Karijini National Park is a superb part of Western Australia. If your kids can survive the 14-hour drive north from Perth, there is plenty for them to enjoy in this excellent National Park. We spent a week camped at Karijini National Park with three kids aged from 7 to 12 years, and had no problem …
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Top-10 List: Our Favourite Travel Animal Experiences [ more Top-10 Lists ] This list is our own personal top-ten favourite experiences with animals based on what we have seen and experienced in our travels. We have seen so many different animals as we have travelled the world and picking just this top ten was very …
Top-10 List: Our Favourite Caravan Parks from around Australia [ more Top-10 Lists ] When travelling around Australia, the places you chose to stay at can have ab ig impact on how well you enjoy a place. We have travelled around a lot and experienced many caravan parks, and have a good idea of what …
Esperance, on the south coast of Western Australia, has some of the best beaches in Australia. But what do you do if it is too cold to go to the beach? Here are our top-10 ideas for things to do in Esperance on a cold day. Coffee Break at an Esperance Beach Lookout Visit Beach …
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Our kids have been keen to visit the iconic Wave Rock for a long time. It features regularly on tourism posters, beckoning us to visit. We hoped it lived up to their expectations. Wave Rock, in the central Western Australia wheatbelt region, is a very convenient stopover on the way from Perth to Esperance, breaking …
We were looking for a place to stop over on the journey between Esperance and Denmark, and settled on a peaceful stop in the foothills of the Porongurup Range. We stayed in our caravan at the Porongurup Range Tourist Park, but there are also cottages around the area if you want to stay somewhere a …
Australia is well known for its big things, larger-than-life objects scattered across the country, and our home state of Western Australia has its fair share of them. Here are images of those that we have visited, and a list of those that are on our wish list. You gotta collect them all! Also, check out …
The This Travel Life blog has been online for many years, but this year is the first time we have chosen to write a post reviewing our year of travel. Each year we try to hit the road as much as we can. Ironically, the year we decide to create our first Best of Travel …
Like most people around the world, we are looking forward to this coming year, hoping to get back to some form of normality, and for us regular travellers, some freedom to roam more broadly again. On New Year's Eve, we went to the beach to watch the final sunset of the year, hoping that it …
Unfortunately, we cannot ignore 2020, it did happen! This is our second annual review of our travels and the performance of our travel blog for 2020. We use this review to reflect on what we are doing with this site, comparing to how we have done previously (we did a similar review for the first …
