We flew into Perth, a small modern city and the capital of Western Australia. We were staying in Fremantle which is really a suburb to the south of the city which describes itself as home to artists, bohemians and lotus eaters but we did not see any of these strange creatures during our stay. Perhaps […]

We landed at Learmonth airport, some 37km outside the town of Exmouth, our destination. If anyone is thinking of coming here, beware the car hire charges. We discovered that our daily allowance of 100km a day began in town, thus, we had already used 37km (and the fuel) before we sat in the car and […]

We arrived in Broome on the top of the North West coast of Western Australia. It was not as hot as the central desert but the humidity must have been around 100% and very uncomfortable. In the dry heat of the desert we had been drinking a lot of water but in this humidity we […]

We flew into Ayers Rock, now known as Uluru, the lands having been given back to the local people by the Australian government. The sky was clear, the air was cooked and the red desert was dotted with green scrub, trees and grass that had taken advantage of unusual rain to colour patches around waterholes. […]

Having wandered along many of the Cairns Northern Beaches, stepped over fresh water rivers and streams that the rains had created, looking all around us for large reptilians creeping up on us we decide the car is the safest place. We continued our exploration by moving onto the Daintree National Park and Cape Tribulation. On approaching […]

We arrive in Cairns in north Queensland and back in the tropics once again. Snakes, spiders, salties, stingers and rain. All of these deadly dangerous things can kill, even by boredom, and it would be only a matter of time before one of them got us. Australia has half of the most venomous snakes in […]

We arrived in Sydney, Australia to spend the weekend with a good friend Iain, and his boys Tyler (13) and Connor (11) who had tragically lost wife and mother Joanne to cancer 6 weeks ago. Jo was in her early 40s, full of life and love and a centre piece of the local community and […]