Wide open spaces

After an easy drive down the coast, we arrived at Coral Bay mid afternoon and while we set up the kids headed off on their bikes for an explore. After meeting our neighbours who were a lovely family from Albany up here for their 2 week holiday, we headed off to track down the kids,… Continue reading Coral Bay, WA – a turquoise seaside paradise

We headed off early from Karijini as we had booked a morning tour of the Rio Tinto mine in a town called Tom Price, a bit over an hours drive away. We made it in time and got our helmets and safety glasses before hopping on the bus. It was an amazing experience, with everything… Continue reading Exmouth, WA – a whale of a time

Having been enjoying the coast over the last few weeks, we were not convinced that we wanted to head back inland to the dust, with long walks to gorges. When we were on the Gibb, people told us we would get ‘gorged out’ after a while and now we were beginning to understand that. In… Continue reading Karijini National Park, WA – big gorges and beautiful wildflowers

After an easy drive along the blacktop we arrived at the caravan park and got a great site which was grassy and flat. The caravan park was right next to the beach so after setting up we wandered down to check it out. It was a vast expanse of white sand covered mainly in sun… Continue reading Eighty Mile Beach, WA – 80 miles of freedom

Before setting off from Sydney, we had heard that Mrs Roberton, one of the teachers from the kids’ school, had taken a break from Gordon West to work in a remote aboriginal community near Broome, and we keen to try and visit her when we were up that way. Now that we were in that… Continue reading Bidyadanga, WA – an amazing 24 hours

After escaping from the gale forced winds of Cape Leveque we headed back down the undulating, corrugated dirt road and were more than a little relieved when we pulled into the caravan park in Broome as it meant no more big stretches of dirt roads for a while. We enjoyed a couple of lazy days… Continue reading Broome, WA – a visit from Nanny

We drove up the Dampier Penisular not sure exactly where we would stay but knowing we had four nights until we were due at the northernmost point at Cape Leveque, where we had booked a beach shack for the first two nights of August. 100km of the road was one of the roughest and most… Continue reading Dampier Peninsula, WA – lazy days by the beach

The final leg of the Gibb would take us via what were to be some of the most beautiful gorges we had seen so far. They all involved walks into them and the kids were starting to tire a bit of the walking, so we decided to fast track this section of the trip a… Continue reading Gibb River Road, WA – Part 3: the final leg

Until a couple of weeks ago, we still hadn’t decided if a visit to Mitchell Falls would happen. The road to the falls was supposed to be in terrible condition, and it would mean a 500km detour off the Gibb. In the end we decided that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and would also add… Continue reading Gibb River Road, WA – Part 2: Mitchell Falls