western australia | Scrags In The Outback

4 Dec

Day 116 – Nullarbor, Norseman to Bunda Cliffs

First day on the Nullarbor! Feels good! Pretty intensely straight roads right from the start – then we hit the 90 Mile Straight. 146km of dead straight road, the longest straight stretch in Australia. That was straight. Very...
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3 Dec

Day 101-115 – South West Region

Just a post to give a quick sum up of the week and a bit spent in the beautiful Margaret River region and surrounds with our respective lads which was awesome! Trundle and Finn took the Renault and Smash and...
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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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17 Nov

Day 99 – Esperance

First thing was get up and get to the tyre place and cross our fingers that the puncture was repairable and we didn’t have to buy a new tyre to replace the brand new one we had just bought! And...
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16 Nov

Day 98 – Inside Australia at Lake Ballard

From Lake Douglas we headed off back through Kalgoorlie and started on the road out to Menzies to fuel up at their self serve 24 hour fuel stop at the abandoned road house with all the number plates stapled up...
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15 Nov

Day 97 – Kalgoorlie

Oh man so many flies. We had to retreat from the rest stop because there were zillions of them. Thankfully Merredin was just up the road so we pulled in there and made some banana pancakes in the carpark whilst...
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14 Nov

Day 96 – Yanchep National Park and on to Kalgoorlie

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...
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13 Nov

Day 95 – Heading south from Geraldton

Another windy morning when we woke up at the lovely Waminda Wildlife Sanctuary! However it was a good alarm clock to get us up in time to feed the animals with Jennifer again first thing in the morning. Smash got...
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12 Nov

Day 94 – Kalbarri River Gorges to Waminda Wildlife Sanctuary

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...
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11 Nov

Day 93 – Kalbarri Coastal Gorges and Rainbow Jungle

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...
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