Broome is the so called back packer hub and what seems to me to be the largest town/city we've been to since leaving Perth. It's full of campervans and hippie types. Cable beach at Broome is nice really wide and stretches for ages, camels wander up and down (surreal) we enjoyed the beach and also the appearance of shops again and a bit more life!! There was a much stronger aboriginal presence here and not in a particularly good way. I had been told that the ab...

It was an all day drive to get from Exmouth to Tom Price which is the town before Karrijini national park. We had quite a good run until 20km outside Tom Price. We had decided to take the unsealed road to Tom Price as it was a lot shorter, it may have been shorter but it was definitely longer as our back tire burst and was completely annihilated, Rog took some pics I'll have to hassle himfor them. Spare tire on and we set off again, 10 minutes later Hayley and Lu...

Exmouth is the other place renowned for great whale shark spotting. But I'm afraid it was the same story, all a bit too much for the pockets to take. Exmouth is a national park so we stayed there for a few nights. The snorkeling here was better than Coral Bay as you could use the current to drift along parallel to the beach, the currents were quite strong but the fish were aplenty but so were the jelly fish so dodging them was interesting. We are also getting ...

Coral Bay is one of two of the best places to come to see the whale shark migration. So excited about this I'd been looking forward to it for ages and to dive again. Coral Bay is tiny, only 2 caravan sites and it's peak season now so we were lucky to get into either. All sorted Steve and I couldn't wait to get to the beach and try out our new snorkels!! The snorkeling here is pretty good, I'm not convinced as good as Thailand but still we spent hours in the wate...

It's quite annoying that with quite a few places on the West coast you have to go back down the same road to carry on North. It wouldn't be so bad if it was an hour but when you know you've got to drive 3 hrs just to get back to the highway to continue North it's quite frustrating, especially when the roads are straight and never ending, you turn a slight corner and are welcomed once again by another straight road, breach the top of a hill and yes there's another...