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West Coast Mission: Day 6

The Shark Bay area is about 130km up a peninsula that has loads of side roads where you can pull over and marvel at... well... pretty stuff. Loody had heard about Hamelin Pool, the first turn off after the highway so we dutifully drove down and checked it out. It's the home of the stromatolites...

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Koala Bear on May 7, 2007 from Monkey Mia, Australia

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West Coast Mission: Day 5

After we'd kept the entire camp up all night wailing along to London Underground and singing Irish songs we thought we should make a quick exit the next day before we got lynched, especially as everyone would be up early on account of the hoards of galahs sat on the telephone wires over the road...

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Koala Bear on May 6, 2007 from Kalbarri, Australia

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Hervey Bay and Fraser Island

Fraser Island is the Largest Sand Island in the world. Which means there are no man-made roads only sand tracks, hence riding only on 4 wheeled drives. We headed to the Central Station and went for a nice 2km walk through Pile Valley. This is where they have rainforests - the only one to grow...

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James & Tracey on May 6, 2007 from Torquay, Australia

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On the way

We have just arrived in West Wyalong where we will camp for the night. We have travelled to Jerrilderie where there is a very strong prescence of Ned Kelly. We walked the streets of Jerilderie and admired the history notes at each point where Ned had been. This included the famous 'Jerilderie...

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michelle62 on May 6, 2007 from West Wyalong, Australia

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West Coast Mission: Day 4

It is compulsory whilst doing the West Coast to visit Kalbarri National Park, failure to do so will result in being mocked and ridiculed by your peers and people will point and laugh at you in the street so we duly pulled off the highway and followed the loop that runs through the town of...

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Koala Bear on May 5, 2007 from Kalbarri, Australia

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West Coast Mission: Day 3

On account of the fact we'd been free camping since Perth we decided to spend tonight in Geraldton at a pay camp with all kinds of exciting things like flushing toilets and showers. Ashley, my barman, is from Geraldton and Swoop has something to do with the place an all. Both had told me not to...

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Koala Bear on May 4, 2007 from Geraldton, Australia

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We are on our way

Well we have eventually hit the road after lots of hard work, blood, sweat and even tears. We certainly underestimated the amount of time in getting ready and should have allowed 3 months. We met Brynley and Jacinta for a fashionably late lunch yesterday and from there picked up our truck and...

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michelle62 on May 4, 2007 from Echuca, Australia

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On the way

We are now at the Ute Capital of Australia and plan to stay here for two nights. We camped last night in a Caravan park on the edge of the Edward River and we were the only vehicle in our grassed area overlooking the River. The mossies were bad but fortunately we had our trusty fly screens...

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michelle62 on May 4, 2007 from Deniliquin, Australia

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West Coast Mission: Day 2

Lancelin; Has some fucking big piles of sand. There was only one thing for it, fork out $10 for a board so we could spend two hours sliding down them. Or in my case, sitting halfway down the dune making that noise you only make when you accidently bang your tail bone. I couldn't get past...

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Koala Bear on May 3, 2007 from Cervantes, Australia

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West Coast Mission: Day 1

It felt weird leaving things the way they were with Swoop, we didn't exctly part on the best of terms for reasons I still haven't quite worked out and she was off to Newman to start her new job on the mines the same day we were due to head up the West Coast. I sort of felt like I should have...

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Koala Bear on May 2, 2007 from Lancelin, Australia

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