Sharks, Termites and Ghosts...oh my!

It's been a couple of weeks since our last update because the internet hasn't quite reached the northwest coast of Australia. But we're back in the Perth area now and happy to say we survived our 3,000 kilometer road trip as far into the "outback" as our two-wheel drive delivery van/caravan would let us.

The Aussie Route 1 took us past thousands of giant termite mounds, mysterious rock pinnacles in the desert, and some beautiful campsites, including a night camping alone at the most haunted homestead in Western Australia. We detoured to the town of Exmouth to swim with whale sharks (video coming, hopefully) and manta rays, watch the humpback whales migrate, and dive to a reef shark cleaning station. We also started to explore some off-the-beaten track campsites, often relying on the advice of "grey nomads," Ozzie retirees who have sold their homes and live in roving packs of caravans.

It was a beautiful trip through a sometimes desolate coastline, with interesting marine life and a little Australian Outback mixed in. Here's an album with a few pictures: https://plus.google.com/photos/103829313469224560701/albums/6027171525075874177

We're now headed south, to the Margaret River area for some good food and wine, before swinging back up to Perth for our flight to Malaysia on June 30.  Hopefully we'll get a chance to upload a whale shark video at some point in the near future, depending on the whims of the internet gods...