clean car, new tyres, just about to leave
windfarm near Horsham
Dead foxes
Sister Rocks
Giant Tacky Koala
Yellow fields of Canola
Bye Bye to Victoria for 2 weeks
the Austral Hotel in Adelaide - no hot water! :(
Snowtown, from the infamous bodies in the barrels in the bankvault
Fancy old railway station at Port Pirie
Flinders Ranges
Pier at Port Augusta
HMAS Whyalla
Sunlight through the clouds
View from my Tent, Port Lincoln, SA
Had the whole bottom of the caravan park to myself
Going to nowhere else!
Seagulls on the road,
Nice place to park
Nice to see some blue skies
Start of the bight
Waves rolling in
Murphys Haystacks
Interesting rock formations
Detail of the rock
Streaky Bay Jetty
Streaky Bay
One of many Sunsets on the road
Long Shadows
Jetty at Ceduna in the morning - Overcast again
Camped on Gravel, next to the car
151515!
Just about to lose phone reception for 1200km's! Called Craig here.. and soon after, Mike Dmonte from Netspace rang!
Usual view of my 'home' for 2 weeks. The cooler was pretty ineffective, kinda what I expected for $29
Yalata Roadhouse, now closed
Camels, Roos, and Wombats, although I saw none alive
Colourful Flowers in bloom all over the desert
Yup.. it is indeed treeless for much of it!
Head of the bight, whales aplenty
nice boardwalk
Thar be whales!
Lots of whales
Fibreglass whales!
Rain on the nullabor
Nice blue water at the bottom of a 100m cliff
Flowers everywhere
Cliffs as far as the eye can see
Complimentary Boots Shot
It isn't complete without a danger sign
another fake fibreglass creation
Where do you want to go to today?
I want to go to Western Australia!
First time in WA!
This cross was visible, on the return trip, at night, illuminated, at least 5 km's away
$20 a night budget room!
The Dunes at Eucla
The old telegraph station, enveloped by the dunes
Old sandstone bricks
Royal Flying Doctor Service - Highway landing strip
Cattle grid
The open plains, and the open road
view from on top of the car! :)
Yes.. it is indeed perfectly straight for 146 km's! felt weird to turn left and right again, at either end of it!
Red sand on a dry lake bed
Norseman, intersection. Go North to Kalgoorlie, Go South to Esperance
passing a freight train in the evening
Sunset over the wheat belt
Orange kitty at the Esperance YHA
Bays, Inlets and Islands at Esperance
Rocky coastline
Colourful little beetle on a Wooden Post
Butcherbird posing for the camera
Esperance YHA - I had the whole place to myself for 2 days! no other guests!
View of the Stirling Ranges, heading towards Albany
a lone dutch windmill
HMS Albany
View overlooking Albany
WW1 memorial
Dogs Head Rock, Albany
Water spray, against the coastal rocks
Natural Bridge
Rugged coastline
Beneath a massive windmill
Windfarm
Just on sunset again
brilliant blue water in a small bay. Would be a very nice camping site in summer
Bit of Offroad 4wd'ing
I've been to Denmark!
Typical small country town
Walk of the Giants - through the treetops
long way down!
Long way up!
Large, burnt out trees - still living
Cycling down to the Lighthouse
Lighthouse at Point Leeuwin
Old lime encrusted water wheel, that was used to build the lighthouse
Dolphins in the river inlet
Had a nice burger here, and had a chat to Craig!
Watched an old man sail his RC Yacht, and had a nice chat
Up the west coast a bit, a nice quiet beach
Had a quick snorkel, and found a large school of fish right by the shore
Kelp!
Beach gear
Nice quiet beach
Artsy seashell shot!
Contrasting blue and white
SW tip of the Continent - Where the two oceans meet!
Yes, I walked out as far as I could
Trying not to get feet wet!
Augusta YHA/Backpackers... very nice place to stay
Main St, in Margaret River
Pevelly Beach, 5k's out from Margaret River
Very consistant waves - good tubes
Vinyards everywhere!
Lighthouse at Cape Naturalist
Diving off Bussleton Jetty
Little Nudibranch
Fish!
LOTS of Fish
Swarming between the pylons
Big Fish
Little Fish!
Stripey Fish!
Blue Fish!
Not Fish!
LONG jetty
Also not a fish, but can still swim well!
Insane amount of fish
Just having a rest
Butterfly Perch?
Swiming away
End of a Dive
Campsite at Bussleton - nice shadecloth to camp on
Pier at Rottnest Island
The Dive Boat
Heading out
Descending
Me!
Perth, view from Kings Park
Avenue lined with White Ghost Gums - very nice!
Lots of construction everywhere
Center of Perth
Lots of Malls
Large Marble Ball that rotated on a bed of water
Drove all the way to the Distributor of my GPS, to buy a car mount bracket! They told me it would have been cheaper to post it, than drive! :)
Campsite at Northam.
Typical country caravan park
Bent railway tracks, from the Meckering Earthquake in 1968
Twisted water pipes
Purple!
Wheat Silos
Typical Driving View
Typical Driver view
Wave Rock
Wavy! - the diagnonal lines are cracks, that have been filled in with ancient lava flows
It's really only 200-300m long, and surrounded by bushland
Dam built on the rock slab, to collect rainwater
Size of the rocks
Hippos Yawn
Colourful Wildflowers
Climbing through the camp, to get to The Humps
View from half way up
What IS that at the top?
aha! a little cairn. I carried the topmost rock from way down below :)
Pointing towards Melbourne - 3000+ Km's away!
Home!
I climbed that!
Heading back along unsealed back roads, to get to the Eastern Hwy
Bluetongue Lizard
Southern Cross Pub
Water Pipelines everywhere
Did a bit of rock climbing to get here :)
155555!
Camp Kalgoorlie. Shadecloth on sand is very comfy!
Bugsplatter
Main St
Quiet for a Wednesday morning, 7:30am
The Super Pit!
Huge Dump Trucks
The scale is hard to take in. It's over 450m deep, and I couldn't see the bottom
Large Scoop!
Visitor centre
Dry Lake Bed
Waiting in roadworks
Back across the straight
6666.6!
Home in the car! Junk in the Back
Overlooking the savanna
I think that was a locust, or grasshopper, or large dragonfly
Artsy rearview
Perfect sunset
Camp Eucla - No fly, cool night air, and a starry view
only 1989 to go!
Brilliant Blue ocean
Parked right up to the edge!
Look over the edge, and what do I see?
Great Australian Bight
Lots of Windmills
I saw this guy on the drive over - near Eucla or Ceduna? He had been walking from Perth!
Camp Port Augusta
Finally home.. JUST tipped 9000 km's, pulling into Hastings! What a Trip!
