2019 - January to July

Many places visited Attadale, Gauge Roads - Fremantle, Narrows Bridge - South Perth, Crawley, Leighton Beach, South Mole - Fremantle, Hamlin Pool (Shark Bay), Denham, Monkey Mia, Gladstone (Shark Bay), Wooramel Station Retreat North West Coastal Highway), Deepwater Point - Mt Pleasant (Perth), Point Belcher (South Perth near Narrows Bridge), Indian Ocean Drive (north of Leeman) - Coolimba, Illawong & Leeman

01 January, 2019

8th January 2019 - Attadale Rainbow in the Clouds

Attadale is a riverside suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Melville.

It was the first subdivision of A.P. Matheson's Melville Water Park Estate. Attadale was named after an estate in Scotland situated on the south side of Loch Carron.

The suburb is located between the central business district and Fremantle along the southern side of the Swan River. Its extensive foreshore has many open spaces for residents and visitors including a large public open space along Burke Drive where residents can take their dogs for recreational activities.

9th March 2019 - Narrows Bridge, South Perth - Sunrise

The Narrows Bridge is a freeway and railway crossing of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia.

Made up of two road bridges and a railway bridge located over a section of water known as The Narrows, located between Mill Point and Point Lewis, it connects the Mitchell and Kwinana Freeways, linking the city's northern and southern suburbs. The original road bridge was opened in 1959 and was the largest precast prestressed concrete bridge in the world. Construction of the northern interchange for this bridge necessitated the reclamation of a large amount of land from the river.

The bridge formed part of the Kwinana Freeway which originally ran for only 2.4 miles (3.9 km). Over the following decades, the freeway system was expanded to the north and south, greatly increasing the volume of traffic using the bridge. As a result, in 2001, a duplicate traffic bridge was opened to the west of the original bridge, and in 2005, the railway bridge was constructed in the gap between the two traffic bridges. Passenger trains first traversed the Narrows in 2007 with the opening of the Mandurah railway line.

23rd March 2019 - Crawley - Sunrise

Crawley is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Subiaco and City of Perth. The earlier name of the locality was Crawley Park. It was named by an early landowner Henry Charles Sutherland, whose mother's maiden name was Crawley.

It is home to the University of Western Australia, the state's oldest university.

23rd March 2019 - Fremantle - Gage Roads

Gage Roads is an area in the outer harbour area of Fremantle Harbour in the Indian Ocean offshore from Fremantle, Western Australia.

It incorporates a deep water sea channel as part of its function.[1]

Gage Roads serves as a shipping lane and anchorage for sea traffic heading towards the seaport of Fremantle. Gage Roads was the location of the 1987 America's Cup,

Rottnest Island lies to the west of Gage Roads, Owen Anchorage and Cockburn Sound lie to the south.

13th April 2019 - Leighton Beach - Night images of a small freighter anchored of the beach

13th April 2019 - South Mole, Fremantle - A container ship entering Fremantle Harbour early morning.

18th April 2019 - Hamlin Pool

is home to the most diverse and abundant examples of stromatolites in the world. Also referred to as ‘living fossils’, stromatolites are living representatives of life over 3500 million years ago when there was no other complex life on Earth. A 200m boardwalk at Hamelin Pool provides excellent views of the stromatolites, microbialites and microbial mats. Please help protect these structures by staying on the boardwalk. Nearby is the Old Hamelin Pool Telegraph Station which was built in 1884 as part of the communication line between Perth and Roebourne. The original building is now a museum housing many artefacts.

19th April 2019 - Hamlin Pool Caravan Park

20th April 2019 - Denham Lookout

20th April 2019 - Monkey Mia (Dolphins, Loggerhead Turtles, Pelicans, Emu Chicks)

20th April 2019 - Eagle Bluff (Shark Bay)

Great view of Lemon Sharks doing their thing, also across the bay you can see Useless Loop salt mine ship loading facility

20th April 2019 - Shell Beach (Shark Bay)

21st April 2019 - Gladstone (Shark Bay)

21st April 2019 - Wooramel Retreat (North West Coastal Highway)

21st April 2019 - Wooramel Lookout (North West Coastal Highway)

11th May 2019 - Deepwater Point (Mt Pleasant) Sunrise

12th May 2019 - Point Belcher - South Perth near the Narrows Bridge

1st June 2019

Leeman Caravan Park, Mojo the Chihuahua's 10th Birthday and the Leeman Town Jetty

Leeman sits on turquoise waters, white sandy beaches and offshore islands harbouring a great diversity of marine life. The picturesque coastline offers great conditions for an array of water activities, Leeman is a windsurfing and sailing hub with consistent strong summer winds providing excellent conditions.
Located 20 kilometres inland of Leeman, the Stockyard Gully National Park is accessible by four-wheel drive only. Be sure to take your torch to explore the fascinating, ancient below ground river system of the Stockyard Gully caves. The caves form part of the Old North Stock Route, once used by stockmen on their journey south.
Nearby, Lake Indoon is a picturesque freshwater lake and is renowned as a premier location for water-skiing. Due sheer size of the lake, it’s a great spot for several the varieties of water birds. It’s also a popular free-camp site and a popular choice for stargazing lovers. Keep an eye out for the kangaroos and emus that inhabit the surrounding bushland and cattle when driving on the roads.

2nd June 2019 - Coolimba

The Coolimba Coast, west of Eneabba and just north of Leeman, is a fisherman's paradise. Limestone outcrops and long beaches offer fishermen a bounty of opportunities for catching that elusive "big one". For the non-fisherpeople, the coastline offers a multitude of flora and fauna to watch and enjoy while the others fish; mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, and frogs are abundant in the area, and the coastal scrub is home to beautiful coastal wildflowers and trees. Birdlife alone in the coastal region consists of over 180 species, including the Fairy Wren and Honeyeater.

2nd June 2019 - Illawong

Illawong beach (WA 1052) extends from the northern side of the bluffs for 600 m to a 10 m high, 50 m long vegetated headland. A total of about 20 shacks grouped into several small clusters back the beach, including one on the boundary headland, with the main road running just 200-300 m inland. Another 10 shacks are located on the northern side of the headland. Seagrass meadows front the southern section of the beach with a more sandy seafloor along the central-northern section

2nd June 2019 - Port Denison

Dongara Port Denison is the perfect destination with a range of activities to suit all holidays, whether it be surfing and swimming at South Beach, enjoying a peaceful walk along the Irwin River bank…

taking a step back in time with the Dongara Heritage Walk, having a tranquil paddle in a kayak, or sitting under the stars at the Dongara Denison Drive Ins.