Road tripping – South West WA: part 1
We were back on the road together at last, heading south along the West Australia coastline. There’s no better feeling then eight days of exploring ahead of you! Mitch’s flight arrived around 3pm so it […]
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Exploring Ningaloo- week 9 (last week!)
Today marks the start of the last week of my internship. I was up at 5am to go look for turtles at Five Mile, hoping to see some hatchlings. A cyclone was building further to […]
Exploring Ningaloo – week 7
I headed out to Bungelup remote camp for the night, driving through a wind driven sandstorm. Red dust was flying across the road in a cloud and swirling above the ground. It was so windy, […]
Exploring Ningaloo – week 6
This morning at Five Mile was magical. When I was trying to work out where the first two overlapping tracks went I saw sand spraying into the air. Looked again. Yup, it couldn’t be the […]
Exploring Ningaloo – week 5
Since Mitch and his parents arrived only two days ago it feels like a week has passed, we’ve fit so much in. The first afternoon I took them to Bundegi for a snorkel under the […]
Exploring Ningaloo – week 3
I walked Jacobsz South to Wobiri today to record tracks. I was dropped off on the side of Yardie Creek Road with another lady to walk 500 metres along a soft, sandy 4wd track to […]
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, […]
Visiting the mouse house
I had the opportunity to see what lies behind the doors of an ANU captive breeding facility. I found hundreds of small, brown, cute eyed creatures. Kiarrah, a PhD student from the Australian National University […]
