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Day 17 – 19 – Rock-eting along the road.
View Larger Map View Larger Map View Larger Map The last three days have seen us cover over 2000km on our journey towards home. That’s the problem when you travel so far, you have to travel back. Day 18 was the longest by far at over 1000km. Day 17, we did a two and a…
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Day 16 – a lazy Kalgoorlie Sunday
View Larger Map Today really was a lazy day. We left the motel around midday and went down to Boulder to look at the monthly market day. Doing some research last night, we found out that many of the museums in Boulder are currently closed due to earthquake damage. Evidently there was an earthquake on…
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Day 15 – Gold country
View Larger Map Today’s journey was a relatively short trip to Kalgoorlie, however in our usual style, we found plenty of detours to make the journey take a little longer. We headed via another huge rock formation called The Humps and up the 170km road to Marvel Loch. This is basically a small mining town…
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Day 14 – out to the wave
View Larger Map Day 14 took us down to the Perth coast. There was a sculpture thing on at Cottesloe beach all of March but we didn’t see more than what on the foreshore. The coffee in Cottesloe was horrible, as expected, and I’m now convinced the best coffee in Australian is in Melbourne (and…
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Kings Park Perth
In my ranting about the motel, I forgot to mention Kings Park. I’ve been there before but hadn’t walked around much of it. We spent a good few hours walking around and talking some shots of of the city from there. A Perth timelapse sunset from Kings Park
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Day 12 – 13 – Perth
View Larger Map View Larger Map Day 12 and 13 were spent getting to Perth and around Perth. The trip up saw us zigzagin inland and back to the coast. We went into Donnybrook, the apple capital of WA where they have streetlights in the shape of apples. There was supposed to be a…
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Day 11 – up and down the Margaret River region
View Larger Map We started the morning with a jaunt down to the Cape Leeuwin lighthouse to climb its 186 steps to the top. This is the most south-westerly point of mainland Australia and is where the Southern Ocean meets meets the Indian Ocean. A few interesting notes about this lighthouse: – It’s Australia’s tallest…
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Day 10 – Tree climbing and Denmark
View Larger Map Today was a reasonably leisurely day. We left Albany via the scenic road, stopping by the coast a few times before arriving at the Denmark Chocolate Company. A man on a horse heading to the beach near Torbay Inlet. Next stop was the Elephant Rocks Brewery and Toffee factory and onto the…
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Day 8 / 9 – Stirling’s Bluff
View Larger Map Todays primary mission was to climb Bluff Knoll in the Stirling Ranges National Park. After paying the entry fee, we drove up to the base of the climb only to see the top of Bluff Knoll in cloud. We decided to move on to Albany and return the following day for the…