Exploring Ningaloo – week 2
My first full day off, I was heading out to the Park at 6am. I stopped when I arrived at the sign for Lakeside and climbed out of the car. An osprey was sitting on […]
Month: Dec 2019
Exploring Ningaloo – week 1
As I drove alone along Yardie Creek Road I took in the landscape. There were no trees, just low scrub punctuated by taller, red termite mounds. Approaching the turnoff to Cape Range National Park I […]
Road Tripping: Perth to Exmouth – Part 2
Kalbarri to Exmouth The next day was free to explore Kalbarri National Park. The park is huge, it took us a half hour drive from town to reach the first walk called Nature’s Window. Yellow […]
Small, Blue and Fast
Science in the field: Superb Fairy Wrens It was an overcast morning when we walked into Campbell Park, kangaroos stared disinterestedly at us while munching grass. The researcher we had just met had taken her […]
Road Tripping: Perth to Exmouth
Western Australia Adventure Part 1 We left Canberra in the dark on a chilly morning, arriving in Perth 6 hours later in jeans and jackets. That was the first mistake. Perth was experiencing a heatwave, […]
