Day 50 Saturday 25th April 2015 Anzac Day Windy clear Coronation Beach to Kalbarri The wind gusted through the night again making for fitful sleep. I sweep up 24 dead flies plus body parts and another in Woody’s shoe. Twenty … Continue reading Go West, Day 50 – Kalbarri
Day 49 Friday 24th April 2015 Coronation Beach The wind comes in fierce gusts during the night so it’s all hands on deck to get the awning in. Woody wakes early and tries the hot water service again to no avail and now the fridge has gone out because the wind has changed direction. We decamp quickly and head back into Geraldton to Batavia Coast Caravans. In an hour the hot water service problem is identified and a new ignition control board has been installed. The positioning of the control board in a small box on the floor pretty well … Continue reading Go West, Day 49 – Coronation Beach
Day 48 Thursday 23rd April 2015 Geraldton to Coronation Beach Land sakes! The Ollies are up and off before us! That’s a first. We drive 25 kms north to Coronation Beach campground. It is quite a sight, the blue of the ocean, lines of breakers and the surf crashing in. People stroll about lazily, their heads encased in fly nets. Geraldton can be seen away to the south. There are a limited number of sites here tucked in amongst the shrubbery so one must be early to secure a spot. The narrow beach overlooks a lagoon sheltered by a reef … Continue reading Go West, Day 48 – Coronation Beach
Day 47 Wednesday 22nd April 2015 Geraldton We give ourselves a lazy day to get supplies before we go to more remote places. In other words let’s have a retail fix, Bunnings, Super Cheap Auto and Shirley Temple wants to … Continue reading Go West, Day 47 – Geraldton
Day 46 Tuesday 21st April 2015 Dongara to Geraldton It is a perfectly warm night to have the windows and hatches open and we listen to the crash of the waves against the rock wall as we fall asleep. I … Continue reading Go West, Day 46 – Geraldton
Day 45 Monday 20th April 2015 Nambung Station to Dongara The shower was refreshing, I reach for a nice warm towel and as I dry myself I realise that ants have nested in it overnight and now I’m being bitten from head to toe. Ouch. Nambung owner Brian rolls up in his ute and apologises for the 30 knot winds. It turns out that he had wanted to surprise us with a flight over his property in his plane. What a nice guy he is. We get away at 10:30 and already it is 25 degrees. We have lunch at … Continue reading Go West, Day 45 – Dongara
Day 44 Sunday 19th April 2015 Nambung Station, Cervantes Once more I sweep the dead flies, live ants and inert sand out of the van. Ah, life on the road. Nambung has captured our imagination and we’ve decided to stay … Continue reading Go West, Day 44 – Nambung Station
Day 43 Saturday 18th 2015 New Norcia to Nambung Station, Cervantes The boys cook eggs for brekkie while Shirley Temple goes off to Mass with the monks in the monastery chapel. I wander about the ‘town’ getting the feel of … Continue reading Go West, Day 43 – Nambung Station
Day 42 Friday 17th April 2015 Gwelup to New Norcia In half an hour we’ve left Perth’s neat, bright, clean and orderly suburbs behind us. The road is quite narrow and busy. Large trucks whoosh past and before we know it we’ve lost another mirror. So much for the new clips especially made for Jeep mirrors. That $13 insurance policy has just cost us another $149. New Norcia, Amazing Place (rhyme it with Amazing Grace) is a Benedictine monastery ‘town’, for want of a better description. Established in 1847 by the Spanish monk Rosendo Salvado. According to its orders the community … Continue reading Go West, Day 42 – New Norcia
Day 41 Thursday 16th April 2015 Gwelup, Perth Today it’s time to do all the last minute stuff before we leave the city behind. Hang on, haven’t we been doing that for the past week? Thank goodness I haven’t had the eotrackme app turned on as it would show us that we’ve been driving around in circles too many times. I know that I’ve speed walked the length of Murray Street three times trying to beat parking meters. At least the parking is cheaper than Melbourne. And yes we do find the Dan Murphy liquor store, was it left or … Continue reading Go West, Day 41 – Gwelup, Perth
