WA Tourism had a promotional and marketing event to show off the best of WA called the extraordinary taxi ride. This involved firstly, two competitions. One was to find the perfect taxi driver to drive the length and breadth of WA and the other to find participants to be the passengers on various lengths of the journey. Tourism ventures were offered the opportunity to donate accommodation and tours, for which our employers did both. So on a beautiful, near perfe...

Our Egypt, Middle East and Malaysia Adventure is over and it is back to work. Travel renews our enthusiasm for work and life but within a short time I am sure we will be planning our next trip.

CYCLONE AND FLOODING The cyclone season had been fairly uneventful when at 9am on Wednesday 13th Feb a small tropical low off the West Kimberly coast was named as Nicholas a CAT 1 tropical cyclone. No problem mate, its a baby and a long way away. Even when at 6am on the 14th Feb, it intensified to a CAT 2 little heed was paid.However at midday on 16th Feb, off Port Hedland, Nicholas again intensified to a CAT 3 severe tropical cyclone. Now it was getting some a...

Our youngest daughter Shashana, had been bantering for some time for us to do something special with her and take a break from work. We had also been discussing for some time that the worlds largest monolith Mt Augustus was practically on our doorstep. So we decided to make a long weekend of it and include Coral Bay in our excursion.Coral Bay is a special place in its own right, one of the few places in the world where one can enjoy swimming on a coral reef from ...