Fitzroy Crossing - Tuesday 26th August Fitzroy CrossingCar Kilometres: 172,754 Distance Travelled: 367km Total Distance Travelled: 4503km From Broome, we're up and about at 7ish, packing up quickly and dropping into the shops on our way for some cheese and vegemite scrolls and a bottle of squash to make our six bottles of warm journey water a little more appetising. It's a 450km drive to Fitzroy Crossing, our stopover on the way to Kunnunara, and aside fro...

Broome (& 80 Mile Beach) 21/8/08 Broome Car Kilometres: 172,387 Distance Travelled: 779km Total Distance Travelled: 4136km The next stop was due to be Broome but after one 770km run up to Port Hedland we decide to break up the journey and stop at a camp site on 80 Mile Beach. I am not sure if 80 Mile Beach is actually 80 miles long. These Aussies aren't exactly accurate in place names like this. (I could see both ends of the '10 mile creek' we drove ove...

Port Hedland 19/8/08 Port Hedland Car Kilometres: 171,608 Distance Travelled: 853km Total Distance Travelled: 3357km The journey to Port Hedland was interesting for a couple of points; firstly, it was the longest single day we have done so far with a 770km distance. The longest we had done in day before this was about 550km's so this was another step above that. The second thing was that at one point on the journey it was the longest distance between instru...

Thursday 14th August - Exmouth Exmouth Car Kilometres: 170,755 Distance Travelled: 422km Total Distance Travelled: 2504km We pack up quickly, although we struggle a bit in the wind that's started to pick up, and set off - passing hundreds of red and brown, shoulder high termite nests on the way.We arrive at a huge campsite in Exmouth where we have plenty of room to spread out, and set up camp. We drive to the peninsular, and after viewing the remains of a ...

Coral Bay 12/8/08 Coral Bay Car Kilometres: 170,333 Distance Travelled: 575km Total Distance Travelled: 2082km We were on the road for 10am, but this was slightly later than planned as we were both kept awake by a noisy German couple in a camper just behind us. Obviously they weren't experienced in the sound insulation of tents and were talking and shouting to each other across the camp site. Inside a van (as most people were), it would have been barely not...