WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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With off-grid seclusion, the whitest sands and bluest waters, Cape Arid makes our list of favourite National Parks.
Towering skyward and stretching to the horizon, Western Australia’s Bilbunya Dunes are worth every minute of the bumpy ride to reach them.
When you arrive someplace like this, nothing beats unloading the canoe and gliding straight out on the water to explore.
Hema's maps have been a catalyst for many of our adventures, so we're excited to be working together to update a few tracks for their guidebooks, and to create digital tracks and imagery for the Hema Explorer Cloud. First up, Western Australia's Holland Track!
The bow nudged into the sand as Luke cut the outboard. The soft afternoon sun drenched the landscape and it was a moment that felt like like we were exactly where we should be.
To escape the winter crowds heading north, we turned our wheels in the opposite direction. Inspired by an image of the vast Bilbunya Dunes we hit the maps. We settled on an off-road route from Cocklebiddy, near the SA/WA border, west along the Great Australian Bight, through the Bilbunya Dunes and finally on to Esperance.
Crystal clear waters on the east, rugged cliffs on the west, a rich history, ambitious environmental goals and part of the Shark Bay World Heritage Area, Dirk Hartog Island is no doubt wild and unique.
A mysterious foreign name, the proximity to the wild Southern Ocean, a promise of both forests and white uncrowded beaches alike - D’Entrecasteaux National Park in Australia’s South West was beckoning!
The Gibb River Road is a short-cut that connects the remote Kimberley towns of Derby and Kununurra. In the wet season, December to March, it is impassable. In the dry it is 660km of corrugated hell for the ill-prepared.
Weekenders are all about the here and now, about making the most of the time you DO have! With that in mind we loaded our packs and headed for Dwellingup, a short 1.5 hour drive from Perth.