Blogs from Tom Price, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Friday 10th June. Today was the start of a long trek which would eventually take us to an area of Australia we have never been to before – Karijini. Our destination on the second day of the trek would be Tom Price – the best part of 700 kilometers away from Exmouth. Graham had contemplated doing it all in one day, as Sarah and Darryl had done in the opposite direction on their tour. But we’re not very good at very early starts – we often wake up to find some neighbours have already gone but we obviously aren’t that well organized. Anyway, we like to have a reasonably leisurely breakfast and to take our time while travelling. Even if we could maintain 100 kilometers per hour (without breaks we average 80) it would involve 7 ... read more

Day 176 - Karijini National Park to Tom Price We slept really well last night, must be all the fresh air! It’s another bright and beautiful morning here in Karijini National Park and with no ceremonies to stand on we’re away from camp just after 7am. There’s just one more gorge, Hamersley, that we’d like to visit but it’s at the opposite end of the park to where we are and seemingly it’s easier to reach it from Tom Price rather than from here. The road is pretty quiet this morning, not much wildlife or other traffic to speak of. Only the warning sign of the 8% climb gets our attention, we haven’t done one of those in a while but we know PIE will handle it easily. Our initial stop in Tom Price is at ... read more

DAY 191 It felt like a hard start to the day, I struggled to get out of bed, but that maybe because we had a late night last night. Andy as always got the kettle on, at 7.30 I managed to surface. For some reason I feel quite out of sync with the routine of packing the trailer up, but we get done in reasonable time, we drive down to Kirsty and Andrew who are almost ready, but we find that they are flushing out the water tank, it seems that in Coral Bay they picked up an infestation of ants, they had not only eaten their way through some cable they have managed to get into the water tank. A cup of tea with ants floating in it is not really funny, I suppose a ... read more

Just another errant blog for fun of Beautiful Ute's 4x4's and interesting Vehicles we have seen on our journey so far. Let's acknowledge the owners for getting out and about in this beautiful Country, in their fantastic Vehicles.... read more

Sunday May 28th and we leave Coral Bay with Bruno, Irene, Liz and David, all from Coffs Harbour, waving farewell. Our next destination is Tom Price and we drive through magnificent country during the day. Scenery changed from semi arid to beautiful green and red dirt and hills and big rocky outcrops. Just what we were waiting to see in the Pilbara. Came across plenty of cattle today including a few rather large bulls. John’s diary says they would each feed an army! The wildflowers are starting to appear and with the blue sky and the red dirt and rocks it was a lovely drive. Had to stop overnight so had our first night free camping at Beasley River. Tom and Val from Singleton were already there and shortly after our arrival Wayne and Jill from ... read more