Blogs from Wyndham, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 2

DAY 220 Well again I was up early today, as we were moving on, Caroline and I sat around discussing whether to go to El Questro or not, but I was happy to leave the decision up to Caroline. Though at the moment my focus was finishing off the outstanding blog’s, so we are up to date before we leave oh and have some breakfast. Parry’s Farm Creek is a great campsite, nice and green, the staff are friendly and the facilities are good, oh yea and there is heaps of sunshine and warm weather. Caroline asks if I fancied a bacon sandwich, I didn’t really need to reply to that empty question so in a few minutes she was off to the camp kitchen with the frying pan and all the goodies to make a ... read more

Distance traveled 2558km/4060km(63%).Stayed 1 night(essentially a one night hitching post)and leaving Broome early with a 300km journey ahead meant that,after a good 5 night break,we were back on the road again.Importantly,we left the NW Coastal Highway and now found ourselves on the Great Northern Highway which headed eastwards into the Outback and Kimberley region.It is also called “The Savannah Way” which is very apt as the countryside started to change away from semi tropical and treed to open grassland with far fewer trees to be seen.We both remarked that if one removed the eucalyptus trees,the countryside is very similar to that seen in the northern reaches of Kruger(substitute mopani for eucalyptus).And for good measure we now started to see boab trees with the largest in the region located at Derby.It has a girth of 14 meters ... read more

Tossed and turned in my sleeping bag in the early hours then woke up properly around 4.30am to realise why I was restless - we could hear what sounded like rain but was in fact a huge wind storm directly overhead - really strange. It felt and sounded like it was just about to pour it down with rain, like the storms in Malaysia - but no rain came! I unzipped our tent just as Elizabeth's tent cover whipped off her tent and flew into ours! Maaike came past looking for her clothes which she'd hung out her tent to dry which were now flying all over the campsite - mayhem! I had to keep one foot in the tent to stop it from blowing away while trying to fasten on the waterproof cover. Ian came ... read more