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  • Julie Sharpe
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West Trip

Coffs to Melbourne, South Coast of Vic, SA & WA. Up through West Coast WA, then across the Kimberley. Read more
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    Kalbarri

    May 26, 2025 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 18 °C

    Another travel day as we head north to Denman , Monkey Mia etc.
    Ended up at Kalbarri almost by mistake, but looks a nice place on the coast & Murchison River.
    Managed to sniff out the local Brewery called Finlays which was a great little place with good beer and excellent food.
    Video of fire is from last night, but it's worth it for the quality of wood!    Read more

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    Denham-Shark Bay

    May 27–31, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    Travelled up to Denham-Shark Bay for a 4 night stay. With Monkey Mia just up the road and a host of tracks in the national park, this looks to be a very promising place. Sunset did not let us down, the photos don't really do it justice.Read more

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    Skipjack point - Francois Peron NP

    May 28, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    Left Denham town for Eagle Bluff & Cape Peron in the Francois Peron NP.
    Uneventful trip until we hit the 58km of 4wd track. Trev and the Toyota handled it beautifully, particularly after we aired down to 16 psi. Made a massive difference.
    Got a good snap of a shark in the bay.
    Tomorrow is meant to be a massive rain day, according to the locals. (20mm 🤣)
    Monkey Mia after that...    Read more

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    Monkey Mia

    May 30, 2025 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 22 °C

    Predicted rains have come mainly at night, but it's been threatening all day. We went on a catamaran out of Monkey Mia and managed to see dolphins, turtles and dugong, along with heaps of birds.
    Yesterday we went to the ocean aquarium which was pretty good with all the varieties of fish, sea snake's, stone fish, but their shark feeding was seriously piss weak world.
    Monkey mia is a bit commercial now, but well worth seeing.
    Off to Gladstone Bay tomorrow    Read more

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    Gladstone Bay

    May 31–Jun 2, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    Quick trip up from Denham to Gladston bay camp. This is a no frills, self sufficient camp where you pick your own spot for $10 pp per night. So we did!
    A lovely beach outlook.
    We'll spend a couple of days here, maybe do some fishing.
    Stopped off at She'll beach on the way through, a beach made completely of small cockle shells. Who'd a thought?    Read more

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    Quobba Station

    Jun 2–4, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    A wet and muddy drive into Quobba Station.
    Did a shop at Canarvon, glad we elected to move on through to our destination here for the next two nights.
    An alcohol yfree night (first of the trip for me!)
    May not even have a fire as the rain looks to be persisting down....    Read more

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    Quobba Station day 2

    June 3, 2025 in Australia ⋅ 🌧 23 °C

    Didn't get more than a couple of hous sleep last night as the wind came up suddenly. I'd left the awning up and not only did it rock the van, I fully expected the awning to fly off at any second. Got a lull in the wind at about 7.30 am and whipped it down. Also had a fair bit of rain to make the tracks that bit harder and dirtier as we explored. We aired down the cars (and vans) to 28psi for the corrugations. Quobba blow holes and a couple of beaches on a wet and windy day. Some of the storm waves here are awesome!
    Found the best blowhole at another beach completely!! (First video)    Read more

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    Coral Bay

    Jun 4–7, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

    Left Quobba Station and travelled up to Coral Bay, about 300km.
    Aftrr the rain of the last few says, there was water over the Quobba road, and the main highway. Video is of the highway water.
    We'll be in Coral bay for yhe next 3 nights.Read more

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    Coral bay day 1

    Jun 5–8, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    Short note as we are at the pub ( surprise!)
    Fantastic snorkling today.
    No pics but will do better tommorrow.

