The final leg of our Australian adventure has proved to be a comedy of errors with respect to our stalwart vehicle, the Beast.A new fuel filter was all she ever desired to start properly and run reliably and since we granted her one in Broome, she'd been chugging along beautifully.From Broome we headed to explore the Kimberlies in Australia's northwest.This area of the country has two seasons: wet and dry.Unfortunately for us it's still the wet and with this all ...

I'm not sure that we could have experienced a broader range of landscapes and activities and emotions in the last 10 days.After a very uneventful St. Patty's Day, we left Exmouth to explore Cape Range, renowned for its snorkeling and pristine beaches.We set up camp at Lakeside beach for two nights.It was basic to say the least with just 1 pit toilet and no water.We spent our time mostly horizontal soaking up rays and drifting over coral.Turquoise Bay, recently na...

Western Australia seems to be the kind of place where no matter how many hours you spend driving, you never seem to make proress on the giant map.3,400 km on the odometer since we bought the Beast and we're not even halfway up the coast and the roads are promised to get much worse. Since we last wrote, we've passed through Perth once more to stock up on supplies for the wild west.While in Freemantle (just outside Perth) we helped an Irishman celebrate his birth...

After a long day of flights we finally arrived in Perth, Western Australia.We were welcomed with 40°C (104°F) heat, a change of about 30°C from Tassie the same morning.After chicking into our hostel we jumped straight into our urgent task of finding a suitable car to get us the 4040kms to Darwin.The following day was spent running around in the even hotter sun viewing cars, visiting used car dealerships and generally getting more confused as we had...

If ever there was a place that the weather dictates the kind of time you'd have in a place it would definitely be Tasmania.It started out well enough when we were expecting to pick up our tiny Hyundai Getz and when they didn't have any economy cars available (as they never do) we were upgraded to our familiar Toyota Camry 2008 edition.This is important to note because it would become our home in more ways than one.After buying a $40 tent and a $8 cooler in Hobart...