Gps 35 01.238s 117 54.960e we mark the start of a new month with a storm- wind and rain and with middleton beach just the other side of the sand dunes from our tent- giant waves crashing on the shore! Luckily we had well secured the tent last night but for the first time in ages we woke up feeling cold! Jims having problems with his blow up matt...

What a great start to the day. We had breakfast early and left the campsite at 7:15am Yesterday we saw a sign which said that the time there was 45 minutes behind that in South Australia. We drove the tourist loop around Esperence which ended in a 10km stretch of coatline which was not fabulous, not wonderful but truly dazzling.There is no other...

Drove Sheila off to her 9:00 appointment to get the tyres changed and Stan the Garage man said to come back at 10:30 so we had a little look around Walpole although to be honest there's not that much there. Got back and headed off towards the Valley of the Giants Treetop Walk which is a metal bridge walk about 40 feet in the air next to these hu...

More rain in Denmark so we headed for Albany via a blueberry farm and a scenic peninsular drive where lots of kangaroos played statues as we drove by. The coastline was gorgeous and we stayed at a nice B&B with sea views. The town is quite big so we pottered around. There are lots of nice suburbs along the coastline too with big posh houses....

Today is Australia Day, we have been told that everywhere will be booked up months in advance for this weekend but we get a site in the first campsite we try. Maybe it was because of where we were staying, but there was not much going on for Oz day. There was a fireworks display though which was quite good but other than that we celebrated it wi...

"White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise. Return Of The King "I am an FBI Agent!!" Point Break We've been on the road for a week now, and have arrived in sunny Albany. Looking at the map of Australia we've not done a very good job in terms of distance travelled (maybe an eighth of the way to Melbourne) but in terms ...

I met a very nice New Zealand couple who invited me to come and see them when and if I ever get there. The backpackers ran off the Aeroplan letter for me and I taped the boarding cards to paper; went to the post office to mail it; had to go over to the library to run it off and wait for an elderly lady to run off dozens of copies of a Christmas ...

Even though we're knackered we're still awake early this morning. It doesn't help that we're woken at 7am by some posh english guy outside the window talking about how wrrreeeccckeeed he was last night. ****. The morning is spent wandering round Albany doing a bit of shopping and I have a fruitless search for a guitar to tide me over while I'm h...

The weather became warmer and warmer and with scratching at 30 degrees even Perth locals got rid of their winter jackets and slowly turned of their heaters at home. :-) The "Westcoast Eagles" -the Perth Aussie rules football team- just won the Grand Finals by one point difference in a great game and everyone was in high spirits. Tommy and I deci...

Alex wanted to try the van out as it was an unknown quantity, so the three of us set of down to Albany to set how he (Burt) would get on, only had one problem which was we ran out of fuel, Oh no. Once we had our night down in Albany we set off up the west coast calling at valley of giants( big trees), Glouester tree (61 meters high), Augusta tow...