Blogs from Nullagine, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania

Karajini to Eighty Mile Beach – bush camping, driving the Boreline Rd, melting in Marble Bar and getting our first taste of unswimmable waters...

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Nullagine March 30th 2013

Lets go for a swim!

Sadieandoyvind

Since we got a late start leaving Karajini, we decided to spend the night at a nice-sounding free campsite only 50 km down the road. The Albert Tognolini rest area has a nice little 4x4 track going up the side of a mountain, and we just kept driving further and further up along the ridge, over steep rocky climbs. At every turn we thought the track must end, but then it just kept going. Pretty certain we would be alone for the night (or at the very least that we would hear anyone coming our way long before they reached us since the track was so rough), we set up camp overlooking the valley and proceeded to hang out in the nude, just because we could (ok, it was boiling hot as well). We also did ... read more

Wiluna, Nullagine and Marble Bar

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Nullagine October 31st 2009

Rags working with staff at Wiluna

Weggs

We have been contracted by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation to distribute laptops to the communities of Wiluna and Nullagine. OLPC is an international charity originating in the USA founded by Nicholas Negroponte with the objective to supply basic ICT equipment to disadvantaged children throughout the world with the aim of improving literacy. In Australia the disadvantage is isolation, it just happens that these communities are mainly indigenous. Northern Queensland and the Northern Territory were the first to receive the laptops, now WA is being targeted. Rawa was a pilot school and on Monday, 19th Oct Kiwirrkurra on the WA/NT border was used to launch the scheme. We are now continuing this deployment with Wiluna on the 20th and Nullagine on the 26th October. We left Perth on the 18th October towing the caravan, ... read more

A week in Nullagine

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Nullagine June 27th 2009

Rags drove the bus

Weggs

Nullagine 21-27th June After a leisurely drive we arrived in Nullagine about lunch time which gave us plenty of time to set up camp at the Nullagine Tourist Park. Although we’d met the managers previously we found them quite abrupt. When we commented about the small size of the caravan site we were told “ If you don’t like it perhaps Mitchell can find you somewhere else!” Mitchell is the new principal at Nullagine Remote Community School. After lunch we wandered across the road to catch up with Mitchell and found him at the school. He told us Dianne would sort out a timetable for us the next morning at school and left us to check our email. The following morning we arrived at the school to find the teacher of the Year 3-7 on sick ... read more

Nullagine students lined up for tunnel ball

Concentration required for the egg and spoon race

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