Day 50 - Karijini National Park (Dales Campground) to Cape Range National Park (Tulki Beach Campground) - 728km/10.5hrs Today marks 7 weeks on the road and we have driven 11,526 kilometres! We have a huge driving day today so we were up at 4:30am and on the road by 5am. Around 5:30am we saw lots of miners heading to work. There were about 15 cars and buses and it was like it was peak hour! We enjoyed watching the sunrise behind us and the mountains were all g...

Day 18 - Alice Springs Unfortunately I accidentally deleted today’s post so I’m having to try to remember. We left the caravan park around 9:30am for a day trip to the West MacDonnell Ranges. Our first stop was Simpson’s Gap and what a beautiful place. We walked down to the water via the dry creek bed. It would look so different filled with water. The kids had fun climbing the trees. Next stop was Ellery Creek Big Hole. Again another beautiful spot an...

Day 49 - Karijini National Park Today we had a very lazy morning and then went to Dales Gorge. We first walked to Fortescue Falls lookout then we continued the steep descent to Fortescue Falls which were very pretty. We then continued upstream along the gorge floor to Fern Pool. This is a beautiful natural pool with very clear water and the small fish congregate around the ladder, which Josh loves. Rog and the kids both had a swim but I decided to wait till aft...

30/8 Day 48 - Albert Tognolini Rest Area to Karijini National Park (73km/1hr) We enjoyed watching the sunrise, Rog did some work on the car and the kids went and chatted to the French backpackers. We left the rest area at 9:30am for our short drive to Karijini National Park which is the 2nd largest park in WA. We went to the visitor information centre to purchase our 4 week national park pass and then we checked into our campsite at Dales Campground (we are ...

Day 47 - Eighty Mile Beach to Albert Tognolini Lookout Rest Area (525kms/7hrs) We were up early so the boys could go fishing before check out. The beach was so different as it was a high tide of 7.12m. There were lots of people on the beach with their 4WD and beach buggy’s all fishing. Rog caught a big fish pretty much straight away but we didn’t know what it was so we released it. We later found out it was a blue salmon. He then caught a tiny fish and anot...