Monthly Archives: May 2014

This was our day to explore the peninsula, we headed off around 9:00 and stopped at Lombadina, there was supposed to be a bakery there. It turned out that there was a baker who made a few loaves three days a … Continue reading →

Heading off to Cape Leveque, the unsealed road wasn’t too bad. The first stop was Beagle Bay to see the Church built at the Catholic mission in 1907, it was quite impressive with all the pearl shell built into the … Continue reading →

Packing up again, we are starting to get used to this. We left Barnhill and headed for Broome, the plan was to do a bit of shopping and head out to Cape Leveque but it soon became obvious that it … Continue reading →

Another beautiful day, a day to relax and catch some fish, based on my experience at 80 mile beach I figured I’d head down around 11 am and fish the last hours of the rising tide. Fortunately the little kiosk here … Continue reading →

On the move again, we packed up and headed for Barnhill Station. As we are on a tight budget and are carrying little that requires 240v power we opted for the unpowered site, it was like being put in the … Continue reading →

Armed with all the local knowledge, I went to the kiosk and invested $10.50 for a kg of mulies and $7 for a packet of prawns, high tide was scheduled for 1:30 pm, so I headed down to the beach … Continue reading →

Another beautiful day on WA’s North West Coast. It appears that all the fishing action here occurs for about 2 hours just before high tide. We went down to the beach to check out the action, it was around midday … Continue reading →

Balla Balla is quite a desolate pace so we had breakfast and headed off towards Port Headland by 7.30am. We hit Port Headland about 9am – lots of traffic coming from South Headland and lots of roadworks – they were … Continue reading →

I wished Terry a happy birthday as we packed up the trailer once more. Jenny and Peter came down to say goodbye and to tell us that there was more rain coming in the nest few days. The station manager … Continue reading →

We spent a pleasant three days on the banks of the Ashburton River as we were trapped and couldn’t get out. We met two couples, one from Sydney that have been on the road for 8 years and another couple from somewhere near Narrogin … Continue reading →