Another 15 hours overnight on a Greyhound later, we arrived in Perth, our final stop in Western Australia. We headed straight to the hostel that we'd booked and then had a quick walk into town to get our bearings before catching up on some much needed sleep. The next day we spent acquainting ourselves with the city, taking in the shopping centre, the esplanade, the Bell Tower, Harbourtown and making the most of the free transport. Perth is great in that anywhere ...

Our stay in Broome had been slightly longer than anticipated due to the cyclone and bush fires further down the coast, which meant that we had to drop one of our remaining two stops prior to Perth, Coral Bay or Geraldton. We decided that we'd head to Coral Bay and then skip Geraldton and head straight to Perth from there. Boy are we glad we made that decision. Coral Bay was absolutely beautiful! We arrived just after midnight and more or less fell straight...

13 hours on an overnight Greyhound bus later and we had left Kununurra and arrived in Broome. We'd booked accommodation in the Cable Beach area of Broome so they kindly picked us up from the city, along with a new friend we made on the bus, a French guy called Pierre. Exhausted after our long overnight journey, we spent the day familiarising ourselves with the backpackers and catching up on some sleep. Luckily for us, Wednesday night at Cable Beach Backpackers is...

Another early start for the 7am bus from Darwin to Kununurra. We were leaving the Northern Territory and heading for Western Australia. 10 hours later, we arrived in the small town of Kununurra. We didn't really know much about Kununurra, other than what the Lonley Planet told us. We knew it was going to be small but didn't really realise how small!! We were staying at the YHA, who picked us up from the bus stop and took us back to the backpackers. We checked i...

So we bid farewell to Melbourne and boarded our flight which would take us up to Darwin in the Northern Territory. It may sound like a bit of a long winded way round to do it but it was cheaper for us to fly up to Darwin and then head south down the west coast, than it was to get to Perth and head up the west coast. After a 4 1/2 hour flight that seemed to whizz by despite all the turbulence and ten thousand children on board, we arrived in Darwin in the middle...