Australia pt. 6 - More Western Australia

After a loop of the south east of the state we drove straight back upto Perth through a huge storm of locusts then spent the night camping on a back street in the port suburb of Fremantle being kept awake by saturday night pub goers and train workmen until at 3am deciding enough was enough and driving to the beach.

around the town and had a look in one of the free naval history museums before leaving the big city and beginning theThe following morning, we had a walk 820km trek north to shark bay world heritage area for breakfast where the dolphins visit the beach each morning. We managed to get as far north as the Frenancit National Park on that afternoon just in time to see the sun go down on the eerie stone formations in the Pinacles desert. Quite a sight.

It was then a matter of spending the next couple of days g remaining 600km of driving through outback whilst setting through thetopping at some fantastic beaches, vast white sand dunes and a couple of small towns before spending one of the hottest, sweatiest nights ever, camped up at the "Overlander Roadhouse". With the hot 40 degree air full of red dust and no cold water it was pretty miserable. It was either swelter inside the van or open the windows and get bitten to death by mosquitoes. Add to that, the flies in their thousands that just would not leave us alone and the thunder of roadtrains trucking past through the night, no, it wasn't particularly pleasant.

However, the following day, we got out to the shark we spent the next few days on the beach feeding dolphins and generally lazing about. I also had a memorable evening out running in the bush and nearly stepping on a huge red kangaroo which was snoozing under a bush. It jumped upbay peninsula where starring me in the face and scarred the cr@p out of me before legging it off into the distance.

After the long drive back to Perth, which we managed to do in record time, it was then a couple of days of exploring the city, heading down to the beaches and illegally camping in various parts of town.


We also managed to watch one of englands not so good days in the Ashes series against australia at the WACA whilst getting sunburnt.

From here, we dropped off the van then headed off to the airport for adelaide.