Monthly Winners

Coming into our 30's, everyone around us was having babies. It was now or never to do the trip of a lifetime. Fly to Perth, hire an Apollo Camper and tour the Western Australian coast. We made it to Esperance for Christmas day on the beach. Then through Albany, Denmark, Cape Leeuwin, Yallingup & Margaret River to Busselton for New Years Eve. Next stop Sandy Cape (just north of Jurien Bay) & on to Ningaloo Reef, Exmouth. We were getting very used to being able to pull up where ever we wanted and having awesome views from our dinner table/bed/toilet!!

After spending 4 nights on the Exmouth Cape we started heading south again; here's the best bit, Coral Bay.  At our caravan park we met a guy called Rick. Great guy who offered to take us fishing in his tinny. Awesome, caught 3......2 & half mackerel.

I was keen to see the turtles at sunset so without telling me, Rick and Nick (my partner), sussed out a spot on a cliff top to take a photo.....so I'm on the edge of a cliff, sunset to the left of me, thunderstorm to the right and Nick on one knee in front of me proposing!! It caught me completely by surprise and I of course said yes! How many people are able to catch a photo of this moment? .....Magic!

The rest of our trip was just as great. Stopping where ever we wanted in our Apollo bus...Monkey Mia, Kalbarri, Swan River. Beautiful. Throughout this trip we encountered Carnarvon floods (twice), Pemberton fire, Lake Clifton fire and the threat of Cyclone Vince but the flexibility of our Euro Tourer meant we weren't locked into accommodation. Thankyou to the outstanding team of Apollo people, especially Perth depot for making it all possible. What better way to start a new life together?!

From Brisbane, we drove this monster to Sydney. It can sleep six, and it was almost new. It had to be relocated, so we got a fairly good deal on it.

My favorite: navigating cities and parking.
Also: cool showers inside the camper (!) before sleeping.

Despite often careless Australian signposting, we delivered this rolling castle without a scratch, and 25 minutes before the agreed time (we had it for six days).