After leaving Monkey Mia, we had a quick stop at Hamelin Pool, to check out some ancient cyanobacteria that were the first "living things" on the planet - the stromatolites. These ones at Hamelin are relatively young, only about 6000 years old. It was cool to see something so old that was still living, even though Lee was slightly bored because the rocks didn't "do" anything. Lea assured him that at high tide, they farted (she had read the sig...

From Carnarvon we trekked down to Denham, a little seaside town on the west side of the peninsula from Monkey Mia, near the westerly-most point in Australia. As we are quickly learning, it is very hard to find a place out of the wind at this time of the year, and Denham was no exception. After a few days of getting windblasted, we moved camp to Monkey Mia itself, we figured it was better to get windblasted there, in a more resort-style environment! We watched th...

We decided to take the short cut (read: dirt road) from Cape Range National Park down to Coral Bay. Heck, we've done over 2000km on the dirt so far, this 150km trek was going to be easy... After 3 hours, one bogging in the sand (Steve & Lisa), and a million bumps, we finally made it to Coral Bay. By no means was it a short cut, but it was definitely an adventure. The wind had picked up again, making fishing rather difficult, but the boys gave it a fair crack...

We put in a solid day's drive from Point Samson and arrived in Exmouth in the late afternoon, slightly deranged from being in the car for so long (we only usually do 2-3 hours at a time these days), and perhaps also from all the lollies we ate along the way. We found Lisa, Steve and Torah at the caravan park, and it was a joyous reunion, even though we'd only been apart a few days. Lee had his fishing buddy back, and Lea had her cardgame/beachgoing buddy back. Al...

On leaving Karijini, Tom Price, and Lisa, Steve and Torah behind, we travelled through Millstream National Park - once a cattle station, the beautiful old homestead now serves as an information centre. We spent most of the day touring around the yards of the homestead, checking out the large spring-fed waterway, and taking a drive down a road named after our favourite tree for campfire timber - the Snappy Gum. Snappy, Snappy everywhere and not a limb to burn... n...