After leaving Albany, we spent 2 days getting across to Esperance, staying overnight at a place called Quagi Beach, a little campspot tucked in amongst the dense vegetation along the coastline. We thought we'd scored a non-windy spot, but we were sorely mistaken - the tent flapped mercilessly all night. Things didn't change much when we reached Esperance. We had a fantastic view from our waterfront campsite, but boy, did it blow a gale. We ended up having to tak...

Left Pemberton and spent the morning on the roads dodging crazy drivers - some of the worst driving we've witnessed in 8 months being on the road. How noone died that morning is beyond us. Went and did the tree-top walk through the Valley of the Giants, in the soaring tingle forests that are only found in this region. The trees were over 40 metres high, it was a weird feeling walking through the canopy of the forest (especially as the walkway was quite flexible ...

Had a wonderful couple of days down in Augusta over Christmas, it was surprisingly uncrowded. We visited the Cape Leeuwin lighthouse, and saw where the Indian and the Southern Oceans meet. The next day we had a stinking hot Christmas, which saw us going for a swim at the beach, eating a cold meat and salad lunch, and then lolling about on the grass for the rest of the afternoon, clutching our over-full stomachs. Boxing Day we packed up and hit the road, driving ...

Leaving Perth we headed south, being followed by big rain clouds. We checked out Mandurah and Bunbury, then set up camp for a couple of days in Busselton. Unfortunately the weather did not improve, it was cold and rainy for most of our stay. That didn't stop Lee going fishing and catching a nice sized flounder though. We also walked out on the historic Busselton Jetty, the longest timber jetty in the southern hemisphere at 1.8km long. Pushing on, we checked out ...

After leaving New Norcia, staying the night in Gin Gin, then going back to New Norcia the next day to pick up Lea's bag that she'd left behind, we drove straight to Fremantle to have some big city life for a while. Set up the camper, then wandered down to the Freo foreshore, and promptly got freaked out by big city life (it was Sunday, and it seemed the entire population of Perth and Freo were at the pub for the "Sunday session"). We turned around, wal...