Shortly after leaving the Olga's the road turned into more of a sand trap, quite wide, but with numerous sand drifts to negotiate. While it was not a problem for the Pajero it did slow us down a bit, so arrived later at Lasseters Cave than planned. We parked and walked the short distance to the cave, and were impressed by the relative beauty of the spot, quite in contrast to the isolation and dramas of the Lasseter story. If my memory serves me correctly Las...

Heather's family in South Australia were having a family function for Heather's parents and wanted our presence, sounds like a good excuse for another adventure. We decided we would go in the Pajero 4WD and pretty much drive straight to the function over the Nullarbor with few stops, as we had covered this before, but then come back slowly through central Australia, taking in Uluru (Ayres Rock).So we headed off for Kalgoorlie for our first nights stop via...

We set off from Coral Bay quite early as our plan was to make it to Mt Augustus for sunset. We had phoned ahead and booked into accommodation in the Mt Augustus resort and also made a reservation for the evening meal.Our first stop was at the Minilya river to check out the very original tractor which appears to have been steam driven. Then it was off south again until just short of Carnarvon where we turned off to Gascoyne Junction, where we took a quick drive ar...

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 ...

Given the flight was early, and so we didn't have to rush, we decided to get the holiday off to big start and booked into the Burswood for the night. As it turns out we met people we knew, and all had a meal together, small world stuff.