Surprise surprise, we got out of a park before 10am!! Up early and organised enough to make it through the packing stage without tantrums and still happy by departure, my my things are going well.......
If you go to Mandurah do stay at the Mandurah Caravan and Tourist Park, the folk that own and run it are wonderful. Very welcoming, bend over backward to be helpful and they even remember your name. Simply marvellous people who are a credit to the caravan park industry. If only more were like them!
Nice days driving, a bit on the warm side but still a nice day. Only 40C. We even found a user friendly public dump point that was accessable in Pinjarra.
The scenery today was varied. We started with a nice gentle mountain climb. Lots of State Forest trees and appropriate signage. Was good, I did NOT hit any panic buttons (sorry BB), it genuinely was a gentle (ish) climb over the tail end of the Darling Ranges to the never ending broad acre wheat country on the other side.
We passed all sorts of interesting little country townships to finally end up in Lake Grace on our way to Esperance tomorrow.
Lake Grace is one of those towns with a main street, a couple of pubs, a shire office and not much else, oops hang on I forgot to mention the obligatory wheat silo......and the train line to carry all that wheat to a port somewhere for export!!!
Tomorrow we will pass through Newdegate, site of the biggest field days in WA on our way to Esperance. Never been to Esperance so really looking forward to that.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
21 February 2012
Moving day tomorrow. We had planned to go south but there is a big bushfire between us and our destination, so will reverse the planned route and go east first then south later when the fire is safely out. This is the same fire that blanketed Perth in smoke late last week. The smoke cleared so we thought it was out. The television reception here is pretty ordinary, in fact it is downright woeful, all we get is crackle and pixilation most of the time, so we rely on the internet for our news, and it is telling us there have been evacuations and all hell is breaking loose so we will stay as far from there as we can for now. 28,000 hectares is not just someones back paddock, well it would be if we were up north, but down here that is a sizeable chunk of territory most of which is national park or blue gum forestry projects. Lots of fuel for a fire.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
19 February 2012
Due to move tomorrow but we like it here so are going to stay a bit longer! Nothing like the peace and quiet of the country. We even have two chooks scratching around under the van most days. I offered them a nice warm bed in my turbo oven but they clucked off!
Friday, February 17, 2012
17 February 2012
Grrr, wishes people would give clear, concise, simple, easy to understand directions??? Today we were given bad directions by a Tourist Information Centre. They really should know what is in the town before being allowed to send visitors up the garden path! No we did not misunderstand! I always thought their job was to make visitors feel welcome in their district. This particular person just wanted to clear her queue so that she could go to lunch, heaven forbid one of the great unwashed should actually be worthy of her attention or get the a hint of a smile. Oh well you live and learn.
We took a little (cough hic hic cough) drive through the country today. We went to Pinjarra then took the road less travelled to Bunbury via Harvey and Brunswich Junction. In Bunbury we drove around in circles trying to locate a particular shopping centre, eventually stumbling upon it despite the old hags misdirection only to find it was not what we wanted. We gave up and drove back to Secret Harbour to visit our old friends from Kalbarri who are in town doing some visiting of their own.
Was a long days touring. Very pleased to see camp tonight. Hoping we get a sleep in tomorrow.....
We took a little (cough hic hic cough) drive through the country today. We went to Pinjarra then took the road less travelled to Bunbury via Harvey and Brunswich Junction. In Bunbury we drove around in circles trying to locate a particular shopping centre, eventually stumbling upon it despite the old hags misdirection only to find it was not what we wanted. We gave up and drove back to Secret Harbour to visit our old friends from Kalbarri who are in town doing some visiting of their own.
Was a long days touring. Very pleased to see camp tonight. Hoping we get a sleep in tomorrow.....
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
15 February 2012
Spent the day in camp being bone lazy.
Had a super long sleep in then got going and did a spot of washing. While that was drying I read a book cover to cover and cooked a roast dinner. Himself played a few computer games and that is really about all we achieved today.
