To get to Monkey Mia, you needed to stop in Denham to pick up your National Park pass and any last minute groceries if you had booked a campsite. We had a hotel room so we planned for meals in the only 2 restaurants there. Emus roamed around the town without any worries of cars or people! These towns were equipped with wind power. Aussies are serious when it comes to camping. Heaps of gear, outdoor cooking and cleaning areas, large tents to sleep in / hang...

To get from town to town in WA, there was a whole lot of road with not much to see. We were very grateful for all the wildlife that we did see. The locals warned us that they would be rare. (We didn't know what this strange anteater-like thing was though.) Shark Bay is one of only two places in the world where living marine stromatolites exist. These living fossils contain microbes unchanged from those found 3.5 billion years ago - the earliest still existing ...