We jounced along a half kilometer or so, feeling the road deteriorate as we went, unsure whether we were supposed to be there or should turn back. A few 4WD vehicles passed by, their drivers…
Planning a recent trip of 3800 kilometers - from Darwin in the Northern Territory to Geikie Gorge in Western Australia and back - we realized that would mean a lot of one night stops. Mostly…
Visitors come to Kakadu mainly for the natural wonders of the area, a World Heritage designated region. Once here in the north central part of Australia at the "top end" of the Northern Territories, they…
In this part, you can find out about a beach made completely of small cockle shells and what it’s like to swim with grinning, four-meter wide manta rays. Part 1 reveals what we call Western…
In this part, you can read about what we call Western Australia’s “Grand Ocean Road,” with its colorful sandstone bluffs, and discover the amazing stromatolites, without whom this blog – or anything else for that…
(I have already recorded the other adventures we had in the back country of Karijini. You may be pleased to read of these herewith. - JHW) Far from our own country, Holmes and I had…
You need a leap of faith to travel all the way to Karijini National Park, where beautiful river gorges are the most prominent features. But thanks to a friend’s advice, we took that leap and…
It seemed surreal, lying there about 10 meters off the road, legs pointing toward the sky. A large bull, clearly dead a while. Nor was that the only one we saw, dead or alive, during…
You might think that finding an animal called a whale shark so you could swim alongside it would be relatively easy. It’s big, right? In reality, doing this can seem more like a military operation.…
About an hour’s drive north of Perth, you escape the sprawling northern limit of its farthest suburbs, and begin to travel through the outback, a desert of scattered trees and bushes, occasionally interrupted by mounds…