Travelogues Western Australia

Now it is time to explore the Cape Range National Park. On the first day we drove to almost the end of the park, to Yardie Creek. This Creek is the only one with year-around...

Leaving the outback of Western Australia and heading back towards the coast, meaning beach & sun. It is a bit of a drive towards Exmouth past mining sites and otherwise just...

In the western section of the Karijini National Park is also Hancock Gorge with the challenging Kermits Pool walk, which requires walking and swimming through ice-cold water or...

After having a look around the eastern part of the Karijini National Park, it is time to explore the western part as well. Stuart wanted to get an overview of what there is to...

Now it is time to explore the Karijini National Park itself. We start at the eastern end, because it is further to drive from Tom Price than the western part. First stop is at...

For our last trip around Broome we chose Cape Leveque with an overnight stay at the Djarindjin Campground. First stop was after a 35km detour on gravel road James Price Point:...

Before heading off from Kununurra to the Gibb River Road our car needed some new tyres, as the spare tyre was already used in the Bungle Bungles. Luckily, a tyre shop had two...

Lookouts on the way to the southern end car park

We start from Fremantle to our next stop, Shell Beach. It's about 800km to drive, which we divide into two days with a break at the seaside. Driving through the desert at 40...

To stay up to date, here is the next blog entry. 😊 On Wednesday we traveled 396km from Esperance to our next destination, 'Wave Rock'. Wave Rock is a 15-meter-high rock wall in...

My alarm clock woke me up at 9:30am. 30 minutes left to pack up my stuff and check out from the hostel. I’m very happy with the way my backpack is organized. Everything has its...

Then we continued south, the landscape suddenly reminded me of home, some feelings of home came up: Gentle green hills, forests and fields and cows! In between idyllic...

Broome

This is Aussie.

On the way back from Broome to Darwin, we select individual highlights to stop at, partially drive on the Gibb River Road and partially on Highway 1, and make a longer relaxation...

About two years ago around this time, we got on a plane in Sydney and flew back to Frankfurt. I'm not sure why, but even back then I knew I would definitely come back here. I...

G'day from Western Australia! We've already been in this beautiful, compact capital city of Western Australia for three weeks. Our accommodation is the Billabong Backpacker...

We want to get straight to the point: we could have skipped the stop in Rockingham and the visit to Penguin Island: no sign of free-living penguins anywhere, which may be due to...

On Wednesday, we got up early to tackle the approximately 568km journey to Denham: infinitely long stretches that seem to go on forever and somehow never end. However, the whole...

From Karijini NP we continued to Exmouth and Coral Bay. Here is the Ningaloo Reef. Unlike the Great Barrier Reef, the reef is close to the coast and you can swim to the reef...

After a restful night, following a nocturnal thunderstorm (tent is waterproof), we headed to the Visitor Center to gather information about the 'Gibb'. After refueling the car...

Birthday celebration as a farewell and new flight

The air has now somewhat disappeared. We were already familiar with the outstanding distance, even though we had less time back then (2017) than we do this time. Now there was a...

03.08 - 05.08 Viviane’s journey started in Zurich with a little thrill as her flight was delayed by 1.5 hours. Marion, who started her journey in Hamburg, passed her 10-hour...

We are continuing our journey south to Kalbarri NP today, we even got caught in the first rain in 2 weeks today, it's gray outside, no sunshine so far. Yesterday morning we were...

After 630 km the northernmost point of our journey is reached. We arrived in wintery Broom at 32 degrees. Imagine driving from Krefeld and the next gas station is just before...

Is it exhausting to walk on your own feet... After reaching the next milestone today relatively early (450 km), we had time to enjoy the winter sun at 23 degrees during an...

By train between Fremantle and Perth