The morning of the 9th of June, couldn't come quick enough for Vikki and I. We had been waiting in anticipation for months to start our holiday of exploring the top end of WA. After spending the night in Broome we met Kieran, Nikki and Azra at the Cable Beach car park at approx 7.30am, once completing a quick check we hit the road to travel along the Highway to find the turn off to Cape Leveque, 203 kilometres of road way that will test the best of cars suspen...

Home Valley Station 19/20/21/-06-2012 Up nice and early today the 19th of June, nice crisp morning. Went over to check how John K and his Car were fairing, John was going to attempt the drive to Home Valley station some 254K's from Drysdale. It may of been a safe bet with both Kieran and I to watch over them on the way and help out if the Radiator packed it in. Anyway the trip never got started as the radiator dropped its guts and that was that, end of the sho...

The afternoon of the 14th saw us arrive at the Silent Grove camp ground, Silent Grove Campground is a pretty standard national park campground with all the usual facilities. You pass it on the way, about 10 km before you get to Bell Gorge. Well, at this stage you can't book a remote bit of dirt in the bush. You just rock up and squeeze in with everyone else which is what we did, That night saw Nikki and Kieran get Azra off to bed early, then the frothy stuff c...

Well what a day its been, We left Karatha at 7am this morning, after filling with diesel 120 litres @ $1.69 we headed out past the information centre and had to get a coffee from the Javavan, best coffee in the Pilbara!!. We set our destination for Broome, ETA 3pm, "wrong". Really slow trip 80k's out of Port Hedland into town, very busy with heavy haulage and stopping traffic to let the huge loads go by. Managed to get into Caltex at 9am in Hedland, picked up ...