As its name suggests, Western Australia is located on the western side of Australia and is Australia’s largest state. Western Australia has a huge coastline running along the western side of Australia. Many of the top holiday destinations in Western Australia are based along this coastline.
There are many great attractions in Perth for tourists and locals to enjoy.
As a school holiday destination, Perth offers a many different activities for adults and children.
There are a full calendar of festivals in Perth and local regions throughout the year.
Australia Day Fireworks – This has fast become one of Perth’s biggest events with more than 360,000 people watching the half hour fireworks and laser display whilst gathering in Kings Park and along the Swan River. The show normally begins at 8:00pm on 26 January each year.
Perth International Arts Festival – This is a major cultural festival that is held in the months of February and March each year and features artists in music, film, dance, theatre and the visual arts from all over the world.
Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe – With more than 70 sand sculptures made by many of the world’s best, Cottesloe Beach hosts one of the largest annual exhibitions for three weeks in March each year.
The Perth Royal Show – This show is held annually for 8 days in September and/or October each year. There are hundreds of activities and shows that will entertain the whole family.
To Paraburdoo via Tom Price We slept soundly on our last night in Karajini National Park. David could hardly move as he tried to get out of the tent. His back was stuffed from falling on his bum twice on our gorge adventures the day before. We had breakfast, packed up and headed on our … Read more
Conquering Kermits Pool and Circular Pool in one day This ended up being a challenging day both physically and mentally for both David and I. We innocently set off on a day that begun by dropping by an outlook and viewing the vast magnificent surroundings. David on arthritic and other drugs that upset his balance and … Read more
Slight detour for swim in Hamersley Gorge, Karijini National Park. From the car park you could see the vastness of the beautiful surroundings. We packed some water bottles and a backpack with some lunch and headed down the rock steps towards the bottom of the gorge. Once safely at the bottom we got ready for a swim. We floated … Read more
All in one day A swim in Deep Reach, hike down swim in and hike back up Hamersley gorge and a drive to our next camping spot at Karijini Eco Retreat. What a wonderful day full of great memories. Icy cold apple cider After paying, and getting instructions to where our campsite was located we decided … Read more
On the way to Millstream Chichester National Park The views out the car window were forever changing and the vast beauty of the Pilbara apparent. The remoteness and isolation and lack of civilisation is forgotten about with the car radio and air conditioning that keeps us entertained and comfortable. Outside the car it is 41 degrees. Help if needed is … Read more
Pack up and break tent in Millstream OK perhaps its not a good idea to leave the packing up of the tent to inexperienced campers. We had been shown how to fold up the tent and sort of knew what we were doing. The amount of force used to fold the tent the right way also … Read more
Camping in Karratha After arriving to the campsite in Karratha in the darkness of the night and then setting up in the heat was exhausting. We had a late dinner, a refreshing shower at the campsite and fell asleep very easily. After some breakfast we went for a drive around and up a nearby mountain. … Read more
We packed up camp and left Carnarvan after a hearty breakfast. Wayne made us a jaffle sandwich in a jaffle iron which was cooked over the gas cook-top. Delicious way to use up left over BBQ meat from the night before. We drove towards a place known as Quobba Station. Quobba Station – Blowholes We parked the car … Read more
There are two things about Carnarvon. One is I just can’t pronounce it. I sometimes fluke it and even when David told be an easy way to remember it was to make it rhyme with Marvin I still get mixed up. I manage to make it rhyme with Marvin and its still wrong. Two is … Read more
This was going to be our first time camping, first time 4WD in the Western Australia outback and the first time we had to find a place to look after our two dogs Taffee and Fudge. Up until now we had family looking after them when we went away on trips or better still they … Read more
About Wayne lives in Perth and often drops in to say hello to us when doing business trips to Melbourne. Back in August 2015 we were having a few drinks and discussed the boys turning 50 and going on a holiday together – Wayne and Nadine and David and I. We talked about meeting in … Read more