Although we’d asked the takeaway shop owner about the local tourist attractions last night when we were ordering dinner, we decided to pass on her suggestion of visiting her street with four drug dealers and two prostitutes. After a bit of reading in the official (though duller) Bunbury Tourist Bureau, we decided to drive east [...]
Category Archives: 1999 Western Australia
Which way is north?
Posted by Trav on March 3, 1999
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We’re in the south-west corner of Western Australia today. Although we’d asked the takeaway shop owner about the local tourist attractions last night when we were ordering dinner, we decided to pass on her suggestion of visiting her street with four drug dealers and two prostitutes. After a bit of reading in the official (though [...]
Monkey Mia – Geraldton
Posted by Trav on March 2, 1999
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Packed up camp this morning in very short time indeed – we are getting more and more of a routine going, so it is getting easier. Debated over whether or not to see the first dolphin feeding again, but decided it was better to keep the numbers down so that other people only seeing them [...]
$1000 per day backpacker
Posted by Trav on March 2, 1999
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Still in Western Australia. Background information from Monkey Mia a couple of days previous… Three other backpackers from Switzerland arrived late in the evening – two girls and a guy – in a very small car they’d hired from Perth. All three of them were sleeping in a small tent, so we tried to guess [...]
Compact tenting
Posted by Trav on March 2, 1999
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Fleeing the dolphin fetishist of yesterday, we headed south, spending hours in the car, and still managing to find our SPOTD as soon as we stopped for the evening. Arrived in Geraldton, and set up camp at one of the caravan parks. There were ten campsites available for use, but they were watering site #1, [...]