Author Archives: fiona

Made Carnarvon last night by 6 pm, only 5 min behind Ally & Jeff, as it turned out (despite them having passed us on the road). We did note that they seemed to have left the back and side doors … Continue reading →

Finally departed Cape Range and Exmouth Sunday morning (around 11 am and quite hot and bothered by then) and set off for Coral Bay. Ally & Jeff planned to stay one more day but move to Exmouth for the night … Continue reading →

Too lazy (and no connection to upload) to blog regularly so have lumped all of the Cape Range experience into one entry! Enjoyed 6 nights in Cape Range NP. Very laid back time with lots of snorkelling (Turquoise Bay drift … Continue reading →

Days continue to heat up early. Plans for today included a drive up to the Lighthouse lookout (for the view but mainly for mobile coverage) and then on into Cape Range NP to check out the camping, snorkelling and windsurfing … Continue reading →

Probably not much to say about today. Long 550 km journey to Exmouth. More red earth, spinifex, road works, big skies…. and not much else. Will probably spend the rest of the weekend in one of the caravan parks in … Continue reading →

Arrived Karratha unseemly hour of 7.30 am to drop off the car then walked the long way round to the local shopping mall, mostly still closed. Breakfast at Jamaica Blue (yes civilization all the way up here) then shopping for … Continue reading →

Slow start to the day (so what’s new!),  but eventually mosied our way to the Dampier information centre where discovered the history of Red Dog, a cattle cross who travelled around the region at will and who had quite fixed … Continue reading →

Set off for Dampier and Karratha, stopping on the way for a photo of the myriad termite mounds littering the landscape all around Onslow. Quite different to those further inland, as the termites out here seem to have a penchant … Continue reading →

No moving anywhere today. Time for a slow day by the beach (ocean site right on the beach). Rear awning set up with much cursing by himself as tent pegs buckled in the hard ground. Day to catch up on … Continue reading →

Left the next morning around 9 am after seeing Bertha the bus head off with another tour group. Long day of driving through red earth, low rocky hills, spinifex and stunted shrubs out towards the coast. Stopped for fuel at … Continue reading →