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. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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