Blogs from Lake Grace, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Lake Grace June 4th 2009

Pressure is on a bit now .. I have another special mate flying out to see me in the Whitsunday Islands, only this time the deadline has been moved to the 13th June !! now have to cover 5000kms in just nine days, so there will be some long drives over the next week and a bit. Although it will be great to get to see Jas and Jo again, so the sooner I get there the better .. bring it on !! A bit of a back track this morning ( bloody hate that) but the quickest route to Esperance is via Bunbury. A journey of over 750 kms today took me through the mining areas of Collie, and out on to the vast paddocks of the lower wheat belt of the South West of ... read more

Roadtrip 1, Day 9: Stirling Range to Lake Grace

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Lake Grace April 15th 2008

View from base of Bluff Knoll

drewdle

After breakfast we drove up to and climbed Bluff Knoll, the tallest peak in South West Australia. It was pretty hard going, not helped by the heat, but it was well worth it and I found a nice little spot to sit, eat my tuna sandwich and read. I was actually quite some time (engrossed in the tale of Koitick the white sealin The Jungle Book) and by the time I had finished I was the only person at the top; it was beautifully serene and pretty cool. Once back down (and after my legs had stopped shaking) it was time to head off. I decided that we should try to make up some distance and drive up to a place called Lake Grace. Lake Grace is weird. Most people have probably seen a film where ... read more

INTO THE OUTBACK...

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Lake Grace January 4th 2008

DUMBLEYUNG

BiddyBlue

It was time to take a break from the City for a few days so we headed out to our relatives In lake grace, proving to be my favourite part of this trip for sure....We rented a car as soon as we had arrived in Perth so we drove this on the very, very, very, long journey far far far out of the way..ha ha..but don't worry it was worth it... After a few hours driving we stopped in a peculiar little village, where the drivers of those road trains stop all the time we hear...Some of which we managed to get a good glimpse of during our lil journey..,,,The place was called DUMBLEYUNG, a name i will not forgey any time soon for its hilariouty...i dunno..this place had no GREAT significance during our trip but ... read more

Brief history of Australia

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name...more history

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