Long term solo travel on a budget.
Western Australia is massive. It covers 2,529,875 km2, or one third, of Australia, that's seriously huge. If it was it's own country it would be in the Top 10 biggest countries in the world, you could fit England inside it 20 times or Texas 4 times. Most of the population lives in Perth which is the …
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After driving around 1,300km north in 8 days to swim with whale sharks it was finally time to turn around and make our way back home as fast as possible so Nigel the Nissan didn't cost us any more money. It was an impossibly long, boring and uneventful drive made marginally more exciting with the random …
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1250km north of Perth at the very tip of Australia's west coast is a small town called Exmouth, famous for giving travellers the opportunity to swim with whale sharks. If you don't already know what a whale shark is, let me educate you. The whale shark is a slow, graceful filter-feeding shark and the worlds …
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We left Shark Bay and made our way even further north, passing through Carnarvon and wishing we had a 4x4 to explore the dramatic Gascoyne Coast along Gnaraloo Road, but we had a Nissan Micra, so we stuck to the highway and ended up in Coral Bay. Seriously, rent a 4x4 if you can afford …
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