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And it was worth every kilometre!

Back in 2015 I took 3 weeks off work to get away from society and experience the Western Australian outback on my own.

I hired a 4WD, packed it full of food, beer and camping gear and started driving north. I went straight through the middle of Western Australia from Perth until I hit the northern coast. And from there I made my way back down to Perth along the coastline.

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This was by far the best driving holiday that I have ever taken. I drove roads where I wouldn't see another car for hours on end, I slept under the stars every night in my swag, I went days without speaking a word, and I saw the most amazing landscapes and wildlife that I have ever seen.

_{The Chiming Wedgebill, they have the strangest call.}

_{The White Bellied Sea Eagle was one of the species I was chasing while on this trip. I found him outside of Exmouth and hiked 1.5 kilometres barefoot across a mudflat to catch this photo.}

_{I took this photo of a Variegated Fairy Wren at dawn on a beach near Port Hedland. This was the first photo of the day and the best one by far.}

_{This is a proud Dad feeding his juvenile Masked Wood Swallow. I found these two at Hamelin Pool.}

_{A Crimson Chat, quite common but I'd been wanting a chance to photograph them again for a long time. This bird is one of the reasons I became a little obsessed with wildlife photography. It was the first species that I ever photographed so I was incredibly pleased to find them again at Hamelin Pool.}

This type of trip is incredibly refreshing for the mind and body. And while I may have returned home looking as if I'd been sleeping in a gutter for weeks, I felt like a new person and ready to face the real world once again. It's these types of trips that I live for. And it's high time I started planning the next one.

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