From Perth Airport it was just an easy 2 hour drive to Jurien Bay, where we rent a hotel for 4 nights.
By driving the Indian Ocean Drive up north, we could get a impression of the vast distances. Soon after leaving the city of Perth, it feels like being in the middle of nowhere. Just bushland, small trees, nearly no shadow, sanddunes … only interrupted by cadavres of kangaroos rotting in the kerbsides.
As Jurien Bay has only one supermarket with very limited offerings and we needed to get some provisions , we decided to take a trip to the next bigger town up in the north – Geraldton.
Short trip of 200km for the supermarket – but we enhanced it with some stops at nice beaches, did some swimming in the emerald green waters of the indian ocean. The journey is the reward.
What is not so good in here is the constant winds – which makes the current 40°C more convenient but also dangerous if forgetting your UV-blocker.
And the road to the smaller beaches can be “blocked” by sandheap, piled up from the dunes. I guess, that’s the reason everyone driving 4WD vehicles in here.
