Blogs from Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 601

Spring has come early this year to our holiday cottage in Denmark, Western Australia. Here are some shots taken around our garden of blossoming fruit trees and feathered friends.... read more

Well after being in Freo (Fremantle) for 2 months and not seeing anything more than... Freo & Perth, I finally got outta here for a few days! A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend here, Steve(Kiwi) and mentionned he wanted to head down to Margaret River for a weekend. Well it tweaked my interest as I really wanted to see it and I really needed to get out of here for a while. So I went along with him. I finished work early on Friday and we headed out for a chill camping trip. Well, campground camping that is. We initially wanted to just set up tent anywhere near the beaches, but it's very hard to find a place as everything is under reconstruction/conservation land, so we opted for the campgrounds. We arrived ... read more

Ok, ok so you don't get many people in Australia singing along to this ozzy classic but we think it is important to realise that Australia lives up to many of its sterotypes, for example.. 1) It is very sunny, in fact it has only rained here once since we have been here, that's spectacular considering our track record. 2) There are kangaroos..everywhere particulalrly at dusk/dawn, which must be avoided at all costs especially when in a hire car with a scarily high insurance excess 3)...Ok so thats only two sterotypes but it will do for now, instead here is a little update about how things have been progressing down under: Since we spoke last we spent two days in sunny Port Douglas. This was most amusing especially as caught up with our new friends Andrew ... read more

Day 43 Broome 11/08/06 We awoke at around 7.00am and got up around 7.30am. We had a leisurely breakfast and got the domestics done. Christos rocked up at about 9.30am and we had a cuppa or two catching up and discussing the tourist attractions worth visiting in and around Broome. Christos headed off around 11.45am and we drove into Broome to have a look around Chinatown and the numerous pearl shops. Whilst in town we had lunch and bought some groceries that we needed. We arrived back at the Caravan Park at around 3.00pm and walked straight down to Cable Beach for a swim. We returned to the park at around 4.30pm, so we could have an early dinner, before driving to the Town Beach to witness ‘The Stairway to the Moon’ over Roebuck Bay mudflats ... read more

With every intention of spending another night just south of Broome along the Eighty Mile Beach stretch, we left the campsite relatively early hoping to relax for the afternoon in an equally beautiful spot. Along the road, Master Spotter Greeny spied yet another squished snake on the side of the road, so we u'ed back to it and photographed it for later indentification. Further on we spied our first ever tumbleweed whistling along the Roebuck Plain, which was highly exciting but then we became concerned that the mileage trip indicated that our turn off should be in the near vicinity, and it was nowhere to be seen! We pulled onto a few dirt tracks to search for camp although in vain, and finally wound up around 30 kms south of the T-junction at the roadhouse that ... read more