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    Coral Bay day 2

    June 6, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    More snorkling today, best I've ever seen.
    Turtles, black tipped reef sharks, 1,000,000 varieties of fish of all sizes, sea slugs, corals and some whales off in the distance, past the reef.
    I'll be sorry to leave, but Exmouth and the Cape range National Park calls..
    Tried to take some pics under water with the phone but didn't really work out.
    Also, Happy Birthday to Julie🎂🎉🎁🎈🕯🥳🎊    Read more

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    Exmouth

    June 7, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    Shut ya Exmouth, we're here!
    Straight to the car/truck wash to clean up after our Quobba Station adventure.
    Set up and had a quick look around Exmouth and found ourselves at the Whakebone brewery and distillery. Very nice beer 🍺
    Back home for somehamburghers on the bbq    Read more

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    Exmouth & Cape Range NP

    June 8, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    Took a drive down to Cape Range National Park.
    Drove past the Department of Defence communications centre with all their dishes, and antennas sticking everywhere.
    Took the view from the lighthouse and old WW2 radar station, then moved down to turquoise bay for a bit of snorkelling .
    Back to Exmouth, checked out the local aquarium, which was pretty good. Then over to the Whalebone brewery for another beer, was pretty good!    Read more

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    Exmouth & Lakeside

    Jun 9–12, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    Spent today, shopping and preparing for an inland trip over the next couple of weeks.
    Drove down to the cape range national park and a snorkelling spot called Lakeside, which was fantastic again.
    Ended up at whalebone brewery again and then followed that up with a visit to Froth Brewery and fish and chips for tea.
    Another excellent day.    Read more

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    Karijini free camp

    June 11, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    Drive day today as we left our free camp and drove up through Tom Price and onto Karijini National Park.
    The desert and ranges provide a pretty stark contrast to the coastal driving.
    Another free camp here tonight, then into Karijini NP for 2 nights
    Full moon and a cooler evening    Read more

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    Karijini & Hammersly Gorge

    June 12, 2025 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 22 °C

    Moved into the NP site at Karijini. The free camp yesterday was better!
    Went out to Hammersly Gorge and hiked to the rock pool, and lookout.
    Not very far, but very steep!
    More gorges to be seen tomorrow...Read more

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    Karijini Gorges

    June 13, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Gorged ourselves on gorges today, hitting Dale's, Joffre and Knox Gorges.
    The best was Dale's, with 6.8km of class 4 & 5 hiking through cliffs, waterholes and almost temperate forest .
    Just settling down with a lovely Coopers Session Ale to celebrate the day.
    Off to Port Hedland tomorrow...    Read more

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    Port Hedland

    Jun 14–16, 2025 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 23 °C

    Drive up from Karijini NP to Port Hedland. A lot of road trains ( 4 dogs and 200 tones), but the UHF radio coms with the drivers made for easy passing. Massive road trains carrying iron ore, and plenty of them!
    Staying in the free camp at Port Hedland Turf club for 2 nights, basic but free!
    Restock and a GLAR Port Hedland tomorrow.    Read more

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    Port Hedland

    June 15, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    Had a good look around the beach and Port here. It was ok.
    Got a bargain on some recovery tracks at the Emporium here. It's a great shop!
    Went to a Kangaroo rescue centre that was pretty cool.
    Of to 80 mile beach tomorrow!Read more

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    Eighty Mile beach

    Jun 16–20, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    Left Port Hedland today for the quick 250km trip through Pardoo and into eighty mile beach .
    A nice spot and hopefully some good fishing over the next few days.

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    Eighty mile beach

    June 18, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    Two of these Threadfin Salmon done in Coconut Thai Sauce for tea, Beautiful!
    Trevor & I caught one each, then a herd of massive dolphins chased them off..🐬🐬🐬

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    Broome arrival

    June 20, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

    Arrived at Broome and set up for the week. Plenty of washing done and a good clean up. Not many pics but should have some good ones in the next week.

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    Broome day 2

    June 22, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    Today was Broome market day, a look at Cable beach, some shopping to restock, a visit to Bunnings for a couple of maintenance jobs, and a quick beer at the Spinifex Brewery. Finished off with a BBQ dinner and the footy.Read more

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    Broome Day 3

    June 22, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    Had a good look around Gantheaume Point & Beach, as well as the lighthouse. A couple of massive Osprey nests in the lighthouse infrastructure. Town beach and the Broome jetty

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