The outback adventures of Smash and Trundle
Smash somehow woke us up from the comfort of our cozy bed at the Rasmussen abode at 5am (yes, 5am!) and we left Ian to sleep in and got on the road super early to tackle our 902km day. Trundle … Read More »
We left the rest stop relatively early and headed straight for Yanchep National Park, which was just down the road, and it was lovely to arrive before the crowds did as it’s relatively close to Perth and quite accessible for … Read More »
Another slow start morning, and we lazily made our way back to Kalbarri to do a quick tour around the inland river gorges before it got too hot. We took the gravelly and heavily graded road with a stream of other … Read More »
We’d unintentionally managed to choose a wonderfully shady spot last night when selecting our campsite so we had a nice sleep in without the sun blaring down on us too early on. We took the road back to Kalbarri to … Read More »
We woke up at sunrise to get an early start for Monkey Mia to see the wild dolphins come in to the bay – packed up in the lovely quiet stillness of the morning and did the quick drive up … Read More »
Team Scrag left the rest area after a leisurely breakfast, and it wasn’t too hot too early which was nice. We finally had some successful wedge tailed eagle spotting on the road out to Carnavon from Minilya! They’re pretty wary … Read More »
We were up nice and early in the caravan park to pack up and wait for the tour to start. The bus was a bit late to take us down to the boat ramp but eventually got on the boat … Read More »
Still no news on the Renault from the workshop so off we went for another day in the hire car at the Ningaloo Reef at Cape Range National Park. We stopped for a couple of emus crossing the road ahead … Read More »
Monday morning and we were all go go go to try organise a replacement hire car whilst the Renault was out of action as Exmouth was wearing a bit thin for us. The mechanic called and said he’d discovered that … Read More »
Unfortunately we’d had a pretty terrible nights sleep due to the terrifying sound of the tide roaring in just below our camp. It had risen from 0.6 metres to 5.8 metres in 6 hours during the night – yikes! And … Read More »