Blogs from Oceania - page 11

Oh dear, today’s blog is not very interesting, because the day has not been interesting…. I guess that, like me, you have to take the good with the bad! This morning I was woken up by noises at the side of my cabin tent! It was way too early because today is sleep in day! I went out to be met by three kangaroos. As I peeked around my cabin tent corner, and obviously, I interrupted their play, they all looked up at me, as if they were in trouble! Then they hopped away! This done, I was now fully awake! Although, I did get back into bed to finish the film that I fell asleep watching last night! It was rubbish, maybe that’s why I fell asleep last night! I got showered and dressed to ... read more

Wednesday 20th March, Bakers Hill, Milligans IslandMilligans Island Eco CampCost $20 per nightRated by us 6/10Mileage 14944 travelled 315KmsWednesday 20 th MarchWe seem to have established a trip tradition of leaving Bakers Hill and having coffee in Toodyay and only then are we truly on our trip. With a few things still to do at home we had a slow but busy start to the day, finally hitting the road at about 10.30am not bad going but this trip is all about slowing down so we made a good start today. We are heading about 300kms north just past Jurien Bay to Green Head, then 2.5 km of dirt road to Milligans Island Eco Camp. The area we passed through is mostly farming land with wheat the major crop. With the harvest in, ... read more

We had the vehicles re-packed and ready to go by about 8.10am this morning. We drove back out to the caravan park to hand our keys in, parked the vehicles and then took the short Wave Rock Walk to view the iconic rock feature that certainly does look like a wave about to break. Damn, we should have aimed for even earlier because there were other tourists there even just after 8.00am in the morning. At least we were ahead of the coach tours visiting from Perth! With a bit of patience and some judicious cropping – and no doubt some photoshopping later on? – we managed to take some good photos of Wave Rock. We had to laugh at the Chinese girls taking posed photos. Lots of different poses! The photographer was instructing her subject ... read more

The house at Cormorant Court has been another lovely holiday house to call home for a few days on our journey … even if the mattresses were a little firm. The only slightly strange thing about this stay was the pricing structure. There was a price for the house and access to all its amenities but add $65.00 if you want sheets on the beds and towels in the bathrooms. Finally, after transporting sheets and towels across the country we put them on our beds on Friday to save ourselves the $65.00 linen surcharge!! So, we re-packed the truck this morning and then draped our wet towels over the top of our luggage. Hopefully they will be dry enough at the end of today’s travels to be able to refold and stash then away for the ... read more

This morning, we drove back up to Busselton to visit the iconic Busselton Jetty. Stretching 1.841 kilometres into Geographe Bay it is the longest timber piled jetty in the Southern Hemisphere. Built in 1865 and extended several times the jetty played an important role in the early years of European settlement allowing ships to make port in Busselton to transport the grain, livestock and timber grown, raised and felled in the surrounding districts. Geographe Bay also became recognized as a bountiful source of whales and American whalers called regularly at the port. The jetty was used commercially for more than a century and serviced 5,000 vessels over that time. When the port officially closed in 1973 all shipping ceased, and government maintenance was withdrawn. In 1978 Cyclone Alby wreaked havoc on the jetty and it was ... read more