Out the back with Jack…
The stories behind the images…
The first ‘Jack’ was my beloved 2015 Jeep Wrangler Overland and, with my camera and a fleet of drones, we have explored many places together.
The spirit of Jack has now moved to my new vehicle, a 2025 Toyota LandCruiser Troopcarrier, or Troopy as they’re well known as,
and the adventures continue…
Magic moments…
Those magical mornings, while camping out there, when you’re blessed with the perfect conditions to catch the early morning light…
Out the gate…
After a few false starts over the last quite a while, it was with a lot of glee (and a bit of help to be fair) that Jilly was finally out the gate and hooked up behind Jack for a weekend away.
Not just any weekend away though, one that had been booked several months ago, one that gets a pretty big tick on the Western Australian rodeo circuit…
Impressed…
Just as we find beautiful lone trees that cause us to stop and stare… and appreciate, so too are there trees of a slightly different kind, ones found stamped into the land or washed into sand by tidal flow…
Down the dirt road…
I have fond memories of this road, it’s the only road to a salt lake I’m particularly fond of, and my most recent experience on it was racing down it in the night to escape a bushfire that had swung around to head in our direction. I was following another vehicle that was camped where I had intended to camp too.
A different pace…
Stepping out of the little rustic caravan the morning air smells fresh and green, a synergy of peppermint trees and flowers, the scent of spring… the ground covered with a carpet of green grass sprinkled with tiny white daisies and clumps of freesias…
...an idyllic oasis down in the South West of Western Australia.
Ten years on…
I rolled into Perth 10 years ago today… I reached this most isolated city in the world in my much loved Jeep Compass (Tibby) towing a trailer with all my belongings, behind me. I thought I’d probably be here for a couple of years…. maybe….