Gawler Ranges
Mulga Parrots Driving through Gawler was like being on a wildlife safari! Around every corner there was something to see…. red kangaroos, grey kangaroos, wallaroos, wombats, birds of prey, so…
Eyre Bird Observatory
We’ve been wanting to visit EBO for some time. It’s not exactly an easy location to get to… a 7hr drive from the nearest town of Esperance, the last 30km…
Lake Ballard
Where the red dirt meets the lip of lake Ballard, it feels like we are stepping into another realm—an otherworldly place inhabited by the ghostly “salt people.” The first, a…
The Minke Reef
As part of our continued efforts to explore this amazing country in a time of Covid, we found ourselves up on the Great Barrier Reef in search of Dwarf Minke…
Last Stop – Lord Howe!
We are at the end of our epic journey around Australia, and what a year we picked to travel! Despite the extra challenges, we found so many silver linings, including…
A Birdseye View of Burketown
We almost didn’t make it to Burketown, after a broken fan belt had us at a stand-still for a week. But we had been waiting to see Burketown for a…
Wet Season in the Top End
Camping in the tropical bush is true immersion in nature! We share every inch of space with an animal of some kind….. frogs, lizards, grasshoppers, birds or the spiders poised…
The Red Centre
Thousands of kms from the ocean, we look a bit odd towing our boat full of dive gear. But our lap of Australia wouldn’t be complete without passing through the…
Underneath Busselton Jetty
“Half way there”, “Keep going” read the signs of encouragement along Busselton Jetty. This is because it’s the longest timber-piled jetty in the Southern Hemisphere, stretching almost 2kms out to…