Having stayed in Exmouth an extra day meant we had only one night to spare before meeting friends in Denham in Shark Bay, around 750km away. We'd hoped to spend a night at Coral Bay - about 2 hours south of Exmouth, and then another night on one of the isolated stations on the coast north of Carnavon like Quobba or Gnaraloo, but needed to rethink our plans.Heading south, we arrived in beautiful Coral Bay just before lunch on the first wind free day for a while. T...

Exmouth was first used as a US military base during WW2 and became a cold war submarine base during the 1950s. The Very Low Frequency antenna array - 13 very tall antenna just north of Exmouth - was until recently the tallest man-made structure in the southern hemisphere and the base is named after 1950's prime minister Harold Holt who went missing off Portsea backbeach. It is only slightly ironic that a submarine communication station is named after him when som...

Our last two days in Broome were spent preparing for the long trip home as well as catching up on some last minute sight seeing activities. On mum's last night, we packed some drinks and afternoon tea, deflated the tyres, and drove onto Cable Beach with countless others north of the Cable Beach Club to watch the sunset, camels and general people watching whilst sipping on a G&T. The girls raced around playing and drawing in the sand - it always makes them so ...

Day 1 – Perth I flew down to Perth from Broome late on Tuesday night. After the usual crush of mine workers at Perth domestic taxi rank I made my way to Clive's house in Cottesloe, which was going to be my base for the next few days as I got the s***box ready. I polished off about half a bottle of Jamesons Irish catching up with Clive. The less said about that the better Day 2 – Perth I made my way to the Perth offices of my company to pick up th...

We flew via Kununurra to Darwin and arrived late afternoon (winding our clocks forward 1 1/2 hours). The apartment we'd booked online was a ripper - 21 floors up - with a magical view of the city, and there was just enough time to put our bags down before standing on the balcony and watching an amazing sunset. I'm sure it was made all the more magical due to the recent volcanic eruption in nearby Java. As a small girl, we'd lived in Darwin for around 18 months w...