Western Australia – Day 6 – Whale Watching @ Augusta

The first whale-watching experience I with our Ang Mo bud had was in Gloucester in 2010 – site also of the famous disaster fictionalized in the year 2000 George Clooney The Perfect Storm – and I had a second trip

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Western Australia – Day 6 – Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse

Day 6 and we’re went south. The Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse sits at the most south-westerly point of Australia, but it’s also a little different from many of the other lighthouses we’ve visited not because of that. Rather, this one’s a

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Western Australia – Day 5 – Amaze’N Margaret River

Our itinerary for our five-day stay @ Margaret River went through a lot of revisions over the last couple of months, and it was only some advice from a private tour operator we would be going with on Day 4

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Western Australia – Day 4 – Pemberton Tram

The Beach & Forest Eco Adventure took longer than the four hours we set aside for it, and we got back to Pemberton 25 minutes past one – which left us just enough time to get a couple of packed

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Western Australia – Day 4 – Beaches and Birds

The bumpiest part of our tour of D’Entrecasteaux National Park was crossing the Yeagarup Dunes, the foliage beyond that, and finally in the initial stretches of the beaches facing the Great Southern Ocean. That was a rough 20 minute ride

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Western Australia – Day 4 – D’Entrecasteaux National Park

Right near to Warren NP is the D’Entrecasteaux National Park, a stretch that covers the 130km along the coast between Augusta and Walpole. This NP is quite varied in the type of sights it offers, and Colin’s 4WD took us

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Western Australia – Day 3 – Ancient Empire Walk @ Valley of the Giants

The walk through Ancient Empire is taken by many visitors right after the Treetop Walk: after you walk among the top-most leaves of the majestic Tingle trees, you go back to level ground to walk among them. A completely different

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Western Australia – Day 3 – Treetop Walk @ Valley of the Giants

Day 3 saw us heading to one of the key highlights of our itinerary: the Treetop and Ancient Empire walks @ Valley of the Giants. The 600m long walk goes up to 40m above ground level, and therefore at a

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