Busselton, Australia Travel Blogs

Portrait of Travelling Companions III
Apr 17, 2005 (1 photos)

... my first tentative jumps off the jetty, my first tentative bicyclings along the fine bike paths of Busselton, my first foray into the drinking of Australia's multitude of pre-mixed bottled alcoholic drinks, my first wild game of doubles ping-pong. We ...

More Time in Busso
Mar 6, 2005 (5 photos)

So after a few weeks of grape picking and cleaning super market floors I thought I was coming to the end of my time in Busselton when Sam, the owner of the hostel, said he'd found a job for me for a month, packing table grapes (as opposed to wine grapes) ...

Snip, Snip, Snip
Mar 18, 2005 (3 photos)

The new job has begun and a week of it has passed; it's quite boring and not something I'd want to brag about on my resume, but it's money, isn't it? It's not really packing grapes so much as cleaning them up to be packed: snipping out the rotten ones, ...

The Whale Rescue!!!
Jun 2, 2005 (8 photos)

... of the most amazing days in our lifes so far! Today we helped to rescue 100 false killer whales that had beached themselves in Busselton. My Uncle Derek had left a message on our phone letting us know about what was happening so as soon as we heard we ...

It's the Amazing Race - Perth to Busselton
May 31, 2005 (6 photos)

... came when we had to try and park the winnebago outside Maccers but the boys completed the task successfully. We hit the road down to Busselton where we park up for the night in a car park down at the beach. Sarah then teaches Thomas and I how to play ...

Almost to the Indian Ocean...
Jun 11, 2005

Nearly to the coast Surfers paradise Backpackers ok, more Australians than usual Live music venue only place to go in the evening Coincidence of meeting girls from Cocklebiddy Roadhouse

Settling Down for a While
Feb 13, 2005 (1 photos)

... I wanted to stop and stretch every twenty minutes. It ended up taking just less than five hours to make the whole distance. Busselton isn't exactly a big, jumpin' hot spot of a town. Its claim to fame is that it has the southern hemisphere's longest ...

Lessons Learnt Lately
Mar 30, 2005 (4 photos)

... All of these, of course, are skills that you'll soon find decorating my CV, in preparation for a job in which I have drive in Australia, feed myself with only a fishing rod, find things in the ocean, be a hairdresser and a doctor all in one . . . no, ...

Perth to Bussleton
Jun 1, 2005 (11 photos)

31st May 2005. First thing in the morning we grabbed our Amazing race hats, packed out things and headed for the campervan. The amazing race hats have a special place for us. Back in Sydney on a tuesday evening was a program called "The Amazing Race ...

Saving The Whales
Jun 3, 2005 (6 photos)

2nd June 2005 Continued............ We turned the campervan around and headed back the way that we hade come in order to get back to Bussleton. We took the inland road and drove the 60k's in what seemed a very short time indeed. Once at Bussleton ...

Night Shift Blues
Feb 17, 2005 (5 photos)

... a valley of vineyards north of Margaret River. There were people at the vineyard who came from places other than the Busselton Backpackers, so there were about thirty pickers there to train. We got handed a series of number tags, tupperware buckets, ...

'Just keep riding'
Dec 9, 2007 (30 photos)

... experience. As this little motorbike mission of mine involves taking in all the nooks and crannies of coastal Australia, stopping and taking in places like Busselton and its oversized jetty seemed a nice touch and certainly part of the idea. Yet I was ...

Perth to Busselton
Nov 12, 2004

... fish and drove to the information centre to score our daily fix of leaflets. Nestled on the shores of Geographe Bay, Busselton is a popular family summer holiday spot with calm waters lapping endless white sand beaches. Its also home to the longest ...

Tim and Crystal
Apr 27, 2008 (27 photos)

... . Whoever looses gets a tea towel on his/her head and is the name which shall not be used. The next day we go to Busselton Archery. The Tomcat wins, I loose. Then, hours in the swimming pool.  After dinner, we play dare: you get dared to do things. I ...

