Chasing Slow – Part 14: Glenelg River Canoe Trail
A fair few Christmas's ago, Tom (my brother) & I went canoeing down the Glenelg River over a few days in the very south-west corner of Victoria. We slowly paddled down stream through the stunning dry forest and gorges, camped at canoe only sites ...
Chasing Slow – Part 13: The Red Centre
We're on a mission! We're heading south, then south again. Our original plan was to complete a clockwise lap of the country and be back in Victoria for Christmas, but as we broke down in Fitzroy Crossing and ended up spending two months there, som...
Chasing Slow – Part 12: Northern Territory Top End
Goodbye Lake Argyle, farewell the Kimberley, see ya later Western Australia - we're crossing into the Northern Territory. We pulled out of Lake Argyle & before we knew it, we entered the NT and headed for Katherine. Spending the last four mont...
Chasing Slow – Part 11: Lake Argyle
Rain arrived and flood waters rose, the roads went under water and the way out was closed. We broke down in Fitzroy Crossing & ended up spending about two months there. The wet season was in full force near the end of our stay, and like many ...
Chasing Slow – Part 10: We broke down in Fitzroy Crossing!
We got up and left Broome at 5:00 for a long, remote drive through the Kimberley. Better to be safe than sorry, we detoured to a place called Derby for some new tyres and to get the car serviced. Feeling in fine form, off we went! 250 kms later, ...
Chasing Slow – Part 9: Entering the Kimberley through Broome
Waking up to the soaring heat in the full exposure to the sun, a body that felt like it was falling to bits and a mission to get to Broome, off we went. We started the day at Not Daz and Shaz's Stop, a free campground (..patch of sand where campin...
Chasing Slow – Part 8: Gorgeous Gorges of Karijini
It's time to head inland after spending most of the last 11,000 kms along the coast. We're heading west from from Exmouth to Tom Price, then into the Karijini National Park to go explore some most stunning, remote and oldest gorges in the country! ...
Chasing Slow – Part 7: Exmouth
"It doesn't get better than Exmouth" - Western Australian locals. Since crossing into WA and sharing our travel plans around the camp fire or over a beer at the pub, we've heard time-and-time-again that Exmouth is one of Australia's best places to...
Chasing Slow – Part 6: Perth & Heading North via Kalbarri
With the south coast complete, it's time for some sun! Winter is over and we're heading north, so it's going to be a bit of a double up on the heat coming our way. Our two main places of interest for this leg of our lap around Australia are Perth &am...
Chasing Slow – Part 5: Margaret River
The entire southern part of Western Australia is stunning and diverse. The coastline is home to turquoise coloured water with pristine sandy beaches separated by rocky cliffs with hundreds of small islands dotted across the ocean. Inland is covered b...