Day 68. Early on the road south today towards port city of Geraldton. Farewell to Ross and Robyn. Picked up some tiger prawns at the Denham fish factory on the way out. The distant views of Shark Bay and Denham Sound brilliant in the early morning light and the carpet of wildflowers so vivid as we travelled further south. Stopped at Overland Roadhouse for morning tea and historic village of Northampton for lunch in the van as a thunderstorm burst overhead. We ha...

Day 67. Today we are going on a day trip with Ross and Robyn up to the tip of Cape Peron in the Francois Peron National Park. First stop the old sheep station preserved in the Peron Heritage Precinct, historic old shearing sheds and buildings but the hot natural tub too hot at 40 degrees. Let the tyre pressures down to the recommended 20psi and then we were sliding and bouncing along the soft sandy track for the next 45km over the scrub covered giant red sandhil...

Day 66. Up early for the short drive across the Peron Peninsular to village of Monkey Mia on tranquil blue Shark Bay. The dolphins were being fed by the National Parks rangers and we took our place at the water's edge. Soon 5 Indo-Pacific bottle nose dolphins came in very close to feed. Absolutely wonderful as they cruised along the shore. It was then time for a big breakfast at the nearby Dolphin Resort on the deck overlooking the beautiful bay and anchored boa...

Day 65. After light rain overnight in Carnarvon, a day of amazing wildflowers as we headed south towards world heritage listed Shark Bay and the small coastal village of Denham. After lunch at Overlander Roadhouse on the North West Coastal Highway, we turned north again onto the bitumen Shark Bay Road. The fields of yellow, blue and pink wildflowers became even more spectacular as the road crossed over huge scrubby sandhill after sandhill. Our first view of the ...

Day 64. Today we are doing a day trip north to Quobba Station and the Blowholes with Ross and Robyn. Arrived late morning just before the high tide at the Blowholes which were blowing full force with the incoming swell, such a noise, one rising over 20 metres. Beautiful rugged coastline with sharp brown coral cliffs as far as we could see up the coast. It was along this coast that German sailors came ashore in their lifeboats from the sinking battleship 'Kormora...