The 140km drive from Coral Bay to Exmouth, a town at the tip of that little finger jutting out at the top of the WA coast, led us into proper termite hill country. Termite hills crop up as soon as you cross into the Tropics at the Tropic of Capricorn and today we drove past […]
Month: June 2017
Hobbies and Happy Places
Kalbarri is another small town that I feel I know quite well now, having spent the best part of 10 days there. Kalbarri National Park is famous for its unusual rock formations, deep gorges, the winding Murchison River and Nature’s Window, an opening rubbed into the rugged limestone by erosion, creating a lovely vista. Roddy […]
Pass the Smelling Salts!
A rainy day in Kalbarri. Roddy is fiddling with electrical stuff. He finds that some electrical equipment, like the fridge, is interfering with his HF radio reception so he is now busy building insulators, soldering away merrily. We are spending much more time in Kalbarri than my itchy feet allow as we are waiting for […]
Gold rush, dust, teaching and a medical emergency
After two weeks in the interior we have now been in Kalbarri for a few days and will stay for the week. Kalbarri is a small town situated within a national park north of Geraldton. It’s a typical holiday destination and thus very well equipped without being in any way Benidormed. No high rises here […]