Category Archives: Mr F

The Kimberley – Part 2 Our new bumper sticker says it – “we survived the Gibb River Road!”.   A better one would read “we made it across the Durack!”  The Durack  seemed to be the topic of conversation at every … Continue reading →

Overnighted in Broome before driving on the worst 90km of road we have seen yet up to Cape Leveque, about as remote as we can get on the coast of WA.  A definite highlight was spear-making with a Bardi elder … Continue reading →

In the last two weeks we have continued northwards, well beyond Kalbarri.  First we visited Shark Bay and got almost as far west on the mainland as it is possible to get instead driving up onto Cape Peron after Ben … Continue reading →

Trailer repaired, bit of a hole in the budget and a few days’ delayed but back in the game.  We drove through the Pinnacles Desert yesterday.  These calcite formations are spectacular, though somewhat eerie in such a barren, almost moonscape … Continue reading →

Many place names in the region end in “up” from the local indigenous languages meaning “place of”.  We spent four days in a timber town called Manjimup. This place was good for collecting Manjim berries apparently.  There are fantastically ancient … Continue reading →

This is day 11 of our epic journey and it is time to check-in – my, how time has flown! We are currently camped at Duke of Orleans Bay 70km east of Esperance in Western Australia. We have done and … Continue reading →

Starting from the most heavily populated town in the Southern Highlands (the first point to plot on your map – look for place references in each of my blogs to add to your outline map) I will be driving south and … Continue reading →