Sometimes this blog doesn't always link the Photo album to the actual blog so you might need to click on the "Photos" button above. Greg had suggested that we book our tour of the Ngilgi Caves with a Wadandi Cultural Custodian Josh Whiteland. Unfortunately, neither Josh or his partner responded to my numerous phone and text messages, so we did it alone …. Not even with any other tourists. I have at least benefited from this advice in a local tourist site...

Just a reminder, the photographs I post will have the same heading as the blog for each day. I'll post my photos today as "Goonga goombar (Humpback Whale)" After a lifetime of trying to see whale migrations on the east coast of Australia, I decided to give the west a shot. SUCCESS at last. Dharawal friends had told me that they used to light fires on the cliffs of Sydney and swing bullroarers to communicate with the whales when they migrated both north and sou...

We headed out to the Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse for a guided tour at 9.20. Its around 20 minutes through more heavily timbered country than I had expected. My expectations of what country will look like is almost always toatally wrong, and so it was this time. I had expected coastal scrub and rocky landscape. No, much more like the country described by Bill Gammage: "land that looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abu...

On Monday (23rd), we fly direct to Busselton for a three week driving holiday taking in Margaret River, the south coast to Esperance, Coolgardie and across the south west back to Busselton. We will be visiting three cousins along the way, sampling a wine or two, visiting "Carbine", my Great-grandfathers goldmine, and hopefully seeing lots of whales. Whales do have a habbit of diving out of sight whenever I come on the scene, so I might have to hide and have Ches...

We arrived in Weymouth in time for a brilliant sunset. The photo is from our bedroom window. Drew drove down from Southampton after work, arriving around 8.30, so it was a late dinner. You don't need to know about my hunting and gathering in the dark and consequent misadventure at the Lidle inconvenience store. It's the kind of store that you might have seen in a British TV show where an armed robbery takes place, and an innocent customer rounds the shelves to...