Beth's Oz Adventure

Finished working in Kununurra on Monday and spent Tuesday checking out some of the local attractions, including Miramar national park (lots of rock formations & flies!). Also went to the celebrity tree park where my hopes of finding trees planted by the likes of Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe & Kylie were dashed as most of the trees there were planted by various ozzie celebs unknown to us brits (with the exception of Rolf!) Final place visited in Kunnunura was the zebra rock gallery - zebra rock is approx 600 million year old stripy / patterned rock which is only found in this area of the world, so took the opportunity to purchase a selection, so adding a bag of rocks to my ever expanding collection of luggage (yes the art of travelling light still eludes me!).

Departed Kununurra Tues eve and took the overnight bus to the next stop of Broome (1000km southwest). Broome is best known as a pearling town and nearby Cable beach (one of the most spectacular in oz). Whilst I was there I did my best Lawrence of Arabia impression and travelled by camel along the beach at sunset ;-)

Left Broome Thurs am for another epic road trip, this time 1350km south west to Coral Bay. It took 18 hours and during that time we only passed through 2 towns - yes there aint much in the way of civilisation in most of western oz! Coral bay is a tiny town (popn 120) on the coast almost as far west as you can get in Oz. Main attraction is the close proximity of Ningaloo reef - found right off the beach within swimming distance so no sea sickness required! Here for a few days so off to explore soon. Seem to have escaped the unrelenting heat of the north too as today experienced a COOL BREEZE and was even able to walk outside during the middle of the day!

Rock face at Miramar national park