Day 6, Rockingham to Margaret River 250km First thing in the morning we head to Penguin Island, which was cheaper than Rottnest by far and loads better, infact simply stunning. There was a crazy amount of birds being a conservation area, little retiles, the clearest torquoise water and little baby rescued penguins being fed fishies. Did you know ??....The deepest a baby penguin has dived is 67m (that's twice the limit for me to scuba dive!), they can eat their b...

Day 1, Perth to Geraldton 545km We pick up Carlos, introducing our camper van that will feature greatly in the story that follows. So after a painful hour at the camper hire place, where they repeat everything twice we head on our way. 25km north of Perth we hit scenery that will be pretty standard for this part of the trip. Roads that literally go on for miles, lined with red sandy dirt tracks and then again as far as you can see bushes, heathers and the occasi...

I survived my first lone plane journey with ease and was in fact treated like royalty, being one in a handful of people that got served dinner which was very tasty and free drinks (I assume as I booked my RTW ticket with Quantas and this flight was with Jetstar, technically a downgrade!) the people sat around me where wondering who I was and why I was so special, little did they know I am actually a backpacker..... My first impressions of Australia were good, we...