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Go West, Day 92 – Fitzroy Crossing

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Day 92 Saturday 6th June 2015, warm 30 degrees Derby to Fitzroy Crossing Woody is complaining of bruised hands. From breaking the ice crust on his Techni Ice fridge whenever he gets a beer! The highway is lined with treed grasslands. The grass is so high that we only see the cows when they pop out to amble across the road. It’s a cattleman’s heaven as far as the eye can see. Fitzroy Crossing is quite small and a good way back from the river but we are later to learn that the town was moved when the bridge was … Continue reading Go West, Day 92 – Fitzroy Crossing

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Go West, Day 91 – Derby

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Day 91 Friday 5th June 2015, 32 degrees Derby You know that it must be a hot climate when the caravan park washing machines are out on the verandah and folks leave their cars running whilst they go shopping, for the sake of the air conditioning. This is a nice park and there is a large treeless area at the back where vans can be left whilst the owners do the Gibb River Road in their tents. We return to the wharf to see the low tide, what a difference. We can now see how high the wharf really is. … Continue reading Go West, Day 91 – Derby

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Go West, Day 84 – Broome

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Day 84 Friday 29th May 2015, warm again 34 degrees Broome We have a lazy day just enjoying this lovely caravan park. We have new neighbours. The couple on our right are from NSW and have stayed here 15 times, yes they like it here. In fact they’ve just sold their house to go on the road permanently. On our left is a couple from SA. He’s a retired maintenance man and she was a house mother in a boarding school. They do short term postings at caravan parks and farms, they were even rat catchers on a pig farm. … Continue reading Go West, Day 84 – Broome