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...

Denham 9/8/08 Denham Car Kilometres: 169,758 Distance Travelled: 500km Total Distance Travelled: 1507km Denham is within the Shark Bay area (proudly announced on the road signs for about 200km's anywhere near Denham). It is pretty much a 3 or 4 street town and is officially the most westerly town in Australia.We arrived in Denhamafter another day of driving around 400 or so kilometres and checked into the Seaside Tourist Village which, was aptly named in th...

Wednesday 6thAugust - Kalbarri Kalbarri Car Kilometres: 169,258 Distance Travelled: 366km Total Distance Travelled: 1007km We pack up quickly and set sail for Kalbarri, taking it easy driving as Dave now has a nasty cold.I even do most of the driving, as Dave is concentrating mostly on blowing his nose.The strangest view of the morning is the pink lake at Port Gregory - the water has been stained by beta-carotene and other mineral by-products of local indus...

Monday 4thAugust - Geraldton Geraldton Car Kilometres: 168,892 Distance Travelled: 286km Total Distance Travelled: 641km Despite going to bed at 7pm, we hardly sleep as it's so cold.I'm not sure whether we've mentioned this before, but Dave and I have had ongoing discussions during the purchasing of the camping gear as to whether we need a duvet (doona), or not.We eventually decided not, and that the sheet and blanket that we had would suffice, since we wou...

Sunday 3rd August - New Norcia & Cervantes Starting Car Kilometres: 168,251 Cervantes Car Kilometres: 168,606 Distance Travelled : 355km After a lovely, and in the Aussie style, very drunken, send off from our respective workplaces on Friday, a recovery day at Mia and Anthony's on Saturday, and too many goodbyes; we head off on Sunday 3rd August out into the great unknown of Western Australia. Our Falcon is stuffed with aforementioned carefully purchase...