Some of the tracks and places I've been in Australia

• Most places in the Kalgoorlie goldfields area.
  It's one of my favourite areas to visit for a short 1 - 2 week jaunt.
  It's my original birthplace and where my father worked as a miner for many years.
  Draw a box from Laverton down to the transline, west to Southern Cross,
  NNW to Paynes Find and back to Laverton and we've probably been there.
• Kimberlies (3 times):
  • Mitchell Plateau and Mitchell Falls and down to the coast at Port Warrender (what port?). We even visited Myres Island where the ashes of one of the first modern day surveyors of the Mitchell Plateau was placed. We also went up the Lawley river until we hit fresh water at a little water fall. The return boat trip was interesting - the tide had gone out....mud flats, crocodiles and stone fish are not my idea of fun when pulling a dingy.
  • Gibb River road and the Wyndham-Karunjie back road to Wyndham just after the Pentecost River crossing - it's a nice alternative (there are croc's in the river!). I have a great story about the first time we camped on the shore of the Pentecost ('87) - we are pretty sure that we saw the light at night of a serial murderer (German guy) that was trying to dump the bodies of his latest victims on the other side. This guy had been stalking tourists and shooting them. It was one of those rare nights that we had a dark & quiet camp, no fire going and we were just sitting quietly watching the river etc. We didn't know what was going on at the time, we just saw a torch light and so fired up our 24V BIG spotlight and pointed it over his side (maybe 1/4 mile away) thinking we had some camping buddies over there. The light went out and we heard nothing the rest of the night. A week or so later we found out that a couple of bodies had been dumped on the river edge apparently in a panic... Glad we were on the other side of the river and a couple of miles in and off the main track.
  • Bungle Bungles via the back road from Turkey Creek. On my last visit via the official road in, it appears that our friends from the National Parks have 'removed' evidence of this back road ;-(

• Ayres rock (on a trip up to the Kimberlies, to NT and then to Alice) and back to Perth via Warburton. We had 3 aborigines on the roof rack (on top of the food box etc) doing 80km/hr for a couple of hours - they ran out of fuel and wanted a lift to Cosmo Newberry. This was mid-winter - never seen blue aborigines before ;-)
• Canning stock route from Wiluna up to the turnoff to Newman (where my mate worked) and out via Rudall River National Park using a neat track that goes past Hanging Rock and through Meeting Gorge.
• Pilbara (many times):
  • Newman area, Weeli Wolli Creek, Burranbar pool (on the Savory Creek - memorable on the Canning Stock route at Lake Disappointment where it starts).
  • Carawine gorge upper and lower (via Shay Gap and out to Nullagine).
  • Rudall River National Park and then out by the back track via Hanging Rock and Meeting gorge that comes out north of Balfour downs.
  • Wittenoom gorge area.
  • Top of Mt Meharry - tallest mountain in W.A. - what a joke... good view though.
• Kennedy Ranges - interesting area (an escarpment that has sand dunes on top) and very few people if any.
• Mt Augustus - ho hum - an excuse for the local homestead to charge money for camping etc...
• Up and down the coast highway - too many people.