Blog entry - sneak preview

Dear readers

As it is sooo hard to get decent internet access in the Australian Outback we haven't been able to keep you guys up to date with our journey. I (Rein) have started a posting in draft but haven't even been able to finish that, due to being on the road all the time and therefore not behind the computer.

So to help maintain your much appreciated interest, here is a snippet of what's to come. I assure you, we will try not to make a habit of it.

Please stay tuned!

A Road beyond Bangalore…. To Broome!

Rein checking in –

"After being on the road for exactly one full week and having “done” 3200 k. we’ve made it to Broome! In fact, I am writing this blog entry, or at least its first draft, sitting in the sun right in the middle of Broome’s ‘world famous’ Cable Beach.

The trip has turned out to be an epic journey as promised. The state of Western Australia not only is vast (i.e. comparable in size to Western Europe) it is also uniquely beautiful in its geography and climatic diversity. Over the past 7 days we have traveled roughly along its Indian Ocean coast through temperate Mediterranean and sub-tropical climate to the tropical North.

Along the way we have made several side trips to get the maximum out of our journey. Again due to the size of the state and the corresponding distances this has meant we’ve added almost 1000 kilometers to the trip. But this has been very much worth it. Unfortunately, the great pictures we took at the most spectacular sights are lost, due to a crash of our hard drive. As you can imagine we were not amused by this, but again it has taught us a lesson; not to be too focused on shooting that ultimate shot and forget to just enjoy the moment and taking it all in as we are living it. This has also meant that we’ve had to rely on internet stock photos for the first few pictures in the postings of our road trip.

So after 10 days or so of preparation, which was mostly in the trustworthy hands of Simon and his mother, we set of from Rockingham, South of Perth, towards Lancelin, a rather dull surfing town just north of the outer suburbs of the city. We enjoyed our first road trip lunch here on the pristine white beach (feasting on typical Aussie curry pasties, courtesy of mum Andrew). Then we continued directly along the coast to Cervantes where we set up camp for our first night. We chose this place because of its proximity to the Pinnacles Desert. The Pinnacles are a natural phenomenon of vertical limestone columns set in a desert landscape. Scientists still don’t agree on how they came about, one theory claiming they are fossils of ancient tree trunks.