A guide to Australia's West Coast for all free-spirited travellers wishing to get the most out of this huge slice of down under.
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"Comprehensive, practical & buzzing with enthusiasm, this travel guide will have you planning your trip within minutes of opening it up!" West Australian"
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Andrew now lives in Western Australia having married the girl he met over the photocopier on his Oz trip no.3. Always an Aussiephile, he is as close to a natural born Aussie as you can get, revelling in the outdoor and adventure lifestyle. Katrina has led a nomadic life encompassing living and travelling in Thailand, New Zealand, the UK and Australia. In between all the travelling she has been based in Perth where she did her studying. Her main interests lie in the areas of Australian literature, art and history. She is also no.1 'adventure' travel fan having tackled so far, snorkelling with whalesharks, skydiving, climbing, kayaking, trekking, hang-gliding etc!
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This review is from: West Coast Australia, 2nd (Footprint - Travel Guides) (Paperback)
If you ever have the time to visit Western Australia, the book can be a good guide to its vastness. The state is twice the size of Alaska, with scarcely 2 million people. And over half of these are in the Perth metropolitan area.
The book's coverage of Perth and Fremantle isn't bad. Describing places like Kings Park, with a magnificent view of the Swan River and the CBD. The city is basically as clean and safe as portrayed by the authors. Travel books are typically panglossian. Skipping carefully over the slums and bad aspects of a city. Since such books are sold to people going to a region. But the synopsis of Perth is accurate. The south west has a slightly cooler climate. The grape growing in the Margaret River district is explained as world renowned. While if you do venture north of Perth, the photos in the book illustrate the desolate beauty of the coastline. The outback stretches to the Indian Ocean. The mining towns of Tom Price and Newman are shown. Important in the global sense, for a lot of iron ore mined from here gets exported; mainly to Asia.
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grassy foreshore, cheap light lunches, gold coin donation, cheap counter meals, snorkel hire, inland gorges, eating price codes, karri trees, karri forest, shire office, central suburbs, colour map, caravan park, unsealed roads, snorkelling trips, interpretative centre, pavement tables, bike hire, old gaol, pearl farm, discovery centre, other listings, dot paintings, wine area, ancestral beings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Margaret River, Port Hedland, Coral Bay, Cable Beach, Monkey Mia, Shark Bay, Swan Valley, Tom Price, Bussell Highway, Marine Terr, Marble Bar, Ningaloo Reef, South Terr, East Perth, New Norcia, Stirling Range, Thomson Bay, Western Australia, Cape Naturaliste, Great Northern Highway, Kings Park, Stirling Terr, South Perth, Port Denison, Brand Highway New!
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grassy foreshore, cheap light lunches, gold coin donation, cheap counter meals, snorkel hire, inland gorges, eating price codes, karri trees, karri forest, shire office, central suburbs, colour map, caravan park, unsealed roads, snorkelling trips, interpretative centre, pavement tables, bike hire, old gaol, pearl farm, discovery centre, other listings, dot paintings, wine area, ancestral beings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Margaret River, Port Hedland, Coral Bay, Cable Beach, Monkey Mia, Shark Bay, Swan Valley, Tom Price, Bussell Highway, Marine Terr, Marble Bar, Ningaloo Reef, South Terr, East Perth, New Norcia, Stirling Range, Thomson Bay, Western Australia, Cape Naturaliste, Great Northern Highway, Kings Park, Stirling Terr, South Perth, Port Denison, Brand Highway New!
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- Footprint West Coast Australia Handbook by Andrew Swaffer in Back Matter
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