Thursday, 21 July 2016

WA - we have made it!

Hello fellow travellers, no doubt you thought I might have skipped out on you as I haven't been able to write a post for some time. Rest assured, all is good and I finally have some decent weather, Internet and time available.
To say our trip across the Nullabor was uneventful would be technically correct. We had good travelling, albeit a tad slow at times waiting on the 'old bloke' behind to catch up as he was either trying to conserve fuel or concentrating on his game of 'patience', while driving I might add!
Nevertheless we made it and spent a few nights on the open road with a lovely fire or dribbling rain as our companion, finally arriving in Norseman ( which I consider the 'real' start of Western Australia, the rest is just the 'wild west'.)
Not all that much wildlife only the few wedge-tailed Eagles and emus to keep us amused, beside the never ending stream of 'road-kill' - kangaroo, cow etc. Road signs are quite amusing as we have camels at times, then replaced by cows, to then be replaced by emus. The only common animal seems to be the kangaroo.
As I've said, we are now in WA and after leaving Robin in Esperance for a few days, to give the bakery a tongue- lashing: those seafood pies are delicious, I'm told, we are now only 150kms south east of Perth. Camped at another lovely spot, out of the wind and rain at an old school site Kulyaling, we will venture into the capital of WA tomorrow and catch up with all the clan on the bike ride, along with all the domestic chores that have to be done.
We came through a wonderful little place today that had a tractor museum, keeping Paul amused with the crazy stuff these farmers got up to years ago when clearing the land. Grain is grown on a massive scale here in the west, with nearly every farm having crops of one sort or the other growing. Wheat, canola, lupins etc, it's all here.
We also came through the place where Donald Campbell raced his famous Bluebird to set the fastest world record on water. The lake is massive but just reminds me of what Lake Mungo may have been back 50,000 years ago: I wonder will this one ever become dry like that in years to come?
I will put some more pictures up when in Perth and connected to a computer, as I still haven't found how to do it on an iPad.
See you for now. Look out Perth, here we come!

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