The Nullarbor, the word has to be said in that deep male cinema voice. The Nullarbor is a plain, stretching 1200km from Norseman in WA to Ceduna in SA. It is 200km deep from South to North where it becomes the Great Victoria Desert. The Nullarbor creates a natural divide between Western and South Australia. […]
Southwest WA – Beauty on a Grand Scale
Southwest WA – Beauty on a Grand Scale Since leaving Perth we have been on the move a lot. We have seen and done so much, that blog writing has not been my priority, but I do want to keep an account of our journey for myself if nothing else, so here goes. The southwest […]
Brazil was a Blast! Rio was Riveting! The Wedding was Way out of this World!
Twelve and a half years ago I glimpsed a short article in the Ayrshire Post, not a rag I used to read regularly but, as fate determined, I did that week. In this article the sympathetic writer was appealing for a local family to become host family for a Boy from Brazil who wanted to […]
Karrinyup Waters Resort, Perth, August and September 2017
Nine whole weeks! That’s how long we have been stationary at Karrinyup Waters resort, a campsite in Perth. We have seen ducklings grow into big ducks and have been camped not too far from our home in Moondine Drive, which is rented out. This has been a great campsite. It is very well maintained, has […]
The Alarm is off – it’s all relative!
Back in rainy winter Perth, we are installed at Karrinyup Waters in Gwelup, a very pleasant campsite. Up until yesterday around midday, I was an emotional wreck, “built close to the water” as my mother would have said – a German expression, plus a sick feeling in the stomach and trouble sleeping. But then we […]
Will we ever make it past Port Hedland?
After a week’s journey up the inland road we reached the town of Port Hedland two days ago. Anything north and east of here is new to both of us as even Roddy, who has travelled extensively in Australia, has never been to Broom or the Northern Territory. Seven years ago Roddy lived in Port […]
Scotland – I love you!
I’m so glad I decided to fly over for Paul’s graduation even if it meant interrupting our roadtrip and leaving Roddy all alone in the van! Paul, my ‘favourite son’ as I like to call him, and I had some treasured one-on-one time together the day before the graduation, as well as time spent with […]
From Exmouth to Nanutarra and on to Karratha
Driving from Exmouth to Nanutarra, we noticed continuous signs pointing out that we were driving over a flood plain. There were very few hills and a flood plain covering an area of at least 100 square kilometres illustrates how the summer monsoon overwhelms the capacity of the ground to swallow up the deluge. A few […]
Termites, Wrecks and Whales at the tip of the West
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 […]
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 […]
Inside My Mind 