I’ve been mentioning Steep Point for a while now – it’s the westernmost point of mainland Australia and was the final compass point that Nick and I needed to hit in order to cover off all four – south, east, north, and west. And from Steep Point, it was pretty much a beeline down the coast to our hotel reservation (on points – yay free hotels!) in Perth. Here’s a map of what this post will cover in the paragraphs ahead: Steep Point was definitely the most remote of the compass points we’ve visited. Getting there requires first getting to the westernmost part of WA, known as Edel Land, and…

After nearly two weeks checking out Ningaloo Reef, it was on to the next part of the west coast: Carnarvon, Shark Bay, and the Edel Peninsula. One of the most mind-blowing things about this trip, that strikes us again and again, is how we’ve already seen so much – including some truly “bucket list” places – but there’s still more ahead to see, and get really excited about. This truly is the experience of a lifetime and we’re counting our lucky stars every day that we get to be here! On this leg, from Carnarvon to Perth, it’s hard to choose what we were looking forward to the most: hitting…

So we’ve seen this hashtag around on Instagram, #westcoastbestcoast, and yep, we’re definitely on board. It’s hard to believe that we spent about 2 weeks on and around Ningaloo Reef – definitely more than we’d planned, especially since we’ll be back this way in May-ish to swim with the whale sharks (none around at the moment – they’ve all migrated away for the season). Ah well, we keep being reminded that plans don’t count for much on a trip like this. Plans are made for breaking!! Here’s two maps to orient you to the rest of this post. First, our entire trip so far, with the area covered in this…

We loved Broome, but as usual, there’s so much more to see and do and experience, so back to the road it was for your friendly yellow Jeepers! We’re super excited for our next major destination – Exmouth & Cape Range National Park, home of Ningaloo Reef, which is home to heaps of sea life in the form of fish, sharks, turtles, whales, and dolphins. The best part? Whereas you need to book a tour or hire a boat to see the Great Barrier Reef, Ningaloo Reef is swimmable from shore – sometimes less than 50 metres out from the beach. But first, we need to get there. If this…

We departed Kununurra just in time – at our goodbye happy hour the night before we left, a huge thunderstorm rolled in. This was the official start of the wet season, when the northern part of Australia get a massive amount of rain over the next few months until the autumn (April-ish). Kununurra as an example of a town impact by “the wet” receives about 844mm of rain per year, nearly all of which falls from December to March: usual rainfall in January is 210mm, in July it’s 0mm. The annual rains roll in to much celebration and joy among the locals, as it signifies the end of the “build…

It’s not all waterfalls, deserts, and bush camps around here – a girl’s gotta eat! (And feed her husband, who would otherwise subsist on bread and peanut butter) I’m trying to stay in the habit of writing a blog post every few days and so I thought it would be fun to share with you guys a few of our favourite camping meals, complete with some pictures of dubious quality. Obviously, the #1 camp meal of all time in Australia is sausages wrapped in cheap white bread, it doesn’t even merit mentioning in our list because obviously we eat that at least a couple of times a month. Not Australian?…

In my last post I mentioned that the roads out to Purnululu (the Bungles) and to Wolfe Creek were pretty rough. I think whoever left this graffiti on the Purnululu informational map probably had a similar experience to us… There were a few bull dust holes and not-flush cattle grids that rattled the Jeep, one in particular pretty hard, causing us to look at each other with that apprehensive “uh oh” look right after we hit it. I know what you’re thinking – were we going too fast? – and it’s a fair question, as most tourers know, driving corrugated roads is a fine balance between “too fast” and “not…

In the last post covering Judbarra and Lake Argyle, I have to confess, I cheated a bit: the last two photos were taken in Purnululu National Park, home of the Bungle Bungles. But, I really think the Bungles deserve to be at the top of a post, so here we are again! Here’s a map of what we cover in this post in green. Previous areas we’ve covered are in red. You can also always follow us live on our mapshare map, which is pinged frequently by our InReach satellite device! The Bungle Bungles are a unique rock formation located in Purnululu National Park. They have a distinctive zebra-striping pattern…

This post covers from 3 October 2018 to around 5 October 2018, when we travelled from Darwin through Judbarra (Gregory) National Park to Lake Argyle at the southeastern edge of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Here’s a map of the area covered in this post in green – areas we’ve previously written about are in red. You can also always follow us live at our mapshare link, which is frequently updated by our satellite device. It’s been stationary here in Kununurra for about 3 weeks now, hopefully we’ll be on the move again soon! Since before even beginning this trip, WA (Western Australia) was one of the parts of…

From our little sojourn in hotels in Bali and Darwin, it was time to head back to the bush, by way of Kakadu National Park. Here’s a map of the area covered in this post in green, along with the entire journey so far (past areas covered are in red). We were in Kakadu for five nights, from the 25th through the 30th of September. We could have stayed longer and explored more!! I think seven nights would have been about right. I’ll kick it off by mentioning that most of the other travellers and locals we met referred to Kakadu as “Kaka-don’t”. The view is that it’s very expensive…