Month: October 2013
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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Another Day in Margaret River
It has been an interesting day in Margaret River, with visits below the ground and above the ground. Our visit below the ground was the time that we spent at Jewel Cave, down the road towards the little town of Augusta. This cave is the largest of a number of caves in this predominanlty limestone […]
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Wineries & Sunset
We’ve had a gentle day in Margaret River on our first day in town. This place began its life as a timber town and eventually became a surfing centre with its nearby ocean beaches providing a very good break of waves. The area between here and Dunsborough to the north has become a prestigious wine […]
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On To Margaret River
it was an easy and leisurely drive over the 150 kilometres from Bunbury to Margaret River. We took the opportunity to potter along and enjoy some of the sights along the way. Our first stop was to the Dolphin Discovery Centre along Koombaba Bay. Apparently, per 200 dolphins live in this bay and they often […]
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Bunbury
Our trip from York to Bunbury was a little shorter than he long days that we had travelling to, and from, Geraldton. The weather was often overcast with periods of drizzle and the temperature as about 20 degrees. The hotel in York served the biggest plate of breakfast we had ever seen. There was no […]
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York
We had a fairly long driving day today, so we had a early start from Geraldton. The weather was nice – low 20’s and sunny. Not far south of Geraldton, we again came to the area of Greenough which used to be a separate shire, but is now absorbed into the greater Geraldton area. One […]
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