Sand Dune Sunset

Living an outdoor lifestyle is unparalleled. It has its tradeoffs - most of the interesting work in my field is actually found in cities, and you can escape the city if you know where to go, but nothing beats being able to live a quiet life in the region. The outdoors is on your doorstep.

In truth though, the above is merely a reflection, because it took us eight hours to get to this spot.

But that's just it - driving from Karratha to Exmouth, there is not a lot in between. A few turn offs to small towns, two roadhouses, and well, a lot of cows, spinafex, wildflowers, rivers, (a mine, yes), and just, nothing. For six hours or so! Those hours move into a blur of not much when you look back - just colour, beauty and whatever book you had to read in the car.

Travel of this nature is not for everyone - but it does offer a time of reflection and watching the landscape subtly change from the rocky Pilbara to the sandy Gascoyne is pretty impressive.

None-the-less, we arrived at Cape Range, camped behind a sand dune and were blessed with the peace only a beachside camping experience can offer - silence but for the waves and conversation.

“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

Misty water in the sunlight

On this last trip to Karijini we managed to take my parents up and down each and every gorge you can visit in the park and then some.

We visited this little known gem, Kalamina Gorge. It's not really that interesting, but it does have some lovely little cascades. We were there late morning, but the shade was just nice enough to expose the cascades correctly to mist them up nicely while still getting the greenery around.

This photo actually caught me by surprise - it's one of many I took for a HDR, but I think it works just fine on its own.