Election Day here in Australia and we need to go to Kalbarri to vote. We spent some time on the foreshore chilling out reading our first newspaper in months, with a great view of the mouth of the river and ocean in front of us. Unfortunately, on the way out of town, I got pulled up by the cops for speeding in what was still a 50 zone. Luckily, in WA the minimum $100 fine does not include any points. Drove carefully the rest of the way back to our campsite along...

Left the Principality of Hutt River this morning and took the long way round through the town of Northampton towards Port Gregory, where we are staying at the historic Lynton Station. This used to be a convict hiring depot in the 1850s and was the first convict depot in WA north of Fremantle. Up to 60 ticket of leave convicts were brought here as labour for the local Geraldine mine site, but their labour was instead used to build the convict settlement. There ar...

We left the lovely Murchison House Station next to the Kalbarri National Park after three nights camped by the river. Before we left, I went to see the farm animals including llamas, chickens and goats. We did some chores in Kalbarri (supermarket, dump point and fuel) before heading south of town, skirting the stunning coastal cliffs, surf breaks and hidden coves. We stopped at Rainbow Jungle parrot habitat, which we really enjoyed. We got to see a variety of e...

It rained steadily all night last night - but was still quite warm inside the caravan. We woke up to slush and mud outside but at least it only rained intermittently during the day. We decided to stay here at Murchison House Station another day as we weren't keen to drive the car and caravan out the 4km of slushy dirt out to the main road. We relaxed outside under cover and enjoyed the serenity of sitting on the bank of the river. In the afternoon Gadi took the...

We are still staying at Murchison House Station just out of Kalbarri, and this morning Gadi left early to check out the nearby national park, with its gorges and canyons and Cadbury and I chilled at our campsite. I sat outside under the awning relaxing in the dappled sunlight, reading and playing scrabble on my iPad and then watched a movie. Gadi got back early afternoon and ended up going to town to buy some fresh caught fish and watch the sunset (with a nice ...