Highway One,12hr drive, so the Waif's song goes. It's apt, as there is very little else to mark your progress other than the time on the road. The NorthWest highway is the artery that keeps trucks, tourists and travellers flowing North from Perth to Broome in the winter and back again in the Summer. It's a slender highway that narrows to single lanes across the bridges that span the little dry creeks. The landscape is low Mulga scrub and spinifex as far as the ...

Its been 6 months.  It was apparent to us when we arrived in Tom Price that some money would have to be earnt.  We had $1000 in the bank, maxed out both of our credit cards and owed our Plasterer mate Dave $1500 for a job done back in Feb.  Dave, remaining true to the code of tradies which states that you must not invoice your customer when they actually have money to pay you, but must instead wait until they are flat broke, was hounding us remorselessly b...

It's astonishing how much greener the landscape around the Pilbara is in comparison to the scoured wasteland we passed through en route to Exmouth. Actual grasses flourish their seedy hats alongside the new growth of the spinifex and its easy to see how new settlers to the land believed it could provide steady grazing for stock. I did not however, remember the landscape along the road into Exmouth being so bleak. It was a red dust bowl studded with wizened tre...

Memories are made of this - for Tom the shimmer of turquoise water hiding magical coral and peachy waves, as peeling perfect as only the gentle erosion of time can make them. For me, the reality of making a dream come true, my perfect man falling in love with me in this place - sharing waves and kisses. For us both, now married 8 years, sharing New Years Eve in Exmouth with our boys, creating a new layer of memory, enriching the fabric of our lives with a new thr...

We are in the red, rugged heart of the Pilbara. Seriously heavy industry abounds and everything is massive. The trucks, the rocks on the road, the giant cranes constructing much needed workers accomodation in Karratha town centre. In Port Hedland, which is possibly the ugliest town i have ever seen, the most arresting thing was the size of the salt pile out by the Port. It was 20 kms away from us, but looked about half the size of Coolangatta Mountain. I have ...