Again I marvel at this amazing country, the sheer vastness of it and the endless length of road bound by red earth each side of the bitumen. I wished I had brought my thermos flask of hot water with me today as I had mistakenly thought I might find a café en route from Kalbarri …

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Had a lovely day today.  Left Port Denison about 8am and headed for Geraldton only 45 minutes away.  What a beautiful place.  Of course, the sun was shining which helped, although when I left Port Denison it was drizzling with rain.           Attended a 10.30am free tour of the HMAS Sydney …

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I left Fremantle about 8.30am amidst drizzly rain and headed straight for the nearest service station to fill up with petrol, then headed off to Port Denison.  This was a truly amazing drive through breath-taking scenery.  Imagine, if you will, sand dunes in the Sahara Desert.  Then cover them with green foliage and every so …

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I remember only too well arriving in Fremantle in early January 1974. That’s a lifetime ago! My ex husband and I had travelled on a jet/ship ticket – leaving from an icy cold winter’s day in Gatwick, England on Boxing Day 1973 and flying into the fierce humidity of Singapore 17 hours later (me still …

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This is such a lovely part of Australia, literally full of hidden jewels.  And one such gem is actually called the Jewell Cave. Now I haven’t been game to go down under the ground, let along into a cave for a very long time, not since the Waitomo Glow-worm caves as a child in NZ …

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I love to hear families having fun together, playing with their children and having a great holiday … but not when it’s into the wee hours! And that, unfortunately, is something that can happen quite unexpectedly – in this case a last-minute booking of two families into the YHA. I wasn’t the only person at …

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I find I am constantly modifying the way I’m travelling.  After lugging bags, food and esky up a flight of stairs to accommodation, it gets rather tedious, not to mention heavy.  Time to de-clutter I think! Last night I spent a lot of time booking accommodation for the next few days of my trip and …

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Anzac Day has a special meaning here in Albany Western Australia, because  on November 1, 1914, 30,000 young Australians and New Zealanders departed from here for Egypt and the battlefields of the Great War. They had never heard of Gallipoli or the Somme and it is tragic to think they had no idea where they …

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I stopped on the side of the highway to Esperance mid morning and made myself a cup of coffee (good old thermos) as there was a distinct lack of cafes on this part of the trip.  The scenery however, was rather breathtaking.  Quite suddenly one encounters over the crest of a hill, a salt lake …

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