Hello all!
We are back from our trip up the west coast of Oz. It was fantastic! We are trying at the moment to upload some pictures of the trip but the computer we are using today does not like us! I think its because we are Pom's!
Anyway our Trip there and back was a total of 3000 km's! I think that is about nearly 2000 miles or so! The little camper we hired did not let us down it was a little trooper! The only problem was it was a bit of a drinker! Oh well we still saw some fantastic sights along the way.
We set our alarm for 4'am........... after snoozing till 6 ish we thought we better get on the road! Now I drove the first bit and Hannah read the map, big mistake I hear all the men shout, but it was not, well until we got to a fantastic bit of Ozzy road works. Our map said the road would be finished early 2005 but low and behold they had not started it! Whoops time for a 60 km detour! Arse!
Anyway we made it to our first destination the Pinnacles. These were thousands of huge limestone pillars rising out of a stark landscape of yellow sand (I borrowed that bit!) It was an amazing place to see! There was nothing around but desert it was sooo calming!
On the road again on to our first nights stop at Geraldton which looked like a lovely City but we were a bit tired (it took a while to find the campsite) So we set up camp in our little van and after dinner we took a walk to the local beach to watch the sunset. It was a lovley beach which no-one uses so it was just us and the mozzy's!
Up early the next morning for the next leg of our trip to Monkey Mia, which has to be the most boring straight roads we have ever seen! You could see the road going over the horizon, far far away! Around you were kangaroo's lying at the side of the road (They are not sleeping, they had a run in with a vehical and lost!) which took Hannah some getting used to but we saw so many.
We made it to Denham which was about 30-40 km's away from monkey mia a good place to stop for lunch and look at the sea of shark bay. It was so calm and lovely very laid back place.
Onwards to Monkey Mia. Took about 40 min's from Denham but we made it, with one stop on the way to take some pictures of Camels roaming free through the bush! Monkey Mia is a campsite and hotel type place with nothing but empty bush and sea around you, you feel very deserted but its a nice feeling! The sea looked like glass here not one wave it was amazing and bloody freezing, suppose thats what you get for swimming in the sea in winter, still 26 c at the moment but just not in the water!!!
Up bright and early the next moring for Hannah's birthday another year near 30!!! We set of to the beach to see the Dolphins. But alas we got there late the little git's had there breaky and were vanishing into the morning sun as we arrived! But about two hours later while we were looking for Dolphin evidence they appeared, YAY! We got front row seats it was brill, they swam right up to Hannah! There is a few pictures of them in our album.
After two day's there we headed off to Coral bay with a two day stay in Canarvon (I will say no more about this place other than... ODD!)
But Coral bay was stunning we went snorkling in the Coral reef, we spent hours in the water and saw hundreds of tropical fish and coral took some pictures on an underwater cam will try to get them put on the photo album next week!
Now the trek home! We drove from coral bay to a little national park in Kalbarri. Again all I can say it was an amazing place very laid back! We did not get to everywhere we wanted to cus you needed a 4x4 and our little camper was getting shaken to death!! We had to do a 10 point turn on an outback road, which in our book is quite an acheivment! After spending a day there relaxing and eating Pizza (Its been 4 months since my last one I was desperate!!!) we headed back to Perth!
We did do alot more on this trip but I would be here for 6 weeks typing it up at my speed and I think I have written enough so help you all sleep better!
Take care and be nice to a new person you meet! He or she might be a new friend or maybe not!!!!!!
bye bye! Jason
