Our Australia trip

On the second day at Alexandra Bridge a fellow camper notices our soft tyre. Indeed there doesn’t seem much air left in one of our back tyres and it seems that the inner tube has sprung a leak. We decide to go back to Margaret River, which is only 40 km away to get it […]

Leaving Augusta without kiting seems such a waste. The wind has not been good for kiting on the river and the beach is too full with rocks or too wild with waves. Also the weather has turned colder and overcast. We pump up the kite and I gear up and wait along the shore of […]

From Canebreak pool we move past Margaret River, a quite touristic place. We have been here before and although we look around and stop at some places, there’s not too much to take pictures of (or of course we could have forgotten to take the camera with us once or twice). We stop at a […]

From Marybrook we do a loop back towards Cape Naturaliste. The coastline seems to be spectacular. Our first stop in Eagle Bay seems alright, we have seen nicer. And it is always great for a family picture. With dogs it usually takes a few tries. Following the Meelup road along the National Park gives some […]

We have now seen some of the beautiful inland of the Margaret River area and start to move away from the hilly countryside. Still we pass many wild flowers; spring is the right season for those. Then we go back to the beach, near Dunsborough. Before committing to the camping (we need to get a […]

The Ironstone gully rest area doesn’t feel right, whether it’s the tent that seems deserted or not, the greasy benches and gas BBQ (operating for free!), the buzzing blowflies, or just some eerie feeling, I don’t know but we decide to leave. Nossi says goodbye to his friend-for-one-night and we move on. Our first stop […]

We figure that, if the wind doesn’t work in our favour, there are more clouds around with the cold front (days of around 24 and nights 14 degrees) and soon we will be forced to use paid campings along the Margaret River area, we might as well explore more inland. We leave Australind / Leschenault […]

With kiting on our mind our next stop is Leschenault where the estuary seems a good place. It is big, facing the same way as the ocean (good for the prevailing south westerly wind) and you can walk everywhere. The camping is 80% permanents and it seems it has Christine on its mind. The bush […]

Mandurah is a pretty busy place. There’s a lot of development and traffic. The caravan park is nestled behind a shopping village, and although handy to have that in walking distance, we anticipate a lot of noise. Nothing could be further from the truth. The caravan park is stretched over a kilometer, starting behind the […]

We had earmarked this site in Perth quite a while ago as we wanted to catch up with Peter Lehtonen and also used his place as a mail drop and for a few reviews such as the best baby running prams one, published here.. Joran has been so kind to collect our mail and act […]