Denham 24/5/15 Driving to the Shark Bay region today, basing ourselves at Denham. We have struck an early start to the tourist season, mostly caravans everywhere and most parks booked ahead. We are camped in the overflow section which is fine, out of the hum drum!! Mostly fishing here but good for those who like to scuba dive and snorkel. History lessons return- Dirk Hartog and William Dampier are prominent explorers of this region. Monkey Mia was the highlight ...

Kalbarri 20/5/15 We decided it was time to move on North to some finer weather, destination Kalbarri. Our drive continued up the Indian Ocean Drive on the Coral Coast to the National Trust village of Greenough for lunch. The scenery was quite striking along the way with many enormous white sand dunes then flattening out to flood plains of the Greenough River. The region is very susceptible to southerly winds, hence the intriguing 90 deg leaning trees. Further no...

Green Head WA. 14/5/15 The weather is taking on its seasonal change in Perth and I think we will be just ahead of some bad storms by travelling North. We were up this way camping with the boys and quite liked this little coastal village. There are lots of sandunes close to our campsite, and loads of recreational fishermen and rock lobster fishing. Mt Lesueur NP was a good introduction to some early flowering native plants, mostly grevilleas and wattles. Stockya...

Perth 12/5/15 Back to our Perth family briefly to celebrate Justin's birthday,catch up and check out the boys'progress at rugby training, restock and repack the camper before travelling north. Both boys are progressing well in their rugby matches given it is their first season playing. Plenty of tries have been scored! Photo - Ashby Banksia

Perth 16/3/15 Six days later we arrived at Justin and Bec's new address and two very excited little boys waiting to greet us. We refreshed on multi tasking as Grandparents, domestic duties, taxi service, gardener, landscaper. The resident chef always kept us happy with a selection of his signature dishes and more importantly, an espresso coffee to get us going for the day. We spent time cycling with family 22km around Lake Joondalup, taking the boys to a wonderf...