Redback Spiders catch and eat snakes – Really?

Redback Spider Eating Snake

I was having a little bit of banter with an Australian work colleague of mine the other day. Having found another Redback spider in the back garden a couple of weeks ago I’ve found myself becoming a little laid back with the frequency of these near-death encounters Poking the red back with a stick, I [...]

Shell Beach – Monkey Mia

Shell Beach - Monkey Mia - Western Australia 24

I thought I would save the last entry in the recent series of Blog entries following our Western Australia Road trip to Shell Beach. Shell beach, just a few Kilometres south of Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort is an amazing place. From a distance the beach looks like any other ‘amazingly beautiful’ tropical beach with clean [...]

Monkey Mia Dolphins – Enjoying the Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort

Monkey Mia Dolphins - Shark Bay, Western Australia

Once we had decided to embark on our Road trip around western Australia, we had two options. Option one: head down south towards the wine regions of Margaret River where we would spend the week touring the local wineries amongst beautiful landscapes, getting slowly drunker by the day OR Option two: travel north to see [...]

Wild Budgies and Zebra Finches – Australias local pet shop

Budgies and Zebra Finches in Western Australia

Since arriving down under I’ve already written about the wonders of the bird life here in Western Australia. Coming from Northern England, the most exotic birds we saw were the pigeons we’d often see waddling around. The poor things normally had a toe missing or stumpy foot due to a close call with a piece [...]

Large open spaces – the remoteness of Western Australia

Western Australia remote road

As I mentioned yesterday, we travelled quite some distance during our road trip, 4449 kilometres to be exact and I have to say, I have never been so awe struck by the vastness of the place that we now call home. The reality of the sheer size of Australia first struck home when I had [...]

Merry Christmas Everyone!

australian-cloudy-sky

Well this is our third Christmas since we arrived down under and the family and I are really looking forward to a nice relaxing Christmas day. The Turkey has been taken out of the freezer and the next 24 hours should hopefully provide sufficient time for the thing to be defrosted.We’ve also got some huge [...]

Hillarys boat harbour the Mcnaught comet fireworks and lightening Australia day 2007

Hillarys boat harbour, the Mcnaught comet fireworks and lightening Australia day 2007

Now, for those of you who visit GDU regularly, you’ll remember the sense of wonder and awe that I managed to capture in my Australia day fireworks photo’s. OK, perhaps blurry, out of focus snaps might be a better description but you still got the idea. This morning, an email hit my inbox with the [...]