and is disappointing after turquoise blue water. We had allowed 3 nights here, but ... read more