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Southern Coastline Day 161 - Perth to Rockingham

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The wind blew all through the night and kept us awake with visions of being able to go windsurfing in the morning. Sure enough, at 10am when we made it to Safety Bay we found at least 30 people ...

Created: 31 Dec 1998 01:00 Views: 6705

Southern Coastline Day 174 - Rockingham to Esperance

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We pulled out the next day and continued along more narrow, sandy tracks. We were starting to think that not many people would be as adventurous as we by pulling a trailer through this kind of ...

Created: 13 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 6678

Man vs Wild @ Ningaloo - Part 4

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Sunday - 12th - It rained. Cold and blustery. Never been so cold. Put on all our layers. 4 tops (2 of which were thermals) plus windstopper jacket 2 beanies a scarf and long ugh boots....

Created: 12 Jul 2015 10:00 Views: 6663

Southern Coastline Day 180 - Rockingham to Esperance

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Leaving Albany today we dropped into the dive shop to collect a Dive Log Australasia (a free publication that often publishes articles and letters we submit)....

Created: 19 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 6661

Southern Coastline Day 177 - Rockingham to Esperance

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DAY 177 Saturday 16th January 1999 After going to all the fuss of getting to this great spot, we didn't rush to leave. We headed back out the same sandy track,...

Created: 16 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 6634

ExplorOz Podcast Episode 15: Tasmania Part 2 of 4 - Exploring the East Coast

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Episode 15 of the ExplorOz Podcast: Australian Offroad Adventures and Mapping Podcast. Join us for an exciting episode of the ExplorOz Podcast,...

Created: 28 Mar 2024 04:16 Views: 6619

Cape York Day 13 - Cairns to Weipa

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(Iris & Donald) Today began another day of new adventures on our Cape York trip. We broke camp late at 11am so the morning started off slow....

Created: 05 Aug 1998 15:38 Views: 6597

Cape York Day 23 - Weipa to Seisa

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Rest day at Eliot Falls – day’s events covered by Michelle After a good night of entertainment around the campfire we had the day to ourselves to visit and swim the many rockpools and rapids ...

Created: 15 Aug 1998 16:46 Views: 6578

West Coast Day 144 - Kalbarri to Perth

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We left Cervantes at 9am and drove 17km south to the Nambung National Park to view the Pinnacles. They really were a pretty sight but it only took us about an hour to explore the desert area....

Created: 13 Dec 1998 01:00 Views: 6511

Southern Coastline Day 175 - Rockingham to Esperance

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Lake Jasper is rather unique and apparently attracts ski boats, windsurfers and fishermen (although we couldn't imagine how they'd get the boats in these tracks)....

Created: 14 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 6491

Cape York Day 31 - Seisa to Cairns

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(Day 20 TLCC Cape York Trip - Michelle Jacka & David Martin) Our trip today was to be a little adventurous with Collyn leading us along tracks he had not previously traveled....

Created: 23 Aug 1998 17:33 Views: 6490

Gulf Country Day 66 - Borroloola to Darwin

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We all slept in this morning and woke tired and sore. We packed up slowly and had to have another shower it was so hot again. We were a little disappointed with Roper Bar,...

Created: 27 Sep 1998 00:00 Views: 6470

Southern Coastline Day 181 - Rockingham to Esperance

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Before leaving the Stokes Inlet we drove out to the inlet itself which we couldn't quite see from our camp site. The inlet hasn't been opened to the sea for 9 years but due to the floods ...

Created: 20 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 6470

Cape York Day 21 - Weipa to Seisa

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Trip notes were not written by the assigned driver today who was David Darke so were compiled by Michelle (he was fined). Leaving Stones Crossing was quite exciting because the first challenge ...

Created: 13 Aug 1998 16:40 Views: 6467

West Coast Day 132 - Shark Bay

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We awoke this morning to rain - how fortunate that we were not camping! It is also very windy and quite cool. We had to don our tracksuits to venture outside. By midday,...

Created: 01 Dec 1998 01:00 Views: 6450

Cape York Day 29 - Seisa to Cairns

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(Day 18 TLCC Cape York Trip - Jan and Dave Marsh) Chili Beach was beautiful however the rubbish scattered along the beach is disappointing....

Created: 21 Aug 1998 17:29 Views: 6444

Southern Coastline Day 176 - Rockingham to Esperance

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David sensed that I was a little miffed at not being able to complete the tree climb yesterday and so we drove to another climbing tree in the Pemberton region to have another shot....

Created: 15 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 6414

Southern Coastline Day 183 - Rockingham to Esperance

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During the evening we had composed the letter that we would mail to the dive shop and copy to the Chamber of Commerce. We had a bit of banking and shopping to do in town so we printed off a few ...

Created: 22 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 6337

First Camp & Day 1

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We departed this morning after a few usual late minute issues, all of which were sorted quickly. A quick stop Repco saw us getting the last of the car spares and then off and moving at 10:30....

Created: 03 Aug 2013 22:02 Views: 6333

Kidson Track (80 Mile to Well 33)

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If you've been following our previous trip blogs you'll know that heading out on the Kidson Track was almost a spur of the moment change in our trip plan....

Created: 16 Dec 2022 18:33 Views: 6306

Southern Coastline Day 178 - Rockingham to Esperance

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We awoke to an overcast day, which was very disappointing. There was also a light 5 knot southerly blowing which didn't hold much promise of a good sailing day....

Created: 17 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 6303

Southern Coastline Day 182 - Rockingham to Esperance

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This morning we were still feeling unsatisfied with the events of yesterday's diving fiasco so we drafted the above letter to Dive Log and then went into town to find the local telecentre....

Created: 21 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 6298

Travelling time must be approaching

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Seems like the cruiser has been in car mode for so long that I almost forgot what it looks like with the seats out and gear in. So over the last weekend or so the old girl was converted back to ...

Created: 17 Jun 2013 19:16 Views: 6282

Southern Coastline Day 172 - Rockingham to Esperance

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The weather is still calm and ideallic so we took a leisurely walk along the beachfront and watched the fisherman fish for tiny herring and other baitfish....

Created: 11 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 6278

Ningaloo Dreaming

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Oh I remember this job getting the gear out and working out what works and what doesn't. What a week, we had to spend a large sum of dough on the boat - new manifold for the in board ouch....

Created: 27 Jun 2015 18:09 Views: 6222

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