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 [...]
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$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, [...]
Monkey Mia
Posted by Trav on March 1, 1999
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The first feeding of the dolphins was at 8:00am, so we wandered down to the beach at 7:45am, to see if there was anything happening yet. There were five dolphins already in the shallows and, according to another person there, had been there since before 7:00am, just splashing around. Looking at the number of people [...]
People who love animals a little too much
Posted by Trav on March 1, 1999
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As far as we could get from a major centre, lazing on the beach in a World Heritage area. Surely we could not find a SPOTD here. Think again. Invariably we found our Stupid Person Of The Day, and this one was streets ahead of the rest of the contenders. (Note to Americans: you must [...]