11/04-01/06/2005 - report - photos
Participants: Tom Brennan, Rachel Grindlay
Monday 11 April: Sydney to Rutherglen (733km)
View from the saddle of The Rock, along the range to the north
Tuesday 12 April: Rutherglen to Mt Arapiles (520km)
Wednesday, 13 April: Mt Arapiles (6km)
Tuesday, 14 April: Mt Arapiles to Port Parham (534km)
The Old Bordertown Gaol, now the toilets
Friday 15 April Port Parham to Melrose (250km)
Port Parham camping - ah, the serenity!
Tom climbing up to Mt Remarkable
Saturday 16 April: Melrose to Port Lincoln (478km)
Lincoln National Park
Rachel climbing down the cliffs
Cheese and muscat - sunset at Fishermans Point in Lincoln National Park
Sunday 17 April: Port Lincoln to Talia Caves (349km)
View from Stamford Hill over Boston Bay
Monday 18 April: Talia Caves to Wandilla Beach (435km)
Looking out of one of the Talia Caves
Rachel at Murphys Haystacks
Sea lions at Point Labatt - photo taken through the binocular eyepiece
Tuesday 19 April: Wandilla Beach to Mundrabilla Rest Stop (533km)
Grey clouds at Wandilla
Murrawijinie Caves
Dingo at Nullarbor Roadhouse
It's a veritable menagerie out there!
The Bunda Cliffs on the Great Australian Bight
Climbing down the last cliffs to the Southern Ocean
The old telegraph station on the plains at Eucla, slowly being overtaken by dunes
Wednesday 20 April: Mundrabilla Rest Stop to Kalgoorlie (857km)
Phoenix tailings dump at Northam
Thursday 21 April: Kalgoorlie to Northam (569km)
The Superpit at Kalgoorlie
Friday 22 April: Northam to Perth (181km)
Saturday 23 April - Tuesday 26 April: Australian National Ultimate Frisbee Championships (104km)
Wednesday 27 April - Friday 29 April: Perth (104km)
Wadjemup Lighthouse
Twins? Tom and quokka
Saturday 30 April: Perth to Harvey (159km)
Sunday 1 May: Harvey to Ludlow-Tuart Forest (163km)
Monday 2 May: Ludlow-Tuart Forest to Canebrooke Pool (266km)
Busselton Jetty
Cape Naturaliste - "the Other Side of the Moon"
Tuesday 3 May: Canebrooke Pool to Conto's Field (114km)
Busselton Jetty
Busselton Jetty
Wednesday 4 May: Conto's Field to Big Brook Arboretum (166km)
Inside Lake Cave
Boranup Forest
Western Australia - state of danger?
The Dave Evans Bicentennial Tree
Tuesday 5 May: Big Brook Arboretum to Centre Rd Crossing (229km)
On the Pemberton Tram
Looking down from the Diamond Tree Fire Lookout, one of the three big climbing trees
Cliffs in D'Entrecasteaux National Park
Friday 6 May: Centre Rd Crossing to Parry's Beach (117km)
Tree Top Walk at the Valley of the Giants
Rachel on Conspicuous Beach, below, well, Conspicuous Cliffs
Saturday 7 May: Parry's Beach to Torbay Inlet
Cliffs at West Cape Howe
Rachel at the Natural Bridge at Torndirrup National Park
Sunday 8 May: Torbay Inlet to Muttonbird Island (93km)
Bald Head in Torndirrup National Park
Walking back from Bald Head
Monday 9 May: Muttonbird Island to Porongorup (78km)
Porongorup National Park, Nancy Peak in the background
Tuesday 10 May: Porongorup to Stirling Ranges (144km)
Bluff Knoll, highest peak in southern WA
Storms over the Stirling Ranges
View from Toolbrunup Peak
The Lily, with the Stirling Ranges in the background
Wednesday 11 May: Stirling Ranges to Two Peoples Bay Nth (201km)
Rachel manning the harpoon at Whale World
Thursday 12 May: Two Peoples Bay North to Fitzgerald River National Park (235km)
Inlet at Waychinicup National Park
Climbing up to West Mt Barren, East Mt Barren in the background
Royal Hakea (Hakea victoriae)
Friday 13 May: Fitzgerald River National Park to Helms Arboretum (405km)
Saturday 14 May: Helms Arboretum to Cape Arid National Park (145km)
Seals on the rocks off Esperance
Banksia at dusk
Sunday 15 May: Cape Arid National Park to Cape Le Grand National Park (154km)
Beach at dawn
Banksia speciosa
Frenchmans Cap
Monday 16 May: Cape Le Grand National Park to Dundas Rocks (252km)
Emerging rainbow
Road train
Tuesday 17 May: Dundas Rocks to Mundrabilla Rest Stop (649km)
Wednesday 18 May: Mundrabilla Rest Stop to Penong (586km)
Fog at Mundrabilla
Bunda Cliffs
Pedestrian crossing? No, it's actually a runway marker for the Flying Doctor
The Nullarbor
Thursday 19 May: Penong to Kimba (416km)
Mt Wudinna
The Big Galah, pride of Kimba
Saturday 21 May: Wilpena to Cooinda Camp
Tanderra Saddle, Wilpena Pound
St Mary Peak from Tanderra Saddle
Xanthorrhea sp
Flinders Ranges from St Mary Peak
Wilpena Pound
Malloga Falls
Tom descending Mt Ohlssen Bagge
Monday 23 May: Wilpena to Mambray Creek (275km)
Sacred Canyon - note the rock art on the walls
Alligator Gorge
Tuesday 24 May: Mambray Creek to Adelaide (285km)
Wednesday 25 May: Adelaide to Deep Creek Conservation Park (135km)
Thursday 26 May: Deep Creek Conservation Park (11km)
Deep Creek
Tom at Deep Creek, further upstream
Friday 27 May: Deep Creek Conservation Park to Parnka Point, The Coorong (280km)
Saturday 28 May: Parnka Point, The Coorong to Mt Gambier (348km)
Rachel and diprotodon at Naracoorte
Blue Lake
Sunday 29 May: Mt Gambier to Grampians (286km)
Black swan at Valley Lake, Mt Gambier
Sunset from Mt William in the Grampians
Monday 30 May: Grampians to Rutherglen (493km)
The Pinnacle
Descending Silent Street, a mini canyon
The Balconies