We only stopped in Geraldton because it was too far to drive from Exmouth to Perth in a day. The city’s publicity invited us to ‘take a fresh look’. We laughed at the subtext. The last time I stayed overnight in Geraldton was in 1994, with the Los Amigos Mexican Restaurant, also known as Loss-o…
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Sep
Years ago, I watched an episode of ‘Surfing the Menu’, in which they crossed the Tropic of Capricorn near Coral Bay and Exmouth, Western Australia. When I went that way on a bus tour in 2006, I asked that we stop when we got to the sign, so I could take a quick photo, but…
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Sep
The same day as I saw my first proper sunrise ever, in Exmouth, I had a last minute thought. Why not go to the other side of the cape and see the sunset? So off to a (nudist!) beach I went. I didn’t think the photos would look that good. I didn’t think I was…
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Sep
When I went to Exmouth in 2006, Pete, our suffering tour guide, said it had been a nuclear target when the US base was there. I asked, ‘If they dropped a nuclear bomb on Exmouth, how would anyone notice?’ I take my words back. When I was there in August, I loved lots about it….
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Aug
Times I’ve been to Far North Queensland: 12 Times I’ve been to the Great Barrier Reef: 0 Times I’ve been to Cairns Central Shopping Centre: 2 Times I’ve been to Coral Bay: 2 Times I’ve been to Ningaloo Reef: 2 If I were you, I’d want me to provide proof. This is from a glass-bottom…
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Aug
I feel very lucky to be on a road trip right now. We spent the first two nights in Kalbarri – enough time to see the new Skywalk. The Governor popped in to see it while we were there, but I thought it would have been a bit paparazzi-ish and not at all classy to…
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Aug
In the early nineties, I spent Easter weekends at the Separation Point Caravan Park in Geraldton, sleeping in tents and using the ablution block’s rather basic facilities. Not the most comforting way to recover from an evening at Los Amigos Mexican Restaurant, also known as Loss-o Memory. In the time since, I’ve stayed in a…
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Aug
I was wrong. Entering Chile, to visit Torres del Paine National Park, 2005. This is what I found when I got past American capitalism:
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Aug
Michael from Perth
A unique view of the strange and spectacular world through the eyes of Michael from Perth
