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18 Nov

Day 100 – Cape Le Range

We made it to day 100! Exciting stuff. We calculated that we’ve travelled around 20,000km so far – which is halfway around the world! And 5% of the way to the moon. So that is awesome. So today we packed...
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9 Nov

Day 91 – Monkey Mia and Shark Bay

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...
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6 Nov

Day 88 – Coral Bay Manta Ray Snorkelling Tour

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...
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5 Nov

Day 87 – To Coral Bay

We said goodbye to our little baby Suzuki 4WD in the morning at Exmouth as we returned it to Avis and jumped in the repaired Renault to start the fairly uneventful drive out to Coral Bay – lots of flat...
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4 Nov

Day 86 – Ningaloo Reef Drift Loop snorkel at Turquoise Bay

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...
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3 Nov

Day 85 – Ningaloo Reef Bay Loop snorkel at Turquoise Bay

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...
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30 Oct

Day 81 – Karijini and car issues

We left for Weano Gorge from the campground in the park, which we had been told was a sealed road but turned in to graded dirt after the turnoff – however it was very smooth going for the most part!...
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29 Oct

Day 80 – Port Hedland to Karijini National Park

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...
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28 Oct

Day 79 – Driving to Port Hedland

Our final morning in Broome was spent at Sarah and Peter’s lovely guesthouse cleaning and packing our things in to the car. We had a lovely coffee with Sarah in the main house before heading off and chatted about our...
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19 Oct

Day 70 – One Arm Point at Cape Leveque

I had set my alarm for 5am to get up and go for a walk around the eastern side of the beach to catch the sun rising over the water across the King Sound, which was well worth the early...
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