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…
Most people don’t get far afield from the palm-fringed tropical beaches of north Queensland or the underwater charms of the Great Barrier Reef. Many do find their way, at least, to tourist-friendly Kuranda, a rainforest…
A lament on not seeing a cassowary during our trip to Daintree National Park and Mossman Gorge. Click the link to read the prose version. They tell you to be alert and wary, When dining…
In the 18th century the renowned Australian explorer, Captain James Cook, ran aground on the now equally renowned Great Barrier Reef. His ship was near a peninsula jutting from the coast of Queensland north of…
We stood on the shore and looked around the inviting bay of Fitzroy Island, a 45 minute ride from Cairns off the coast of Queensland and our home for three days. Slight waves scratched the…