2018 travel update

Hi everyone, this is the time of year when I update my travel page with last year's travel around Western Australia, and Australia. Looking back we didn't do as much local travel in 2018 as we took a trip to Europe in May. As much as we enjoyed it and we saw a lot and had lots of new experiences and met some wonderful people, as well as catching up with friends in Malta, I think I prefer Australian travel. Travelling overseas really does make you appreciate what you have here. 

However looking back over 2018 we did manage to get out and about. To join me on our local travels, please click on the links which will take you to my Life Images by Jill blog.  
Thank you for stopping by. Sit back and enjoy as you come travelling with me in Western Australia.

Cape Leeuwin - South west corner of Western Australia - meeting of the oceans - March 2018

 Kwolyin - Camping in the Western Australian wheatbelt - April 2018

Early morning in the wheatbelt - April 2018

 The wildflowers are starting to pop at Crooked Brook, Dardanup, Western Australia - August 2018 

Gather around the campfire

 Wildflower hunting and taking time out - goldfields and wheatbelt, Western Australia
- September 2018

  
Down in the woods today - hunting for wild orchids, Western Australia -  September 2018

Cue - Queen of the Murchison, Western Australia - and also featuring Walga Rock - October 2018

Camping at Karalee Rock, Western Australia - on the way to the goldfields, October 2018 

Ferguson Valley Open Gardens, Western Australia - November 2018

Travel Western Australia - 2017 update

Hi everyone, it's the time of year again when I update my blog with my travel from the past year, 2017, with the travel posts you will find on my main blog - Life Images by Jill.
I hope you will visit me over there for lots of travel, inspiration and other stuff as well!

4 Wheel driving on Bob's Track to Hamelin Bay, Western Australia 

The Old Timberline Trail, St Johns Brook, Nannup, Western Australia

A walk by the River, Leschenault Inlet, Bunbury, Western Australia 

 Autumn at Balingup Tree Park, Western Australia

The Wool Wagon Pathway, Murchison, Western Australia 

 Lake Dumbleyung, Western Australia and Donald Campbell

 Down in the Woods Today, Gnomesville, Ferguson Valley, Western Australia

 What do Gerald Durrell and Nannup have in common, Western Australia

 Crooked Brook Forest, Dardanup, Western Australia

Hunting for Wild Orchids in the Western Australian mid-west 

 Kennedy Ranges, Pilbara, Western Australia

 Camping at Potters Gorges, Wellington Dam, Western Australia

Puzzle This -Amazen, Margaret River, Western Australia 

Farm Gate Art Trail and wildflowers, Ravensthorpe, Western Australia 

 Biodiversity Hotspot, Fitzgerald River National Park, Western Australia

And some travel from the other side of Australia.....

Icons of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

10 Things to Do in Sydney, Australia 

Travel Western Australia 2016 update

Hi everyone, I'm back to update you with more travel stories from 2016. My apologies for not updating this blog regularly, but these days I write my travels blogs over on my main blog - Life Images by Jill
Rest assured I am still travelling and blogging, so I hope you will visit me over there. If you are looking for a particular destination check into the index.

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These are my travel blogs for 2016 -you can click on the links to read these posts -

January 2016 - Australia Day and Re-Discover Street Art, Bunbury, Western Australia 

February 2016 - Where the Forest Meets the Sea, Denmark, Western Australia 

March 2016 - From Paddock to City - Busselton, Wagin, Harvey and Perth, Western Australia 

April 2016 - Those magnificent men in their flying machines - flight over Busselton, Western Australia

May 2016 - Another day in paradise - Coral Bay, Western Australia

June 2016 - Autumn - Season of change - Balingup Tree Park, Western Australia 

July 2016 - Finding a camp in the great Western Australian outback 

 July 2016 - Beaches like these, Kimberley, Western Australia

July 2016- Cathedral Gorge, Purnululu, Western Australia

August 2016 - The wildflowers are blooming in the Kimberley, Western Australia

 August 2016 - The-boab-tree-adansonia-gregorii

 September 2016 - Finding the Green Birdflower - Western Australia

September 2016 - Sacred Hearth Church, Beagle Bay, Western Australia

September 2016 - Once in 40 years wildflower extraviganser - visiting Lesuer National Park, Western Australia

October 2016 - Meeting a Bilbi in the Dryandra Woodland, Western Australia

October 2016 - On the road through the Kimberley, Western Australia 

November 2016 - Rottnest Island short break, Western Australia

Travel Western Australia update 2015

Hi everyone, I hope you are doing some travel either around your home country, state, overseas or right here in Western Australia. 

