travellingcogs

Geography lessons made easy, travelling family

When your from the west coast of Australia but never actually visited the most western point of the continent before you left on a travelling adventure and when...

Learning in peaceful paradise, Carnarvon blowholes WA

Wow is been so long since I've had the time to update this blog! Apologies for such a delay, I have a copious amount of glorious photos and travels to share! Ou...

Coral Bay and Exmouth Western Australia

Now this is the place where I wish I had an underwater camera!! Everytime I've been here I'm breathtaken by the beautiful reef, white sand and turquoise waters....

The power of water, Kimberley Floods

Wet season 2023 in the Kimberley, Western Australia. Each year the Kimberley region sees monsoonal rains in the summer months. After spending half my lifetime i...

Broome, Western Australia

Broome holds a special place in our hearts, the red dirt, turquoise waters, white sand and amazing sunsets will never grow old. This place is where 'we' began! ...

Boating on the Ord River, Kununurra WA

We were blessed to be able to go out for a day up the Ord River with a friend on the boat! What a lovely experience, nature at its finest! Although over the yea...

Lake Argyle Western Australia

Western Australia largest lake and the second largest in Australia, Lake Argyle is a beautiful place to explore. In dry season, it's a popular tourist attractio...

Beautiful weekend at Secret Springs, Western Australia

Oh so blissful!! We went exploring not knowing what to expect, but when we found Secret Springs we didn't want to leave. This stunning place was so peaceful and...

Can we have excursions every day please?

I feel like most days you can create an 'excursion day' even if your not going out. I've yet to homeschool older children, as mine are all still young, but even...

The epic journey of almost 4500 kilometres in a few days

Some of you may have noticed that I have taken a little break from blogging in the past couple of weeks, our lives have still been full of interesting new place...

Thursday Island and Seisia, Queensland

Exploring Thursday Island for the day was pretty exciting. We didn't book a tour, just took the ferry over from Seisia on Australia's mainland. With 6 young chi...

The most northern part of the Australian continent, Cape York

We made it! Yes, it's the slogan everyone uses when travelling the long dusty bumpy road up to the most northern part of Australia and so as much as I don't lik...

Jardine River and Cape York Australia (part 3)

Cruising across the Jardine Ferry! Woohoo! Once you get to the Jardine River ferry crossing you feel like your on the home run to the most northern tip of Austr...

Trip to the tip of Australia! Cape York part 2

The old Telegraph Track on the Cape York Peninsula is a ruggard rough 4WDing only track, we only did a small section of the track to get to an absolutly beautif...

Trip to the tip of Australia! Cape York part 1

It's the thing to do! A bucket list 'must do' for a lot of people. For us, the dusty and rough corrugated road trip to Cape York was more so to have a much need...

How nature can help with stress and overstimulation

Let's talk about over stimulating your brain! Your brain can be overstimulated but you might not recognise or know it. Or sometimes you may be aware of it but a...

Fathers day weekend in tropical paradise

Yes I'm a little late in posting about our fathers day weekend, it's been a whirlwind of events and very little mobile phone reception ever since this weekend a...

Airlie Beach in north Queensland, Australia

A glorious relaxing weekend in Airlie Beach, tropical paradise. People often ask what our favourite place is around Australia, the truth is we don't really have...

A week of birthdays in Elliot Heads and surrounding areas

Two weeks of birthdays, beaches and bush camps. When 4 family members have birthdays almost all in the same week why not celebrate in style. Poppy came to visit...

A winter weekend in Yeppoon QLD

Ah Bliss!!! We open our eyes at 6.30am, the sun is shining and it's blue sky's all around. What a perfect winters day! After a long drive the previous day, from...