STA Explorer Martin – Getting Away From it All – is still making use of his working holiday visa in Kununurra, Australia and has, depending on you disposition toward spectacular weather, been ‘treated’ to a sensational lightning storm!

Martin always performs well with a camera in hand and, as you can tell from the images I’ve picked out from his Flickr set, capturing the electrical storm proved no different.

If you’ve got some double awesome weather imagery or tales from your time travelling get in touch and let us know by commenting below or tweeting @statravelbuzz.

Former Earn Your Striper and current STA Explorer Martin has updated in the form of a Flickr photo set from Kununurra, Australia.

Situated in Western Australia Kununurra is a farming town and proves a popular destination for tourists due to the surrounding scenery. It also has a Celebrity Tree Park where celebs plant trees – according to the park’s website,

“HRH Princess Anne’s contribution is just yards from Rolf Harris’ which itself is a short stroll from Baz Luhrmann’s.”

And from looking at Martin’s photographs, Kununurra also does alright in the spectacular sunset stakes.

After meeting up in Melbourne, our ‘stripers’ used their newly acquired free time to journey to the Wilsons Promontory National Park in Victoria. Martin and Romy set the pace during the climb up Mt. Oberon and as Martin says they were the first climbers to take in the spectacular scenery.

“[We] ended up arriving a good 15 minutes before anyone else, so sat up on the top eating lunch and looking at the great views”

Unfortunately on the way down the heavens opened, and oddly enough, due to their altitude the boys got a drenching from inside the cloud.

“We got rained on to start with from within the cloud as we were up at the same height as it, a new experience for Romy who had not been in a cloud before.”

For more on the climb, and to find out where ‘Squeaky Beach’ gets its name from, head over to Martin’s Blog.