Tuesday...29 November 2011

Ok so this morning the boys were up bright and early to finally finish the shed. This is the shed they built last year and completed this year and then decided to add an extension to......
Great idea until the metal merchant only sent half the steel order then mucked them around for another two weeks on back order. Then the carrier thought they may not mind waiting a few more days because this would mean he did not have to take his fuel guzzling truck out of the shed until he had a few more big orders to deliver, well no mate, we want it yesterday please!
So after waiting two weeks they got the final bits needed yesterday and then went like the clappers to finish this shed ahead of our planned departure today and the rain the weather bureau promised for today too. They nearly made it but the wind and light beat them last night and they had to put off two bits of steel and a couple of screws until today. But lo and behold it is finally finished and it is a work of art and testament to the engineering skills of these two tired tradesmen, who are mightily pleased with themselves as they should be. And no rain!
Quick cuppa and then it was time for us to hit the road.
First stop was the local dump point where we found two girls travelling together and by the look of it living in their el cheapo bomb of a car. They were parked next to the dump point near a public toilet building where they had apparently done their washing by hand and had a bit of a top and tail themselves. We asked if they were going to be long as they were blocking our access to the dump point. No no they said, we will move straight away we were nearly ready to go now anyway. So they shut the boot, jumped into their car .........and jumped right back out again. Seems the car keys were now locked inside the boot!!!
They searched their entire car. They had freshly washed and wet underwear hanging from the back door windows, they had more washing laid along the back window ledge, they had bags of groceries on the floor in the back along with cooking pots and rubbish bags and clean clothes and hand bags and laptops and assorted female bits all over the backseat along with beach towels and bikinis. There was more 'stuff' in the front passenger seat well. How these two even fitted into the car remains a mystery. However there they were, not going anywhere and blocking our access to the desperately needed dump point.
Himself fiddled and tried all manner of normal ways to open the boot. He was eventually triumphant when one of our many car and caravan keys wriggled just the right way opened their boot and there was the missing car keys but how they found anything in that boot is beyond me. Neither girl owned a bag or suitcase, all their clothes had been thrown higgldy piggldy loose into the boot which was full full full!!!!!
Never mind,  they left, and we were able to unload some seriously unwanted excess baggage of our own and be on our way.
Now would be a good time to mention the wonderfully relaxing time we had in Kalbarri. Our friends were great hosts and really looked after us. Our thanks to them.
We had a late lunch in Geraldton and came on down to Dongara by mid afternoon. The wind was quite blowy the entire 250kms. It seems to have settled down a bit as I write but it is still technically blowing out there even now.
Took forever to find my high school girlfriend here in Dongara,  she had gone off to do some shopping with another of her friends. However when we did catch up with her she insisted on cooking us dinner which was very nice and served with some nice wine. Her two dogs were well behaved while we were there which surprised her. We will drop in again tomorrow on our way down the road again.