Western Australia Travel Stories Articles
Chasing Horizons #22: Seeing Double in WA – Western Australia, AustraliaIt’s no wonder Phil felt so at home in Perth, almost everything he saw reminded him of Cape Town. Separated by 5000km of ocean, but so similar in many ways
Tales from a Broad #12Yeouch, is this ever one big country. I have just returned from a trip of such epic proportions that the mind boggles. Yes, that’s right. I drove right across Australia.
Having been called into the line of service by my employers, Newsforce, the mission set out before me was to drive from Sydney [...]
Finally Something "Right" – the Croot Farms
The surest bets in Kununurra are the Croot Farms and Oasis Farms for their rather civilized treatment of workers. The two are my indisputable recommendations, although they still fall far from what would be socially acceptable norms elsewhere in the First World.
I spent two months working for [...]
Farm Work in Western Australia ( 3/4 )
Job No. 2
You don’t stay unemployed in Kununurra for too long. The turnover of workers is extraordinary and many farmers do frequent rounds in their "troopies" (an Aussie word for ‘pick-up truck’), looking for seasonal workers. Even though most of the time people are desperately needed on farms, it doesn’t mean that backpackers have [...]
Tyrannical farmers, longs days and little money, b
Wildlife Extravaganza in Western Australia ( 7/14 )DAY 8 ~ Sunday
Having had enough of ‘civilization’ we headed up to Cape Range, where it was more wild and there were campsites that were au naturel! On the road to Exmouth we discovered that we had a sizeable chip in our windscreen and that the crack was spreading. So we thought we ought [...]
DAY 6 ~ Friday
It was time to move on again. Sadly we missed the first ’round’ of dolphins but didn’t want to leave until we’d said ‘goodbye’. They eventually came about 10.30 and we said our farewells before we hit the road.
On the way back to the highway we stopped to see a [...]
DAY 5 ~ Thursday
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Wildlife Extravaganza in Western Australia ( 4/4 )DAY 4 ~ Wednesday
Got organised early so that we could get on the road, as well as to stop and see the pelicans being fed. We arrived early and there were three enormous pelicans waiting on the beach. They waddled towards us thinking
that we had their fish breakfast. They are fed daily by a [...]
DAY 3 ~ Tuesday
“Lovely sunrise, wonderful site” I wrote in my diary. We headed off to explore the gorges of the National Park. First, the impressive views of Z bend, a deep narrow gorge, with a little water in it, very picturesque. There were also interesting geology formations – ancient ripples in the sandstone [...]
