Stark Contrasts

Cape Range to Karijini

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May 4th 2011
Cape Range to Karijini The coastal winds have been picking up the past few nights, so we decided to move on to a more central Western Australian location. We started our drive into town at Exmouth early, fuelling up at Caltex – 91.2L @ 182.8c/L. From here, it was a long drive with many cattle roadkill, one every seventy kilometres or so! The road trains don’t even seem to break for ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Karijini National Park

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more