Year: 2016

Travelling in Western Australia brought a number of issues into sharp focus for me. This is a vast, vast continent and so much of it is empty. We travel on the edge of the continent which even though remote, is near enough to some pockets of population and activity. Once you are away from this…

You would have thought there is a clue in the name… We arrive at Sharks Bay at our resort – well sort of – Western Australian holidays = motorhomes. Jeremy Clarkson and my husband’s nemesis but our little room over looking the bay was nice enough.The beach is beautiful, the sea is like a mirror.…

Travelling up the Western Coast we chose the Indian Ocean Drive which takes us past lovely coastlines and small towns – Today’s blog is a mixed bag of that coastline trip. A pet dingo at the Market in Jurien. Nice set of teeth, good with the family’s kids but no one else! We took a…

Just out of Cervantes, some 200 kms north of Perth, we visit Lake Thetis a small inland salt water lake – there is a lovely board walk that we can wander along for about 1.5 kms and it is a bright morning with no one around. We have come to see the stromatolites here by…

This might be the place to visit – a moonlike area with the most unbelievable monoliths, meniers according to the best Asterix and Obelix tradition, and colours to set your mind ablaze.  Wondering what I am talking about ? Let me introduce you to the Pinnacles – a Western Australian phenomenon, some 200 kms north…

There are days when we are quietly carrying on, whether that means, paying the bills, writing,  shopping, cooking or sweeping the garden of the leaves and flowers that have fallen to the ground. There is nothing more therapeutic in the physicality of this almost daily activity which for moments in the day sweeps away all…

Except this one wasn’t climbing up the spout so much as strolling on my floors. Now he was not as incy wincy as my brain would like him to be and when I saw him I stopped in my tracks. I went and got a pyrex dish and placed it strategically on top. Then I…

It is the sticking glue and one of the reasons for the continued existence of this little coral cay. The guano is rich in nitrogen so was originally mined as a fertiliser but it also mixes with the coral to form a beachrock which is as tough as concrete.   Here is a good example of…

Ever wondered what a coral cay looks like in the middle of the ocean ? From the air it looks a little like this and this is where we headed to, last week,  in a small plane.  What you see is the airstrip where the planes land and the coral reef surrounding the cay. A…

Our time in Tangalooma brings back happy memories of a holiday with our eldest son, George, so this posting is for you to share some of the moments and say how much we missed not having you with us this time. Moreton Island is a ferry ride off the coast of Brisbane and it is…