"Frida what do you want to see in Australia? What are your main interests" I messaged now that our Swedish friend had booked her flights and was definitely coming to Australia. "Nature and scenery" was her answer.We had met Frida and her friend Mia in Mongolia in 2011. We stayed together in a Ger, a traditional round family tent, on the Mongolian Steppes then travelled through Siberia on the train together. Later that year we met up again in Frida's home tow...

Travelling in January, the height of the wet season is a gamble. The sky became VERY black as we headed northwards in the late afternoon and we became acutely aware that we had now crossed into the tropics where the season is the wet. We ran into heavy rain that would dramatically stop and start and as dusk fell we found a roadside camp that luckily had a bit of a shelter, just big enough to set our tent up in. We do manage to usually, just find the right camp a...

Next stop Broome and the famed Cable Beach. Cable Beach is so named as this is where the undersea cable connecting Australia to the outside world came ashore. Cable Beach is now used for camel safaris and is popular with those wishing to take in a sundowner (a drink as the sun sets). It also happens to be a legal free (nude optional) beach. Broome has a very cosmopolitan population, which partially stems back to its pearling days which relied heavily on Japanese...