Well, where to start?! We had been planning for this even before we left home so it was always going to be a highlight of our trip. We had also seen the build-up to the Games as we travelled through Queensland last year and visited the giant surfboards, which acted as countdown timers in all the major cities. On the Gold Coast itself, we had witnessed the stadiums being built or converted, the roads being improved in readiness for the Games lanes and the runnin...

Since we have crossed the Nullarbor we have visited some lovely places in Western Australia (WA) and I shall do a quick rundown on them. However, we have just had the most amazing, unexpected day, in the middle of nowhere, and so this blog is actually going to focus mainly on that, because it is sometimes the most unexpected, unplanned days that turn out to be the best! First stop after the Nullarbor was Esperance, where we chilled for a few days and didn't dr...

Well, I guess this was the big bit for us. The Nullarbor Plain is one part of the flat, arid, almost treeless area, that connects Southern Australia with Western Australia but somehow 'Crossing the Nullarbor' now refers to crossing the whole expanse from Ceduna in the east to Norseman in the west - a distance of 1202km, 747miles or 12 hours and 18 mins of continuous driving at 100km/hr (the speed limit for trucks and large vehicles such as ours)! The name comes f...

OMG, Bob and I have just made right idiots of ourselves. We went back to a shop where we thought we had seen a rack of shorts outside, but it turned out that this shop was actually in the last town we visited and not this one!! In our defence all these small seaside towns on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula tend to have one main street leading down to a foreshore and a jetty, with some smaller streets off to the side, but it was the look on the girl's face ...

The question now was do we head even further inland or return to the coast? For once we were sensible. We had been wary of going inland during the height of the Oz summer, as temperatures had been rising inland to 45 degrees in some parts but, having checked, and discovered the highest we could expect would be about 35 degrees, we decided to take it on. I have been following several Facebook groups on the best things to see and do, where to camp etc and several...