Featured Image: Lighthouse Bommie – First West Coast Surf Did some free camping on the way south to Ningaloo via Exmouth. Some spots are busier than others. This one had…
Featured Image: Saltwater (near Old Bar) Port Hedland to Perth, Perth to Melbourne, Melbourne to Newcastle Jayne went to her board meetings as did I. One highlight was standing…
It’s hard to make some places look good… Coming from someone who loves the beach. More beach. More & more beach. The surf looked a bit dead at cemetery beach.…
Literally stuck up to our knees in mud at one point walking on the beach at low tide. It’s a long way out the back to go for a swim.…
Featured Image: Panorama Cable Beach. School Holidays & all the Broome caravan parks are absolutely packed. So what’s the chance of getting a spot in a caravan park? None &…
Back in the day… More info here Nowadays… Derby Prison Spotted this one the flight over to the Horizontal Falls. Reminds me of a certain boarding school.
Another seaplane trip and off we go to see the Horizontal Falls. You get a real good view of the mudflats of Derby on the way out & back Fly…
Featured Image: Me peering at the pier in Derby From the Australian East Coast to the West coast (Mackay, QLD to Derby, WA, via Darwin, NT) is about 4,500 kms.…
Featured Image: Roadside rest stop with big pile of rocks on the way to Warmun. We stopped at Warmun for a helicopter ride over the Bungle Bungles (means lots of…
Woooo Hoooo! We’re in WA! We knew it would happen eventually but it’s taken a while. You get some interesting vehicles on the road outback. These Russian URAL bikes were…
After our salubrious stay in Darwin we’re now back in the rough & tough at Batchelor, Rum Jungle. Rum Jungle has had a checkered uranium mining past & still appears to…
Featured Image: Sunset at Mindil Beach. While in Darwin, a friend from way back in Digital Equipment Corp (DEC)/Compaq/HP days, Simon (another Simon, we’ll call him SimonW) & his lovely…
We found a bloke with a little blue egg beater near Katherine, NT. He said he could take us to see some indigenous rock art out beyond the 13 gorges…