This post is part of our Western Australia road trip. In case you don’t want to read this sequentially, or you are looking for another part of the trip, here are some shortcuts: Lake Ballard Exmouth and Coral Bay Shark Bay and Monkey Mia<–You are here Dirk Hartog Island Shark Bay Scenic Flight Kalbarri Hutt […]
This post is part of our Western Australia road trip. In case you don’t want to read this sequentially, or you are looking for another part of the trip, here are some shortcuts: Lake Ballard Exmouth and Coral Bay <– You are here Shark Bay and Monkey Mia Dirk Hartog Island Shark Bay Scenic Flight […]
This post is part of our Western Australia road trip. In case you don’t want to read this sequentially, or you are looking for another part of the trip, here are some shortcuts: Lake Ballard <– You are here Exmouth and Coral Bay Shark Bay and Monkey Mia Dirk Hartog Island Shark Bay Scenic Flight […]
The plan was a two-week holiday in Western Australia, flying into Exmouth, picking up a hire car, and driving south to Perth. This was the farthest we’d been from home in 15 months, and coincidentally, our last trip pre-Covid was to Western Australia. Despite case numbers in Australia being extremely low, we had a nagging feeling […]
Still confined to our mostly Covid-free island, we headed to South Australia for a holiday in April of 2021. We flew into Adelaide and stayed at the Intercontinental (#points). We spent our one free day on a tour of the Barossa with Scott Ninnis. Our request was “off the beaten track red producers” […]
Back in August, we were supposed to visit Lady Elliot Island, but Queensland closed their borders a week before we were supposed to depart. In true groundhog day splendour, it happened again in December. Two weeks before we were due to travel, there was a Covid outbreak in Sydney and the borders slammed shut. For […]
In November of 2020, we travelled to South Australia with three objectives: Relax and drink some good wine See a leafy seadragon Swim with wild dolphins This was our first flight, and our first time leaving New South Wales, in nine months #covid. The lounge was empty and the two hour flight to Adelaide passed […]
Long story short, we were planning to be in Lady Elliot in August. A week before we were due to depart, Covid cases in New South Wales skyrocketed (to 10 new cases per day), and Queensland closed their border. So in true 2020 spirit, we had to scrap everything and plan something new in our […]
Is there a better way to break up two back-to-back weeks of work in Perth than with a weekend of sunshine, saltwater, and some very friendly sea lions ? No. Getting to Jurien Bay Jurien Bay is located on the Indian Ocean, an easy 2.5 hour drive north of Perth. It’s a small fishing […]
When people asked where we were spending the holidays, there was no simple answer. We were headed to Baird Bay, which few people have heard of, and we were driving there from Port Lincoln, which is another place that most people haven’t heard of. My most common response was, “go to Adelaide, then fly an […]