Monthly Archives: March 2011

A day in Perth

Today we visited the aquarium in Hillary’s Harbour.  We spent a couple of hours there in the morning, then ate our lunch back in the motorhome, and returned for another hour or so in the afternoon.  It was nicely done … Continue reading

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Leaving Bunbury

Yesterday, Saturday, we stopped at the dolphin interpretive centre in Bunbury in the morning.  When we arrived they said “you just missed the dolphins,” so we went into the inside displays and looked at them for a while.  We then … Continue reading

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Prevelly Beach

We spent the morning at Prevelly Beach.  We were some of the first “casual” users there, though there were a lot of hard-core surfers out past the reef at the point.  We went to a swimming/surfing beach near where the Margaret … Continue reading

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Lake Cave

We walked to Lake Cave this morning, approximately a 30 minute walk from our campsite, for a tour of the cave.  After a 60 metre walk down on the stairs we were guided around underground for about an hour.  It … Continue reading

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Tall Trees

We stopped outside of Pemberton today to look at the tall Karri trees.  They are the world’s tallest hardwood trees, some of them as tall as ninety metres.  We stopped first at the Gloucester Tree.  This is one of the … Continue reading

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Snorkelling at Greens Pool

We left Albany this morning and drove to Greens Pool (an ocean lagoon) at Williams Bay National Park.  It was cool and actually rained a bit at about 6 am this morning, but by the time we got to the … Continue reading

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Torndirrup National Park

Today we went to the ocean west of Albany (though we’re still staying at the same caravan park tonight).  Our first stop was at Whaling Cove where we did some snorkelling.  There is supposed to be a snorkel trail here, … Continue reading

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Snorkelling at Little Beach

We drove about 40 km east of here today to the Two Peoples nature reserve, and stopped at Little Beach.  The beach has beautiful clear turquoise blue water and white sand.  We first snorkelled in a bay to the far … Continue reading

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Albany, Western Australia

We drove the rather dull 480 km between Esperance and Albany today.  Except for one stop for fuel, and another for lunch, we just drove.  There really isn’t much to see, except for huge storage areas where the farmers deliver … Continue reading

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Hellfire Bay

This morning we left le Grand Beach, and drove to some of the other bays starting at the east end by going to Lucky Bay and working our way back toward the west.  Lucky Bay was quite calm, and other … Continue reading

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