Boxing Day in Busso
Dec 26, 2007 (5 photos)

44 degrees and we were in the beautiful deep blue sea :)

Ironmen
Dec 5, 2007 (19 photos)

... to find out my duties for the day.  I was told to go and enjoy myself and watch some of the swimming which I did - Busselton has the world's longest wooden jetty (2km) and competitors had to swim to the end and back - crazy!  After I went to the ...

Busselton
Mar 17, 2006 (5 photos)

... to take a guided tour of the lighthouse here. The next two nights were spent at a site in the heart of Busselton, a pretty little town boasting a 2km long jetty which we enjoyed amidst magnificent sunsets (wow!). Farewells to friendly ex-poms we'd met ...

is it friday the 13th or are we just unlucky!?
Nov 24, 2007 (5 photos)

... down and he was beating it with a branch... we needed that branch too... The sign on the roundabout said "welcome to Busselton". So we were within spitting distance of this tourist trap town when cohzy maz had her first mishap. Hot water burst into the ...

bargains galore
Nov 25, 2007 (5 photos)

After yesterdays traumas we are reluctant to go anywhere so we make the most of the site facilities. With 2 swimming pools and a huge jumping pillow  what more could we want! We spent some time this morning sticking carpet to the roof lining of maz ...

Busselton
Feb 12, 2007

Busselton

The roving campers
Oct 23, 2009

Here we are in our natural element enjoying the open air life of the campgrounds of South West Australia.  After very emotional farewells with Peter and Claire we drove back to Sydney and then flew out to Perth the following lunchtime (Sunday).  ...

Busselton - the day that teh Rains came Down
Dec 10, 2005 (13 photos)

... ANIMALS. THERE WERE THREE LITTLE ORPHANED BABY KANGAROOS, YOU CAN SEE THIER PICTURE WITH SCRUFF. WHAT ARE BABY KANGAROOS CALLED IN AUSTRALIA? WE ALSO SAW SOME WOMBATS AND DINGOES. SEE IF YOU CAN FIND OUT WHAT THESE TWO ANIMALS ARE AND FIND SOME ...

keeping in touch
Nov 26, 2007 (5 photos)

This campsite is so good it even has wireless internet that we can pick up so a priority for us today is to keep updating you all. We managed to link up with a few of you on msn last night - that was great! The beach here is another beauty so we spend ...

Busselton Jetty
Jul 30, 2006

What a wash out.... we arrived in Busselton and you cant even go and visit its one and only attraction - the underwater observatory (http://busseltonjetty.com.au/). Basically as it has been raining non-stop for the last week, it is too merky underwater ...

Margaret River
Apr 24, 2006 (3 photos)

To the south We picked up the van on Saturday 1st April and had to laugh when we saw it, we'd imagined a snug little thing with compact and bijou facilities. What we got was a great long van, complete with: - toilet, shower, full-sized fridge, ...

Busselton
Mar 26, 2009

Well we are in the beautiful Margaret River Region, and in a very nice 5 star caravan park. The weather is improving (as I write this) today being 29.  Yesterday we did some sampling of wines, and a visit to a few boutique breweries.  Having ...

Day 63 - Perth to Busselton
Nov 4, 2007 (12 photos)

... work early especially - but didn't make a big deal about it, top man that he is ;) Once packed we headed off for Busselton, which is co-incidentally the town where Si will be moving to in a few week's time, as he completes his "country posting" for ...

Busselton - Day 5
Mar 28, 2009 (3 photos)

Well I did promise you some photos, so here they are!  Today we did a bit of sightseeing to Dunsborough, and Yallingup (surf beach areas) and then we progressed to some more wineries, and a few breweries.  We stop at one of Geoff's favourite ...

Road trip...
Sep 28, 2005 (3 photos)

... into the Wander Inn Backpackers Hostel - $25 a nite and free beer, internet and chocolate cake! The road took us to Busselton after booking in - down to see the longest timber jetty in the Southern Hemisphere and then we decided we just couldn't pass a ...

down on the farm
Nov 26, 2007 (5 photos)

                When in busselton the done thing for tourists to do is visit the underwater observatory at the end of the 1.8km jetty, the 2nd longest in the world, beaten only by our ...