​If you love mining and seeing what the effects of mining can do to a community, and then the effects on that community when the mining slows down, then you will love Kalgoorlie. It's main street is a mix of luxury SUVs and mine Utes plying the main drag whilst the few shops that are still in business give a glimpse as to how bustling the city would have been in it’s heyday.
To be honest, Kalgoorlie was a difficult place for us. We don’t agree with a lot of the mining techniques, and as such, there wasn’t a great deal for us to see or do. On top of that, people seemed to only acknowledge other miners.

​As we started to approach Albany (that’s AL-bany, not ALL-bany), we started looking for freecamps and were quite excited to see a couple on this side of town, but not too far away. We planned to check out all 3 but, once we arrived at East BayCampground in Two Peoples bay, we knew we weren’t going anywhere for a while. 

​Albany was a nice town, but, after not seeing a “big” town for so long, it was quite a shock to us! Do people really need that many shops? Do they really need to buy that much stuff? As we drove through town past all the shops selling more and more stuff it really made us thankful for how minimalistically we live and how much value we place on all of our possessions. That being said, it was nice to be able to buy Gypsy a new jumper and to pick up a couple of items we had been wanting to buy for a while.

There is no mention of Gnomesville in the tourism brochures, and if it wasn’t for it being marked in Wikicamps as a POI, we would have never known about it. It was quite the detour to get to but we thought it would be fun for Gypsy. We were wrong.

The south Western region of WA is such a beautiful area and we had really really been looking forward to it! But the weather gods had other ideas..

Kulin is a tiny town in the middle of nowhere south west WA. We stumbled upon it after visiting wave, on our journey back towards bremer bay.
​We were not prepared for what we found.

The nullabor was so amazing to cross! The scenery was always changing and the colours were just incredible!! It was such a wonderful 10 days :)
Here are a few pics.

We had SUCH an amazing time WWOOFing at the Wildlife Park I don't even know where to begin. 
We didn't know anything about the park, let alone that you could do WWOOFing there before we went. We just saw it as a park to take Gypsy to. And it was! She had a great time! There is a petting area with Kangaroos, Wallabies, Emu, Alpaca and Deer, and she just loved feeding the animals. We spent about an hour wandering through, feeding the animals and petting them and talking amongst ourselves about how great it was. 
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Camel rides on the beach?

Mango slushies?

Fresh local produce?

Fire breathing dragon?

It's pretty crazy the stuff you'll find at the airlie markets!!

Absolutely worth a visit of you find yourself in the area on a Saturday!

We made it to cooktown!!

This is the furthest north our Australian road trip will take us.

And honestly, I'm so proud of Ned for making it!! (Knock on wood) but he really has exceeded our expectations!

We are very lucky to have friends in nearly every place imaginable and cooktown is no exception!

As soon as we arrived we were off to lunch at a cute cafe overlooking the river, then a stroll along the boardwalk with our friends Emma & Steve.

And now? Well we thought we'd pop over to Finchs Bay for an afternoon tea icecream :)

Looking forward to exploring some of the waterfalls and nature walks tomorrow! Judging by what we've already seen its sure to be amazing!