We are greeted by the Litchfield National Park locals
High-rise living
Urban sprawl
Refreshment after a hard day's sightseeing
Even Aussie insects like to barbecue
Our first bush sunset
Cooking up a veggie storm
Huge, stupendously huge waterfalls...
...that you can swim in!
Big open spaces
A natural part of life's cycle in these climes
We didn't see any - thank goodness!
Crazy albino frog that showered with me
The first of many dirt roads
Could be Africa
Winged visitor
Our first kanga encounter
Aaaaah!!!
Now that's what I call a sandbank!
Aboriginal art at Katherine Gorge
Stunning geography at Katherine Gorge
One of the gorges
Flying foxes in downtown Katherine
They make a hell of a racket
Dinosaurs!
From a distance - and with heat exhaustion - this looks like a statue of a man and a woman - honest!
The Northern Territory is big
The traffic is sparse but chunky
Yee har!
A 100-year-old police station
Boab country
Rainnie reverts - for just a second - to eating meat
I show my godlike side
Pointy hills
Phoenix
That must have hurt!
Sunset over Kununurra
Boabs don't mind fire at their feet
Well, it was still dry season
Making the roads even straighter
A wild stallion
A man-made willy (that's what they call sandstorms in these parts)
More vastness
Rainnie is looking pleased with herself
Our trusty van waits while we hunt for quartz
On the road again
Bizarre countryside
A nosey one
Eucalyptus comes in all shapes and sizes
Our last land-bound sunset
Ah! Cable Beach at Broome!
Rainnie enjoys our 6am swim
We are not alone on the beach after all...
Our first seaside sunset
Look at all that crab crap!
This pile looks like Australia
Holiday snap
Going down
Mangroves at Town Beach in Broome
Proper off-road driving - yikes!
Monster rocks at Gantheaume Point
More monster rocks
Look at the size of them!
Spot Rainnie
Fabulous
Like the world snapped in two
Psychedelic carpet design
And they're off!
Watch out, especially at dusk
Back on Cable Beach
Classic sunset photo
Waves in the dying sun
A nighttime patrol
Gotta love those straight roads
Off the beaten track
Where dirt meets beach
Eighty mile beach is populated by these
Mind-bogglingly flat
Where does the sea begin?
Beach, or sea floor?
Bizarre
Delicious
Check out the tide marks on our tyres!
Pretty Pool, in Port Hedland
Industrytastic
So big!
Rainnie gets friendly with the ranger who moved us on that morning
Giant toys
Look at the scoops on that!
A road train carrying a train!
Bush entertainment
Rainnie loves birds
Classy toilet signs: part 1
Classy toilet signs: part 2
Classy toilet signs: part 3
Heat haze
We snorkelled here at Honeymoon Cove, near Point Samson
Pointy! Ouch my feet!
Need for speed
An industrial site so vast that no photo can do it justice: the North West Shelf LNG project
North West Shelf, as seen from the water's edge at Burrup
Chunky rocks
Evening sun makes them glow redder
Not a huge gas explosion
Martian landscape
They don't just have road trains after all
What happens if you hit a cow at full speed
Green and pleasant land
Take-off
A proud creature
Its skinny cousin
How Aussie? Vegemite in the bush
Some skinny-legged bird - oh, and an emu
Rainnie about to drop off the end of the earth at Exmouth
The start (or end) of the Ningaloo Reef
Close encounters of the kanga kind
Cape Range National Park - wow!
An echidna
Scary alien eye in the beach
A whole national park effectively to ourselves
Kanga tracks
Our David Attenborough moment
Hey! That's MY water pool! Get out of here!
Inter-species thirst quenching
Waiting her turn
Surrounded
Up close and personal
More dinosaurs
Kicker photos, Rainnie!
Slurp
Amazing
Lining up
Taking it easy after a few drinks
An evening stroll
A greenback turtle searches for somewhere to lay her eggs
All sorts of animals roam Australia
Snorkelling at Coral Bay
The other end of the Ningaloo Reef, at Coral Bay
Sorry Rainnie for making you walk along beaches with me looking like this
Eek! Jaws moment
Cute little baby sharks!
Ah! You just want to rub it under its chin
Rainnie proceeded to slide down this dune in a most amusing manner
Rainnie took this fabulous picture - but it was on my camera so I'm shoving it on my website anyway!
The only way to get rid of the flies on the boat: get into the slipstream of the boat itself
A wobbegong (or carpet) shark - the weirdest shark I've ever seen
Neoprene fish!
Diving totally rocks!
How to keep your lawn green in this arid part of the world
Our spot in the campsite right on the beach in Coral Bay
Atomic-age beach romance
Pawprint
Goodbye and goodnight, Coral Bay
Naughty naughty
Heading south, leaving the tropics behind us
A sandstorm appeared...
...crossed the road in front of us...
...and carried on on the other side of the road!
Road trains are somehow fascinating, as well as being scary to drive past
More Martian landscapes
A barren plateau
The bizarreness that is Shell Beach, on Shark Bay, Francois Peron National Park
Shell Beach really is made up just of shells of one kind of mollusc
How to get a better view
Loads of wildlife that is endemic only to this park
Dugong!!
They're like manatees, only copper-coloured
A late afternoon catamaran ride that started off sunny...
...and ended up soaking wet (the gits deliberately hit waves side-on)
Little & Large
Dolphins waiting to be fed at Monkey Mia
Bush tucker: these taste like coconut
Bouncy bouncy
Stromatolites: cushions of bacteria billions of years old
Getting closer to human habitation after weeks in the bush
Crazy banksia tree
Feeling suddenly less wild
Australians with guns and a sense of humour - I hope
Pinnacles national park
Pinnacles everywhere!
They even have pinnacle-shaped snacks
A natural wonder you can drive right through
A lucky bluetongue lizard that we thankfully didn't squash
The end of an era: we hit civilisation after three weeks
Top-notch pho at a delightful Vietnamese place in Northbridge, Perth
Perth town hall, built by convicts
A huge Moreton Bay fig
Bizarrely back in Bavaria, but in the Swan valley! With my mate Blake and some mates of his
Perth: wants so desperately to be a big city
Vast pristine beaches - in the city!
I walk alone at Swanbourne beach
I never tire of magical beach sunsets
Stately Fremantle
You can see Perth's CBD from the mouth of the Swan river at Freo
My last WA sunset
