Posts Tagged ‘Western Australia’

Day 9, Dongara/Denison

A roadside sign we passed on our drive up from Perth to Geraldton had claimed that the best pies were to be found at the Dongara Bakery on Waldeck Street, and now that we were in the vicinity we were keen to test that claim. We headed straight to the bakery to get breakfast on […]

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Day 8 – Arrival in Dongara/Denison

We’d always planned to stay for a week in Geraldton and spend the last couple of nights in Dongara (Dongara is 65km from Geraldton), and so on Monday morning we packed all our gear back into the car and got back on the road again. We stopped along the way so I could take photos […]

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Geraldton, Day 7

Our plan for Sunday was: 1) check out the Markets on the Mall, at Marine Terrace. 2) Grab some breakfast. 3) Drive to the Chapman Valley Fishing Park. So first, the Markets on the Mall. I overheard one of the stallholders saying that he thought the markets were a little quieter than usual – his […]

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Geraldton, Day 6

The highlight of Day 6 was our dinner at The Boatshed Restaurant. I was really looking forward to eating at The Boatshed after seeing a number of adverts in various Geraldton/Coral Coast brochures/maps when we were planning our holiday. I rang on Friday night to make a reservation for Saturday – ordinarily I would’ve rung […]

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Geraldton, Day 5

Note: fsck! I just typed a long post about Day 5 and then had an unco keyboard moment and lost the lot. I am now re-typing the post. Fsck, fsck, fsck. On Friday, we decided to just hang out and relax. The cricket was on TV (I loooooooooove cricket), and we had books to read […]

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Geraldton, Day 4

And so, on Day 4 of our Geraldton jaunt, we packed a picnic brunch and drove to the Greenough River Mouth, which we were told was a good fishing spot. We were both hungry when we arrived (I suppose you’ve come to expect that) and so we spread the food out on a wooden bench […]

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Geraldton, Day 3

On Wednesday we went on the live lobster factory tour at the Geraldton Fishermen’s Co-operative. We got there nice and early, well before the 9:30 am start time. As we waited, I took a few shots of my surroundings:      Throughout this post I will be writing about lobsters – even though the beasties are […]

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Geraldton, Day 2

We took it pretty easy on Tuesday. Honestly, with all the packing and organising we had to do before we went on holiday, we were positively knackered and just wanted to relax and do not much. We slept in and then went for a walk on the beach. It was pretty overcast, as you can […]

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Geraldton, Day 1

After what seemed like an eternity of packing and getting organised, the first day of our holiday finally arrived. We left extra biccies in the cats’ bowls, kissed them goodbye and left sometime after 7am on the 27th of November. The plan was to drive a couple of hours and stop for breakfast somewhere along […]

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