This section of our California road trip route along the coast was one of our favourite days – it offers the opportunity to drive on the beach across extensive sand dunes, look for sea otters in the kelp of Morro Bay, watch Elephant Seals cuddling and fighting on the beach, and to...
As part of our Pacific Northwest road trip, we booked a sea kayaking tour in search of orcas who roam the Salish sea routes of the San Juan Islands, USA. The promotional materials for the kayak tours show wonderful photographs of majestic orcas swimming past and breaching near enthralled...
Tofino, British Columbia, is an absolute treasure. In fact, it could be my favourite destination of all time (so far). It takes a special effort to reach Tofino as it is literally ‘at the end of the road’ on Vancouver Island, so you are never just passing through. We made Tofino a...
Rottnest Island (‘Rotto’), or Wadjemup to use its indigenous name, is one of the most beautiful places we visited on our road trip from Perth in Western Australia. Although Rottnest has a very dark history, being a place to which Aboriginal people were banished between 1838 and 1931 when...
As reluctant as we were to leave beautiful Margaret River, we needed to head off towards Denmark, the next destination on our road trip from Perth, Western Australia. The total drive time for the day was 3.5 hours, so we planned in several pit stops along the way. Little did we know what...
For I long time, I hoped to see Killer Whales (Orcas) in the wild. With this in mind, we once booked a sea kayaking trip in the San Juan islands, billed as one of the best places to see Killer Whales in the USA, however, sadly the whales did not show up for us on that occasion. So, when...