We travelled from Coral Bay to Carnarvon, just a short two and a half hour trip south and arrived before midday. Carnarvon is an interesting town, built on the Gascoyne River which they call the upside-down river. Despite the blue on the Google maps picture below, there’s little water in the river most of the year. All the glimpses of …

Distance Travelled: 68.7kmTime Taken: Under an hour We left Bullara Station after another morning tea of scones with jam and cream, and a quick chat to the owner, Edwina who is helping me with my research for the next series. It took less than an hour to arrive in Coral Bay which holds a special place in my heart. As …

Distance Travelled: 92 kmTime Taken: About an hourNumber of emus deciding to take up the entire road: 1Number of large goannas seen: 1 We arrived at Bullara Station just before lunch yesterday. As we pulled into the reception area, a large goanna – over a metre long – strolled across the ground in front of us, not a concern in …

We’ve spent the past couple of days in the gorges and canyons of the area. First we headed to Charles Knife Canyon where the road goes along the top of the canyon and the views are glorious. It’s a paved road up to the top, and then changes to an unsealed gravel road for the last couple of kilometres. You …

 This is kind of a difficult post for me to write. I was so looking forward to swimming with humpback whales even though I knew it was a hit or miss situation. With whale sharks, they basically swim in a straight line and you can follow along with them. Humpbacks (or humpies as they’re called up here) tend to decide …

Distance Travelled: 549 km Time Taken: About 6 and a half hours The journey from Karratha to Exmouth was pretty uneventful aside from a short stop at Nanutarra Roadhouse. Luke had spent a couple of weeks at the roadhouse about ten years ago because it was the closest accommodation to the random spot of dirt where he was commissioning some equipment. …

Distance Travelled – 871 kmTime Taken: About 10 hours over 2 daysMother Nature being amazing: Twice Day 14 started at sunrise because we wanted to check out the dinosaur footprints out at Gantheaume Point. They’re only visible at low tide (6.50 am) and we’d been advised to arrive at least half an hour before that. We’d been to the point …

Distance Driven: 406 km (return)Distance Flown: 1 hour (return)Bucket List Items Achieved: 2Additional bonus: First seaplane trip  Our overnight trip to the Horizontal Falls in the Kimberley was high up on our bucket list for the whole holiday. We left the caravan in Broome and drove two hours to Derby, arriving about 1pm. The drive was quite interesting as we …

 The Staircase to the Moon is a natural phenomena you can see in Broome on a full moon. It’s basically the moon rise over the low tide beach which makes the reflection look like a staircase. And since we’re here during the full moon we wanted to check it out.  But first we had a day to ourselves. We started off …

 We got off to an early start today hoping to beat the heat. We parked down in Chinatown and then proceeded to wander around the streets, reading the plaques which explained the history of the place, and ducking into shops to see what we could buy. Broome is the heart of the pearling industry in WA and there are many …