Be careful what you wish for, after travelling by myself for all but the last three weeks I was looking forward to flying solo again, but the truth is I’d got use to having company and it felt a bit strange to be traveling by myself again. After dropping Richard at Learmonth airport I set […]

After dropping Marianne at the airport in Broome I headed 200km up the Dampier peninsula to visit the Cape Leveque lighthouse. To my surprise and disappointment when I got there I discovered that the two local indigenous communities had closed access to the lighthouse, notwithstanding that all indications were that it was open to the […]

This was always going to be a very different stage to the others on this trip, firstly because there aren’t any lighthouses and secondly because I wouldn’t be travelling alone as my wife joined me in Darwin to travel to Broome with me, as neither of us had ever seen this part of Australia before. […]

I have always considered myself a coastal person and consequently never had much interest or spent much time inland, least of all the outback, but that changed on my first leg back in September last year when I headed north to start this odyssey in the Torres Strait, via the Queensland outback. I remember being […]

One of the best things about doing what I’m doing is that the lighthouses take me to places I’ve never even thought of, much less known anything about, and a case in point is the Yorke Peninsula, or YP as the locals like to call it. Prior to plotting my journey I had a vague […]

I’d always had a curiosity about Kangaroo Island but never had enough reason to go there, until now that is, as it has four interesting lighthouses which thankfully necessitated a visit. I’m not sure what I was expecting but don’t think it was what I found as it is an island of contrasts, the weather […]

What a great way to start Act 3 by driving the Great Ocean Road, surely one of the most spectacular coastal road trips in Australia, if not the world, possibly rivalled only by driving through Big Sur along the northern Californian coast. Interestingly The Great Ocean Road has a story as winding as its famous […]

Where was I… In case anyone was wondering where I’ve been since my last post the answer is South America; more specifically Ecuador, Peru and Chile. The reason for this unplanned detour was that our daughter Lucy was turning 21 on 1st July and I wanted to be with her for this special birthday. Originally […]

Emerging from the Tarkine wilderness it was something of a shock to land in Stanley, a quaint seaside village in the shadow of a massive round headland, but there was something missing…people! Despite all the beautifully maintained victorian cottages and well kept gardens there was no sign of life. It reminded me of the Scottish […]