ExplorOz - David & Michelle

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Southern Coastline Day 177 - Rockingham to Esperance

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DAY 177 Saturday 16th January 1999 After going to all the fuss of getting to this great spot, we didn't rush to leave. We headed back out the same sandy track,...

Created: 16 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 5926

Southern Coastline Day 176 - Rockingham to Esperance

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David sensed that I was a little miffed at not being able to complete the tree climb yesterday and so we drove to another climbing tree in the Pemberton region to have another shot....

Created: 15 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 5814

Southern Coastline Day 175 - Rockingham to Esperance

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Lake Jasper is rather unique and apparently attracts ski boats, windsurfers and fishermen (although we couldn't imagine how they'd get the boats in these tracks)....

Created: 14 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 5977

Southern Coastline Day 174 - Rockingham to Esperance

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We pulled out the next day and continued along more narrow, sandy tracks. We were starting to think that not many people would be as adventurous as we by pulling a trailer through this kind of ...

Created: 13 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 6145

Southern Coastline Day 173 - Rockingham to Esperance

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With no wind in sight we felt we'd done all their was to do in Augusta and started our trek EAST for the first time this trip. My 4WD book identified a way through to Pemberton through the ...

Created: 12 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 7150

Southern Coastline Day 172 - Rockingham to Esperance

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The weather is still calm and ideallic so we took a leisurely walk along the beachfront and watched the fisherman fish for tiny herring and other baitfish....

Created: 11 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 5758

Southern Coastline Day 171 - Rockingham to Esperance

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We left Yungarra Estate this morning not knowing quite how far we'd go. We took our time to pull off the highway to visit all the beaches and bays along the coastline down to Augusta (Cape Leuwin),...

Created: 10 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 5643

Southern Coastline Day 170 - Rockingham to Esperance

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Today we planned to visit as many wineries as we could and purchase a few wines from the good ones we'd found so far. We also dropped in to a wood carver's gallery who had pieces in Glen's house ...

Created: 09 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 5277

Southern Coastline Day 169 - Rockingham to Esperance

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We didn't have much of an idea where we'd end up today but our first stop was the Yungarra Estate winery, one of the first of the Margaret River area wineries after leaving Dunsborough....

Created: 08 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 5269

Southern Coastline Day 168 - Rockingham to Esperance

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Today's the day we dived the Swan - a purpose sank diving wreck of a Navy frigate in 30m of water off Cape Naturaliste in Geographe Bay. It was a big day starting at 7.30am returning at 1.30pm....

Created: 07 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 5185

Southern Coastline Day 167 - Rockingham to Esperance

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It took us 3 hours to get organised this morning for diving but when we were ready it was a beautiful calm day down at the Busselton Jetty. The jetty is 2 kms long and no vehicle access is allowed....

Created: 06 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 5084

Southern Coastline Day 166 - Rockingham to Esperance

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We said goodbye to our friends Ninka and Fife and took 3 hours to pack up this morning - our longest on record so far! I think it’s the first time we've had so much out of the trailer and so much ...

Created: 05 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 5200

Southern Coastline Day 165 - Perth to Rockingham

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We helped Ninka and Fife purchase snorkel and mask sets this morning and then went in search of a calm place to go snorkelling. We took them to Pt Peron but there was too much weed and the wind ...

Created: 04 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 4982

Southern Coastline Day 164 - Perth to Rockingham

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We've been wanting to go to Rottnest Island but with the wind being so strong conditions are not favourable for the trip over on the ferry....

Created: 03 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 5005

Southern Coastline Day 163 - Perth to Rockingham

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After yesterday's catapault we went to the Safety Bay windsufing shop (Seabreeze) and bought David a set of harness lines that were his length. He had been using a spare set of mine,...

Created: 02 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 4918

Southern Coastline Day 162 - Perth to Rockingham

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NEW YEAR'S DAY After a breakfast of berroca and strawberries we went to Safety Bay to windsurf. We were the first sailors to arrive but the wind was definitely blowing hard....

Created: 01 Jan 1999 01:00 Views: 5008

Southern Coastline Day 161 - Perth to Rockingham

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The wind blew all through the night and kept us awake with visions of being able to go windsurfing in the morning. Sure enough, at 10am when we made it to Safety Bay we found at least 30 people ...

Created: 31 Dec 1998 01:00 Views: 6200

Southern Coastline Day 160 - Perth to Rockingham

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We couldn't believe the weather had turned calm this morning. For the last few days we've been unable to sail and its been blowing a gale and now we're finally set up and there isn't even a puff ...

Created: 30 Dec 1998 01:00 Views: 5217

Southern Coastline Day 159 - Perth to Rockingham

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We decided it was time to leave Neville, Katrina and Sue's house today and to set up at a caravan park, nearer to the water, with the aim of windsurfing for a few days....

Created: 29 Dec 1998 01:00 Views: 5463

West Coast Day 158 - Kalbarri to Perth

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David and I went looking at second-hand boards in one of Perth's biggest windsurfing shops today. We found the perfect board,a second-hand F2 Xantos (last year's top model board) but it is a ...

Created: 26 Dec 1998 01:00 Views: 5311

West Coast Day 157 - Kalbarri to Perth

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There were three couples who woke up in the house on Xmas morning so it was fun watching everyone open their pressies (except for us). I had a couple of little things for Sue, Nev,...

Created: 25 Dec 1998 01:00 Views: 5498

West Coast Day 156 - Kalbarri to Perth

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Xmas Eve - we left Cervantes this morning after saying very fond farewells to Dave and Dee and the other windsurfers we met during the week....

Created: 24 Dec 1998 01:00 Views: 5155

West Coast Day 154 - Kalbarri to Perth

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Dave is a showy sailor and I took some video of him performing duck gybes and tacks. He's trying to help me with my gybes too so we watch the video at nights to see what we're doing right or wrong....

Created: 23 Dec 1998 01:00 Views: 4771

West Coast Day 153 - Kalbarri to Perth

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We all have callusous on our hands but the wind is so consistent that we can't help ourselves - we have to go out. There's a good group of sailors around now and the social atmostphere is ...

Created: 22 Dec 1998 01:00 Views: 5011

West Coast Day 152 - Kalbarri to Perth

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The wind picked up so much today that most of us were nearly blown out of the water. We've been the first to arrive each day so that David gets a chance before the wind becomes too strong....

Created: 21 Dec 1998 01:00 Views: 4670

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