A reminder to everyone, if you are looking for a Western Australian destination on my blog, please go to my Index as the first port of call where you will find links to my blog posts both here on Tour Downunder Western Australia and my main blog - Life Images by Jill

2015 has flown by in a flash. Life is far too busy, but we have managed to take some time out for some travel, if only short day trips.

Here's some links to show you what we have been up to - I hope you will visit me at some of these destinations.

 In late September early October, we travelled out through the eastern wheatbelt to Dryandra, McDermid Rock, Cave Hill and through the Great Western Woodland and the central wheatbelt - 

 Camping in the Dryandra Woodland
Free camping at McDermid Rock 
Spring in the Western Australiand wheatbelt 

Murchison River camping, Wooleen Station - In July we travelled to Kalbarri and then took a dirt road across to the Murchison and camped on the banks of the Murchison River at one of Wooleen Station's river-side camps for a few days. Absolute quiet river frontage. Bliss.

In June we helped maintenance volunteers on the Bibbulmun Track near the Grimwade campsite. A walk with Bibbulmun Track volunteers

 In May we visited the Golden Valley Tree Park in Balingup to see the trees putting on their autumn colours. Autumn in the Golden Valley Tree Park
and closer to home explored the beautiful Ferguson Valley - How green was my valley - Ferguson Valley

In April we went bushwalking at Hoffmans Mill near Harvey.  Bushwalking at Hoffmans Mill

In March I blogged about 10 things to do in Yallingup without going to the beach. 10 things to do in Yallingup
and we enjoyed a lazy Sunday lunch at Flutes Winery - Lazy Sunday lunch, Flutes, Yallingup

  In February we watched 2000 people swim 3.6km around the Busselton Jetty in the annual Busselton Jetty swim -  Busselton Jetty Swim

And in January we travelled to Denmark and Albany via the historic St Werburghs Chapel built in 1873 just out of Mt Barker. St Werburghs Chapel, Mt Barker

  
Happy travels everyone. 

Never stop travelling, exploring and taking photos

Hi everyone, just a quick update to let you know I am still out there travelling, exploring and taking photos of our beautiful Western Australia.

I have been updating the INDEX on this page with the new travel posts, updated information and new images,

 so please go to the INDEX as your first port of call if you are searching for Western Australian travel. I have found it will probably be more reliable than the "search this blog" tab if you know what area you are looking for.

The new links will take you to my other blog which will have to latest information and images - Life Images by Jill.  Link to Life Images by Jill

I hope you will visit me there for more recent and more photos. 

Notable trips over the last few years have been -

In 2012 we travelled to the far north eastern corner of the wheatbelt to free camp at a number of huge granite rock outcrops and also explored the Indian Ocean Drive along Western Australia's coast.

In 2013 we traversed the Holland Track for the first time in the remote southern Western Australian goldfields and then up through the woodlines area camping at various granite rocks, and also travelled across the Nullabor to South Australia - two firsts for us.

In 2014 our most notable trip was to revisit Karijini National Park with first time visits to explore Mt Augustus and the Kennedy Ranges in the Pilbara of Western Australia. I wondered why I had never been there before!

I am always searching for new places to visit, although we have to travel further and further afield to find somewhere we haven't been before.

I wonder where our next trip will be? I haven't planned it yet - but rest assured you will be able to read about it here on Tour Downunder Western Australia or my other blog Life Images by Jill.  Perhaps I will meet up with you at a campsite somewhere.
Happy travels!

Here is a pic of Mount Augustus - you can read about it by clicking here - Flowers that bloom in the red rock of Mount Augustus and here - Mount Augustus walk trails