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Hey travellers!

We’re Chris & Bec – The two salty sea-lovers behind Salt & Charcoal. Exploring life through the lens and living in our 4wd bus – “Bunji”. At Salt & Charcoal, you’ll find helpful travel tips, off the beaten track locations, and the inspiration, to spark your next big adventure.

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Latest Blogs

Quitting A Job You Hate To Travel And Work Remotely (In 8 Steps)September 26, 2023
Complete Guide To Kalbarri Gorges: Best Lookouts, Trails, And Tips!September 20, 2023
The 12 Best Bucket-List Tours In Exmouth: Swim With Megafauna, Snorkel, Hike And More On The Ningaloo Reef!September 18, 2023
Where To Stay In Kalbarri? Top 15 Options For ANY Budget (From Luxurious To Free Accommodation)September 7, 2023
Turtle Beach Exmouth: Ultimate Guide For Turtle-Watching In Exmouth + Top 5 Turtle ToursAugust 4, 2023
Free Things To Do in Broome: Hidden Treasures Without Spending a DimeAugust 3, 2023

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Colourful places below 👇 🌺🌈🌿🦋🌞

Colourful places below 👇 🌺🌈🌿🦋🌞

COLOUR AWARDS AUSTRALIA:

💜 Purplest lavender: Tasmania

🌸 Pinkest Lakes: SA and Kalbarri

🌹 Reddest cliffs: James Price Point and Cape Leveque

🍊 Orangest Cliffs: SA Sellicks Beach and Katherine Gorge NT

🙌 Brightest Chasms: Echidna Chasm WA, Standley Chasm NT

👀 Orangest Rocks: ULURU, Kata Tjuta and Purnululu NP WA.

🌞 Yellowest flowers: Canola Season WA and NSW

💧 Bluest water: Esperance, Exmouth, Coral Bay

🏞 Greenest Forests: Pemberton WA, NSW Blue Mountains and Victoria's Otways

💦 Clearest rockpools: South WA Yallingup and Injidup

Burnt orange and turquoise blues are our favourite. Gets us everytime 🥹

Where's you favourite colourful place?
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Save for your Kalbarri trip 💕🫶 Yesterday w

Save for your Kalbarri trip 💕🫶

Yesterday we shared Kalbarri as one of the best roadtrips you can take from Perth!

We recommend you have a few days to do the following:

1) Go to Kalbarri National Park see Z Bend & Nature's Window.

Hikes:
Loop walk (really good) 9km around the gorge where Nature's window is. Bring bathers and a pack with water etc.

Z Bend lookout and river trail. Also meant to be great.

2) See the skywalk, and go to the little cafe there!

3) Spend time about town, watch the sunset, surf if you're into it at Jake's, go to the coffee van, have a fish, check out the cafes/restaurants

4) Check out Red Bluff, Eagle Gorge and the coastal cliffs. Consider hiking the Bigurda Trail.

5) Take a trip out to Pink Lake Hutt Lagoon. Bring a picnic or floaty for your visit. The Salt water feels kinda weird but it's a rare opportunity to hop in! (Check signs first for safety rules etc)

6) Have a snorkel at blue holes.

7) Ross Graham lookout, Pot Alley Beach, Pelican Feeding, Island Rock, Natural Bridge

There's heaps more to do, including wildflowers and whale watching! 😊

Make sure you look closely at the rock colours and formations, so pretty.

6 hours drive from Perth, such a cute little town!

There's so many people who we meet who have never even heard of Kalbarri. Which seems a waste to us.

For where to stay in Kalbarri and what to do:
Our blogs are up to date with so much information to plan your visit! You can see them at saltandcharcoal.co. 😊

Last photo by the talented @sarahwentsolo ❤️

Let us know if you have any questions.
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#seewesternaustralia #wathedreamstate

Save for your trip ❤️ One of the best roadtrip

Save for your trip ❤️ One of the best roadtrips from Perth.

Kalbarri deserves more hype we think. One of our favourites!

Things to do:
🌊 Jake's for surfing
🌄 Pelican Feeding
🌁 Kalbarri Skywalk
👣 Bigurda Trail Hiking
🏞 The loop track is such a good hike
🎒 Z Bend and the hikes there
🪟 Nature's window
💕 Pink Lake (Hutt Lagoon)
💦 Red Bluff
👀 Kalbarri Coastal Cliffs
🏝 Island Rock and Natural Bridge
👙 Blue holes for snorkelling
⛱️ Pot Alley beach (comments section recommendation 😍)

We recommend 4 to 5 days.

Check out our blog we have so many up to date articles about visiting Kalbarri.

Have you ever been? Or have we now convinced you to go? 😏
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The best snorkelling on the Ningaloo? Check out ou

The best snorkelling on the Ningaloo? Check out our blog saltandcharcoal.co for all our articles on the Ningaloo.

One of our favourite places in Australia. The first photo was one of the best moments ever for me swimming with that turtle 😭🫶

Best tours for snorkelling are:
- Whaleshark full day tour amazing and worth the money.
- Kayaking tour with Exmouth adventure co. So fun! Great snorkelling.
- Manta rays tours or humpback whale tours are fantastic too

Muiron Islands is an incredible but a bigger tour/trip as you need a big boat to get there.

The Navy Pier Dive is world class for diving.

For the BEST snorkelling experiences:
Go out with your boat or a local/friend/guide or go remote camping around the stations.

This has been our best snorkelling experiences every time.

Otherwise our top picks for snorkelling from the beach are:
- Turquoise Bay (to the left drift snorkel)
- Lakeside (straight offshore, 15 minute walk from carpark)
- Osprey Bay kayak to the awesome spot or take a tour out there (otherwise snorkel off the beach lots of turtles coming through)
- Bundegi beach you can paddle board out to a good spot
- Oyster Stacks at high tide only 🙌

Have you snorkelled the Ningaloo Reef?
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#turtles #swimmingwithturtles🐢 #underwaterphotography #exmouthwa #underwater #oceanlife #freediving

Follow for more 🐬 Name a better rock jump? 🤔

Follow for more 🐬 Name a better rock jump? 🤔 Details below 👇

No joke - this is in my top 3 moments in life, I was buzzing with happiness when the dolphins swam underneath us!

We didn't capture the next part but basically they swam all around us, under our legs, got really close. There were lots of different sized dolphins, baby ones even! And then they swam off into the deep a few minutes later.

📍Twilight Beach, Esperance Western Australia

Please if you go here, leave it more beautiful than you found it 😍

Reminiscing on this insane experience with @haz_and_loz who caught this stunning drone footage. We left our drone at home this day and are full of regret 😅

Would you jump off this rock? 🤔
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Save for your trip 🔐 Where the forest meets the

Save for your trip 🔐 Where the forest meets the sea 🌊 🌲

For huge trees in Australia.... Otway National Park really delivers 🌲🌲🌲

Great Ocean Road Photo Locations ✨️
1) Redwoods, Otway National Park
2) Hopetoun Falls
3) Apollo Bay Area
4) Portland
5) Peterborough to Princetown has many of these along the coast
6) Griffiths Island Area Port Fairy (don't miss the lighthouse)
7) Gibson Steps
8) Hopetoun Falls Walk
9 & 10) Redwoods Otways

There's Sooo much more to see though...

Which is your favourite photo? 📸

We drove the Great Ocean Road in autumn/winter and had beautiful weather (which is apparently quite unusual?)
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#redwoodsotways #californianredwoods
#australianforest #otwaysvictoria #thisisvictoria #visitvictoria

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