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The Grand Tourists

Dreams, waking thoughts and incidents on the road

Aussie roadtrip stats

  • Days travelled: 100
  • Kilometres travelled: 26,161
  • Free/paid camps: 51/49
  • Pies eaten: 26
  • Tantrums thrown: 6
  • Bush poos taken: 1

Recent posts

  • A walk in the park: hiking in Peru, Australia and NZ
  • The last leg: limping from Byron Bay to Cup Day
  • The road most travelled: On the backpacker trail to Brisbane
  • Diver down: Learning to dive on the Great Barrier Reef
  • On the tablelands: Eating our way through Tropical North Queensland
  • Where the forest meets the sea: Discovering the Daintree Rainforest
  • The rest of the Red Centre: Hiking Kings Canyon and Ormiston Gorge
  • Between the Rock and a hard place: Uluru and Alice Springs
  • Discovering Australia’s Disneyland: Kakadu National Park
  • Bugs, crocs and bushfires: a million ways to die in the Top End

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An Aussie girl and an Englishman meet in Thailand and make their lives an endless Grand Tour.

Follow us as we road trip Australia and New Zealand, backpack South America and explore Europe.

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Tag: whales

Moby meets the Ningaloo Reef: Carnarvon to Coral Bay
Australia

Moby meets the Ningaloo Reef: Carnarvon to Coral Bay

Continuing north in Western Australia, we risk our vanlives camping on Quobba’s wild coastline and and swim with dugongs and manta rays at the start of the Ningaloo Reef in Coral Bay. Continue reading Moby meets the Ningaloo Reef: Carnarvon to Coral Bay

Having a whale of a time: Esperance to Albany
Australia

Having a whale of a time: Esperance to Albany

Our victory on the Nullabor crossing has unlocked Western Australia’s remote south west coast. We visit the whitest sand in the world at Lucky Bay, and find a whale nursery at the end of Fitzgerald National Park. Continue reading Having a whale of a time: Esperance to Albany

Never a dull moment: the Nullarbor Plain
Australia

Never a dull moment: the Nullarbor Plain

We’d heard a lot about the danger, difficulty and tedium of the Nullarbor Plain crossing. But no one told us that hundreds of whales and their calves live right in the middle at the Head of the Bight, South Australia. Continue reading Never a dull moment: the Nullarbor Plain

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