Now that we had communed with dolphins at Monkey Mia there remained some other important/interesting locations to visit as we made our way back out of the Shark Bay World Heritage Area. The first was about fifteen minutes south from Denham. Named Eagle Bluff Lookout, it offered us views over a part of Shark Bay. …
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The helpful staff at Denham Tourist Information Centre had detailed to us what was required with going to see the dolphins at Monkey Mia when we had popped in there the previous day. So we took a quick breakfast and drove off in the early dawn towards Monkey Mia. After paying our park entry fee …
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Like many natural wonders in Western Australia one has to be prepared to leave the main highway to go into Shark Bay World Heritage Area. The good news is that it is a sealed road and anyone can go there. So it was when we arrived at the turnoff from the Carnarvon to Geraldton highway …
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To this point of our journey we hadn't stayed on a farm station in Western Australia. Not that far south from Carnarvon and just off the main road was Wooramel Station and a couple at Carnarvon had recommended it to us so off we went. Arriving late morning allowed us a good chance to pick …
The next day we started off with a reasonably early visit to the local farmer's market. We purchased a few fruit and vegie items as we moved around the stalls. Amazingly we bumped into my old boss and his wife. They were also caravanning through WA but were heading north to Broome. Had a good …
Carnarvon is WA's fruitbowl so we had heard, but driving into the town over the river we were surprised to see only a dribble of water. After setting up at the caravan park we headed to the Visitor Information Centre. Here we found out that most of the river is below ground and is pumped …
Our next stop was at Coral Bay, which was only about 150kms south, mostly down the Exmouth to Minilya Road before turning west for 12 kms into Coral Bay at the end. Even though Coral Bay is a small town there are two large caravan parks and a resort for visitors. We stayed at Ningaloo …
After walking in Charles Knife Gorge on the inland side of Cape Range National Park the following day we drove from Exmouth up and around the tip, past the lighthouse to the sea side of the national park. At the southern end of the sealed road we could access Yardie Creek Gorge, the only gorge …
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After an overnight stop in Port Hedland we headed inland on Highway 95 towards the mining town of Newman. The first section would be about 290kms before the turn off to Karajini. Things were going smoothly until just before 11:00 when we started to back up in a line behind something. As most of the vehicles …
Once our new tyres were put on the Hilux in Tom Price we moved on the next day to the west, firstly travelling through another mining town, Paraburdoo. After a long drive we stopped at Nanutarra roadhouse to refuel. From there we drove a bit further before stopping for the night at the Yannarie Rest …
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