Category Archives: Australia, 2010-11

This place (apparently mia is the word for “shelter” in the local abboriginal dialect) has a rather strange name.  No one is quite sure where the “monkey” part of the name came from, though it may be the name of … Continue reading →

We stopped at several of the small towns (resort towns really from what we could see) along the way looking for the good swimming and snorkeling spots described in our guidebook.  We really didn’t find anywhere, especially since the onshore … Continue reading →

We left Perth this morning after speaking to a salesman at the Winnebago dealership there; however we won’t be selling our home through them, and the conversation helped us to firm up our plans for the next weeks.  We will … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →