Travels Downunder – A Reminiscence: Part 22
Our previous chapter left off with us at Cape Tribulation in Far North Queensland, one of the most beautiful places we had so far visited.… Read the whole story
Our previous chapter left off with us at Cape Tribulation in Far North Queensland, one of the most beautiful places we had so far visited.… Read the whole story
Our travellers have reached the largest city in the world at Mount Isa
After leaving Mt ISA we started to head north towards the Gulf of Carpentaria, with a small diversion en-route to Gregory Downs via the Burke and Wills Roadhouse.… Read the whole story
Our adventurers are moving on from Banka Banka Cattle Station…
Leaving Banka Banka cattle station we continued heading south on the Stuart Highway, past Threeways Roadhouse which stands at the junction of the Barkly Highway, and eventually arrived at the town of Tennant Creek where we stopped for a couple of nights.… Read the whole story
The travellers have been finding out about the original people of Australia in Kakadu National Park.
After leaving Kakadu we headed back to the highway and turned south, back through Katherine again and made it as far as Mataranka where we stopped for the night.… Read the whole story
Our explorers have now been to every state and Territory. What will they find in the Northern Territory?…
It is nearly the end of May and we have been on the road for seven months and are now in the Northern Territory, having travelled about three quarters of the way around this vast country.… Read the whole story
Our travellers had been admiring a Boab tree in the town of Derby…
Leaving Derby we continued our clockwise circumnavigation of this amazing country and, still in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, we headed eastwards passing through Fitzroy Crossing where we stopped overnight, then on past Halls Creek and eventually arriving at Turkey Crossing.… Read the whole story
We left our travellers exploring a coral reef…
We really enjoyed our time exploring the Ningaloo Reef but needed to get back on the road and keep travelling north.… Read the whole story
Our intrepid explorers survived their taste of the bush and have set off for Shark Bay…
Having recovered from our scary bush walk we set off north again heading for Monkey Mia in Shark Bay.… Read the whole story
Having swapped stories round the campfire near The Pinnacles our travellers move on to their next adventure…
Following on from our interesting overnight bushcamp at Cervantes, we set off again heading north, following the coast as much as possible.… Read the whole story
As mentioned in our last chapter we didn’t want to venture too far north until the end of April so we were still exploring Perth and the surrounding area well into April and decided it was one of the nicest areas we’d been to so far, but as we said before, it’s just so far away from the rest of the world.… Read the whole story
After our encounter with the dolphins at Torbay we hit the road again following the coast westward towards the most south western point of Australia, near the town of Augusta.… Read the whole story
After traversing The Great Ocean Road, our travellers have just caught a ferry across Australia's longest river, The Murray
After stopping for a couple of nights in Victor Harbour it was just a short trip up to Adelaide.… Read the whole story
Our explorers have just spent some time in Tasmania, and are on their way back to the mainland
Our return boat trip from Tasmania went without a hitch.… Read the whole story
My wife and I have two children, a girl and a boy. Our daughter, the eldest, lives in France and our son, the youngest, lives in Australia.… Read the whole story