These pages describe a major trip that my wife and I undertook to Australia, including Tasmania, from August – October 2024.

Getting there – and getting essential supplies

A Day in Fremantle

A Day on Rottnest Island

Our last day in Perth

A Brief Excursion to Exmouth

New: Broome

Moving on from Broome

Kimberley Day 1 – Lacépède Islands

Kimberley Day 2 – Montgomery Reef and Freshwater Cove

Kimberley Day 3 – Talbot Bay and the Horizontal Falls

Kimberley Day 4 – Bigge Island

Kimberley Day 5 – Hunter River & Porosus Creek

Kimberley Day 6 – Swift Bay

Kimberley Day 7 – Vansittart Bay

Kimberley Day 8 – King George River

Off the ship and into Darwin

A Day in Litchfield National Park

Heading south through the “Top End”

Ayers and Graces

Coober Pedy – Life Underground

Wandering around Adelaide

Escape to from Kangaroo Island

Melbourne – Modern and Historic, Handsome and Scruffy

P-p-p-pick up a Penguin*

Interjection – completing the Melbourne staff work

Escape from Melbourne, and Day 1 on Tasmania

Wandering round Hobart

Diversion: The Henry Jones Art Hotel, Hobart

Crossing Tasmania – Hobart to Strahan

Macquarie Harbour and Gordon River Huon Cry

Landscapes, Wildlife and a Feeding Frenzy at Cradle Mountain

Launceston. Not the one in Cornwall.

Bright-eyed and Bushy

Bushie, tailed again

Freixenet Freycinet

Farewell, Tasmania; Hello, Mainland

Spring Surprise in Canberra

Arriving in Sydney

Watson for today, then?

North! to Al.. Belrose

A Manly Spit

Paddington, Barely

Farewell, Brisbane; heading North! to Port Douglas

Port Douglas

Casso Wary

Julaymba and Mossman – Gorgeous

Atherton Tablelands – Not Rooful

Lizard Island, Part 1

Lizard Island, Part 2

Cairns: I had Crocodile in Dundee’s