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Warning: This edition contains excessive adjective usage. Impressive is an understatement. In order to give Karajini the credit it’s worth, I have to describe it succinctly. I’m conscious I overuse the word amazing – which is exactly what it is. Absolutely amazing. It’s so grand, it’s majestic, magnificent, beautiful – visually outstanding. The expanse is relentless. It just keeps on going and going and going. It is definitely spiritual – in those rare moments I’m alone in a pool without the kids shrieking their cajoulies are freezing. Floating in clear, fresh and refreshing pools, it’s cleansing, rejuvenating (maybe) slimming (wishful thinking). You just keep looking up, up and up. Those cliffs plunge 100m metres into the water. We are in absolute awe of it. It’s spectacular. Snakes alive For the kids awe is in seeing snakes. Massimo has wanted a pet snake for years and now seeing them in the wild, he’s a boy on a mission to spot them all. After the first one, a black headed python, w

We are more in-tune with colours than we ever remember being. The vibrancy of the red sand and cliffs in stark contrast against the greenery and blue sky. This is how I’ll remember Francois Peron National Park. We’ve seen flocks of green birds and in the waters of Coral Bay, green fish. Others that are neon blue, fluoro yellow, so silver, the darkest of reds, and the brightest of reds. Colours you never expect to see and sceneries that are constantly changing - purely amazing. The next one too, in a totally different way. We've been in crystal clear beach waters and murky artesian bore water spas at 40 degrees boiling Rio's cajoulies off and Johnny wondering how they make drill bits long enough to reach the 540m depth it comes from. Marine Life Rio has been enthralled by the marine life and animals – sharks, stingrays, an emu, an echidna – he says it was too fast to take a photo of it, like Sonic the Hedgehog. Our home schooling excursion to the Ocean Park Marina was such a wel

Storyteller    Johnny says I’m a story teller, that I exaggerate things. It makes a good story. My best friend Nathalie says, don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story.  Just so you know, I don’t make things up. In my mind it was 500 fish jumping out of the water, not 50. It was amazing by the way. All these fish leaping out of the water like something under water was projecting them out of cannons. Massimo gets his storytelling from me. He says there was a billion and they were jumping two metres high. Incredible, I’ve never seen anything like it. They were mullet getting chased by tailor getting chased by a shark. Day one and a sight so amazing. I wonder what is to come if this is setting the bar. When friends asked if I was writing a blog this time, as I’ve done in the past, I said no. It all seemed like work, and I was off work. My children are making video blogs to send to their classmates (imposed by me). Johnny said once I’d get out there, my passion for writing would r