The Last of my Travels - North WA

So the last of my travels in Australia, was a final 10 day tour of north WA...it went by so darn fast! This is the lovely town of Broome, it is a small pearling town. The shopping here was fantastic - lots of beautiful pearls and of course not to mention gorgeous beaches!





Red Dirt Country - only in Australia do you have a beach that backs up to the Outback and imported palm trees.


These fine people are Bill Watson look-alike and our fab tour guide Liz (who we all love!)



Our first day in Karijini and refreshing Fern Pool (sacred water hole to the aborigionals).











Karijni is supposed to be the best place in all of Australia to star gaze, so we were lucky enough to view the full moon and take pictures with our cameras on a huge telescope!






Living Rocks - no big deal, they look like ordinary rocks right? About 3.5 billion years ago stromatolites were formed increasing the total oxogen levels on earth to 20% making it possible for air-breathing life forms to evolve...pretty big deal. Plus this is the only place that you can actually view them on earth!


My favorite Australian wild flowers.


Snorkeling at the Ningaloo Reef on a nice day...the water was freezing but it was really hot out so it's OK :)




Western most sunset of Exmouth, WA.


Nature's window at Kalabari Nat. Park





Leaning Tree - is shaped this way because of the strong winds.


The Pinicales - water erosion carves out stone but leaves some still standing.

My last BIG AUS Adventure - Travels North WA & Karijini Nat. Park

Welcome to Red Dirt Country - the OUTBACK. Do you happen to recall an email I sent out recently forwarded to me by my dad with that huge python on a ledge in a beautiful red gorge pulling a dead kangaroo out of the water by its head ready to have probably the biggest meal of its life? In the email I promised that I wouldn't push my luck and go rock climbing in any Australian gorges that could ever hide a snake large enough to consume a human being...Well...I don't want to alarm anyone...but I lied! Sorry! Oh and by the way, that was a real picture of the snake and kangaroo taken a couple summers ago in Red gorge Karijini Nat. Park...

Red gorge was only the start of our adventure! I upgraded (along with six other people) to an awesome AWESOME extreme tour of abseiling, rock climbing, jumping off rocks, shooting down natural waterfalls (the Goonies come to mind), spider walking between gorge water cracks that are known to be the oldest exposed rocks in the world (called the center of the earth)! Needless to say, it was the most thrilling, absolutely terrifying, insane day I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing in my life!!! And I would do it all over again in a heartbeat :) The best part of this unique adventure tour was that our guide would take all the pictures and videos of us doing this cool stuff - so at the end of the day we would have it available to...idunno...upload to Youtube.com and share with our friends & family the precise moment in time that we thought that we were going to DIE hanging off of a slippery inch ledge with only a flimsy rope around your waist...ha ha just kidding, well not really...ENJOY!!!

Take a look for yourself, and again I survived to tell you about it :) YAY!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzFBm_cwFg8

Sorry but you have to cut and paste the link - it's not allowing me to add a link at this time :(