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 […]
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” […]
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 […]
We were a little lax plannning where to go for Christmas in 2016. To be honest, we were both a little depressed after the amazing trip to swim with the whales in Tonga 🙁 Yes, I realise how horribly spoiled that sounds. We were looking for somewhere warm, relatively close to home (by Australian standards), […]
Have you ever seen that photo of a kangaroo lounging on a pristine white sand beach? Some quick googling identified the destination to be Esperance, which is also known for leafy sea dragons. Esperance isn’t easy to get to – we think this is why it remains so special. From Perth, it is an 8 […]
There are few places that we visit more than once, so it should come as a shock to most that we spent Christmas in 2015 in the Whitsundays. Yes, that makes the THIRD visit in two years. We absolutely love it there, it is an easy trip from Melbourne, and the boat we chartered in […]
We timed this overnight adventure with the new moon, hoping for a last glimpse of the full Milky Way arch before it sinks below the horizon for summer. From Melbourne, we took the Great Ocean Road, stopping in Kennet River for a coffee at the Kafe Koala. If you want some easy wildlife spotting, this […]