Maybe tomorrow we will feel more like playing tourist!
Funny how life goes. Here we are out in the country and all we want to do is sleep. I wonder if we are playing catch up for all that city noise???
Had a super long sleep in then got going and did a spot of washing. While that was drying I read a book cover to cover and cooked a roast dinner. Himself played a few computer games and that is really about all we achieved today.
Maybe tomorrow we will feel more like playing tourist!
Funny how life goes. Here we are out in the country and all we want to do is sleep. I wonder if we are playing catch up for all that city noise???
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
14 February 2012
I know I already posted on this date, I am NOT having a meltdown, look at the time lines and you will see that the earlier post was really about yesterday.
Today we slept late, so nice to be out in the country with the country peace and quiet versus the constant air traffic at the last stop, then did as little as possible for the morning followed by a trip to the local shops around lunchtime to find food, I had lasagne, Himself of course had fish and chips, then it was into some serious shopping. My favourite store was having a nothing over $20 sale so bought a couple of tops then we raided the grocery store. Seems someone (me) did not look when turning the fridge back on after our travels yesterday and hit the wrong button which means it did not actually turn on but instead spent all day yesterday and most of last night turned off! Bugger! Found it totally defrosted and all the food at room temperature at 3.00am when I opened it for a cold drink. Huge donation to the rubbish bins this morning and a trip to the shops to restock the blessed thing. Lesson learned. Do not allow oneself to be distracted when breaking camp and double check everything when making camp at the next stop. Much more of this can become expensive!!!
Over the fence beside our camp we have two bull arab dogs, a shetland pony and assorted chooks. Up above us in the very very shady trees we have so far seen assorted warblers and parrots. On the way to the rubbish bin this morning I was bitten in broad daylight by at least 5 mosquitos. The blurb from the office suggests we watch where we walk during summer as the local wildlife includes bandicoots and dugites and tigers.... An interesting assortment. Guess we is genuinely out of the city limits now.
Today we slept late, so nice to be out in the country with the country peace and quiet versus the constant air traffic at the last stop, then did as little as possible for the morning followed by a trip to the local shops around lunchtime to find food, I had lasagne, Himself of course had fish and chips, then it was into some serious shopping. My favourite store was having a nothing over $20 sale so bought a couple of tops then we raided the grocery store. Seems someone (me) did not look when turning the fridge back on after our travels yesterday and hit the wrong button which means it did not actually turn on but instead spent all day yesterday and most of last night turned off! Bugger! Found it totally defrosted and all the food at room temperature at 3.00am when I opened it for a cold drink. Huge donation to the rubbish bins this morning and a trip to the shops to restock the blessed thing. Lesson learned. Do not allow oneself to be distracted when breaking camp and double check everything when making camp at the next stop. Much more of this can become expensive!!!
Over the fence beside our camp we have two bull arab dogs, a shetland pony and assorted chooks. Up above us in the very very shady trees we have so far seen assorted warblers and parrots. On the way to the rubbish bin this morning I was bitten in broad daylight by at least 5 mosquitos. The blurb from the office suggests we watch where we walk during summer as the local wildlife includes bandicoots and dugites and tigers.... An interesting assortment. Guess we is genuinely out of the city limits now.
14 February 2012
Couldn't decide if I really wanted to keep doing this blog, so took a break over the Xmas holidays.
Hey even the dedicated get tired occasionally....
We spent two and a half months in Perth, been there, done that.
Its sort of nice being back where you know how to find everything, but if you stay long enough in any one place you eventually begin to remember why you left!
Yesterday we hitched up our wagon and hit the open road again.
Stay tuned, maybe we will all get a laugh out of this years travels.
Hey even the dedicated get tired occasionally....
We spent two and a half months in Perth, been there, done that.
Its sort of nice being back where you know how to find everything, but if you stay long enough in any one place you eventually begin to remember why you left!
Yesterday we hitched up our wagon and hit the open road again.
Stay tuned, maybe we will all get a laugh out of this years travels.
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