Year: 2013
Falls Creek
We spent a few days at the alpine village of Falls Creek last week to take some photographs and enjoy some of the alpine environment. Along with the village of Mt Hotham on the other side of the valley, Falls Creek is the gateway to the Bogong High Plains. We were surprised to find so […]
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A Long Weekend in Canberra – 3
Our final day on this little jaunt saw us driving from Jindabyne to Canberra where we spent the better part of two days. The country side around Breadalbane and then through Cooma is quite scenic – undulating and a bit reminiscent of the topography of the high plains areas. It was a nice sunny day […]
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A Long Weekend in Canberra – 2
Today, we made our way to Jindabyne in the Snowy Mountains. We left Albury late in the morning and ambled through Bandiana and Bonegilla to Tallangatta. The Hume Dam, which we circumnavigated for many kilometres is very full (as we knew from my Army reunion last August when we were told that the they were […]
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A Long Weekend to Canberra -1
It probably wasn’t a good idea to book in for a sleep study on the night before driving to Canberra. I have been feeling a little fatigued lately and a part of the analysis is to see how well I am sleeping. It was a little hard to sleep with so many wires attached to […]
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A Night Away in our Own City
We have just returned home after a very decadent twenty four hours away just in Melbourne, our own city. Aiming for a quick break, we checked into a city hotel yesterday and had a very leisurely time strolling through the city. We did a little shopping but the biggest attraction was the Myer Store Christmas […]
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Western Australia’s Strange Clothing Habits?
I was in a local Perth Woolworths supermarket and saw this sign over an aisle pointing to the Family Underwear section. OK, so what does this mean? Do Western Australians share their underwear around? Do dads wear mum’s lacy knickers or do they just have a bin in the hallway where you pick up a […]
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To Perth via Hyden
Over the last two days of our travel we have driven from Kalgoorlie to Perth with an overnight stop in the little town of Hyden, right in the middle of the West Australian Wheat Belt. Not long after leaving Kalgoorlie, we passed through the old gold mining town of Coolgardie. With streets wide enough to […]
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Kalgoorlie
I have been a little delayed with my posts as, like most other on our bus, I have caught a bad cold and I haven’t felt like writing after a day of driving. When you are travelling with others, it very hard for affliction to not be passed on. The distance from Esperance to Kalgoorlie […]
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Esperance – Beaches & Azure Water
It was a beautiful day yesterday (Sunday) – sunny and mild with very little wind. It was a perfect day for exploring the beaches and coastline around this region. Esperance is blessed with magnificent beaches and beautiful scenery. it is 720 kilometres to the south east of Perth. The population of Esperance is about 10,000 […]
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Esperance Wildflower Route
Yesterday, we travelled the long distance from Albany to Esperance. We had over 480 kilometres to travel through a variety of wheat farms, mallee type scrub and bushland. We broke up the trip with a number of stops to look at wild flowers and to have a stretch of legs. Many of the good wildflower […]
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Albany
Our trip from Pemberton to Albany on Thursday was a pleasant touring day. Easy driving, and stops at a few major sites with interesting things to see. This area of WA is largely forested with some giant trees. The largest of them are the Tingle Trees, another variety of Eucalypt. Those trees are quite shallow […]
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Pemberton
Today we drove a short distance from Margaret River to Pemberton, a little timber town in the SW of Western Australia. This trip of about 138 mms only took a couple of hours and we were in Pemberton in time for lunch which we had in a little cafe in the main street. This town […]
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