Time Away: 12 weeks + 3 days Total Distance Travelled: 17,703km Total Cost of Petrol: $3,688.13 (average $2.21/L) Places Visited: – 2 states (WA, SA) & 1 Territory (NT) – 1 island (Kangaroo Island) – 37 different accommodation sites Misfortunes: – 2 x stitches (Ali filleting her thumb) – 2 x food poisoning (both boys,…

Home Sweet Home!!! Yesterday morning we packed up for the final time and hit the road. Everyone was so eager to get home that we barely stopped on our way 😀 We left Kalbarri just after 8:30am, admired Pink Lake on the way past Port Gregory then kept on trucking all the way to Geraldton.…

Today is “R” & “L”‘s 12th birthday and part of the deal today is that it’s “yes” day which means “G” and “A” have to say “yes” to everything that is asked of them (within reason of course!!). The first request came last night when they asked to have a sleep in …. no problems…

This morning we headed a short way down the road to Blue Holes which is meant to be an excellent snorkeling spot and I think in the right weather it would be, but today, it was a perfect spot for walking and playing on the beach instead. We spent the entire morning enjoying Blue Holes…

This morning we set off to watch the pelican feeding on the foreshore. There were a billion people there!!!! Pelicans were cute though 🙂 We then headed off to do the Coastal Cliffs south of Kalbarri where we were treated to watching heaps of whales all along the coastline along with a large pod of…

This morning we had a rather lazy start to the day with everyone enjoying a bit of a sleep in. Once everyone had kicked themselves into gear, we headed out to the National Park to visit the Skywalk, Nature’s Window and Z-Bend Lookout. All were stunning sights though the number of people visiting them was…

One of the “quirks” about our accommodation in Denham was a 9am checkout otherwise a $50 fee would be charged to your credit card, hence we were up and out of there by 8:30am! Turns out we weren’t the only ones keen to exit well before the 9am timeframe as most others that were staying…

“A” got everyone up bright and early today so we could head to Monkey Mia for the Dolphin Experience. Let’s just say, I think everyone would’ve preferred the sleep in as the dolphin experience was quite underwhelming and far different to how it was when “G” and “A” were kids. These days, you are only…

Today we woke with birthday wishes for ‘A’. It was yet another cool morning with the heater being turned on to warm up the cabin. We had breakfast, packed and were on the road by 09:30. We have mastered the pack-up and car-packing now to military precision. We headed south, had a few trucks and…

What an absolutely freezing night, something we haven’t been used to over the past few months! It was so cold in fact that “G” got up in the middle of the night to put an extra blanket on the bed and “A” even had socks and a jumper on in bed! Thankfully, the boys doona’s…