Going west again.........part 5.......heading for the border...........

 

I think I better get busy and finish this report of our trip west, as it is almost end of February which means we have been home for 6 weeks now!! Where does time go to?

I shall try and be brief with this post, and take you from Northampton to the WA/SA border. We  headed south and bypassed Geraldton this time and took the inland road so that we could stop at Carnamah......

It was very hot, and we found a lovely park under a tree so that we could check out the latest addition to this town...... a big tractor, and it was huge, a replica of a Chamberlain tractor.......... 

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You can see how large it was in comparison to the building alongside it.

WE kept moving south and passed lots of bunkers of grain from the harvest of the farmers in this area. WA had one of their best harvests for years, while the farmers of SA had one of the worst. A big difference!!

We had thought to stay at New Norcia and tour the monastery there, but the time did not work out for us........

...........so we kept going and ended up at a roadside stop at Meckering.....a little town on the Great Eastern Highway....

.......it was still very warm and we set up the generator for power to run it............

Meckering is famous for an earthquake in 1968 and there is much information in the park ..............

Next day we moved further east until Coolgardie before turning south............

...........We saw many road trains carting ore from the local mines..........

........and lots of wide loads transporting mining equipment..........

We stopped that night at Norseman..............

and the next day turned east again and headed across the barren lands of the Nullabor towards the border.

There are many places on the highway where the RFDS planes can land..........

We were a bit late in the season for the wildflowers, but saw many of these trees in bloom............

A stop at the Caiguna Blowhole was interesting.........there are many caves in this area.............

There is little vegetation as we travelled further across the plain...........

Next stop was at Cocklebiddy, where there was power but no water, unless you paid for showers. Thankfully we had enough water for a few days on board.

Next day we arrived at the border about 2.30pm (WA time). 

We got fuel there, at $2.33 a litre. (Across the border at Border Village it was $2.80!!)

We then crossed the border and the time difference was 2 1/2 hours!! (and back to daylight saving time).

I shall finish this post here, and continue with part 6 of our trip back in SA.

Blessings, From Jude, oh and Baz!!

Updating the For Sale pages of the blog......

 I am currently in the process of updating the For Sale pages of all the fabric bundles and packs that I have for sale. This is a work in progress, so come back often to check for my product.

I will be the shop at the next SA Quilters meeting on March 6th and would love to catch up with you there.  As  I don't have room to bring everything to the meeting, if you are interested in any items, please contact me.

For all my blog readers, I shall be having a stock reduction sale on some lines very soon. Meantime, I shall get back to cutting and packing and listing more items for sale. 

Hope you are all enjoying this lovely weather we are having here in South Australia, as I am sure the hot has not gone away yet.

Blessings, From Jude

Going west again.........part 4.......Kalbarri

 Here we are, already half way through the second month of the year, and I haven't finished the report of our trip to the west. In the last trip post, we were based at Northampton for 2 nights prior to a day trip to Kalbarri..............

It was New Year's Day, the first of January and the weather was forecast to be HOT. We left the van at Northampton and headed through country to Kalbarri, via the coastal road............ 

We saw the signs to many mining sites, one being a garnet mine. This is the Pink Lake, which covered a big area........

We stopped at a lot of coastal areas, beaches and cliff areas...............

...............until we reached the town of  Kalbarri.

We parked in a shady spot in the town to  eat the lunches that we had packed.

Next stop was the the Kalbarri skywalk, in the Kalbarri National park.

....(not a real emu)............

It was very HOT by the time we reached the skywalk, and you probably could have fried an egg on the footpath................

...........the view from the skywalk was amazing, well that was after I got used to walking out on the platform and being able to look down...........

There is 2 platforms and you can see the second one in the following photo, and just how far out over the edge that it sits!!!

                             

This photo has been taken from the internet site, and gives you another perspective of the platform.

We did not spend a lot of time on the skywalk, because it was so hot, and were very thankful that there were icecreams in the engel freezer in the car. This was the first icecream I had eaten for more than 2 years!!

We drove back to the van at Northampton through the national park, (which had cost us $17 to enter.)

After a good night's sleep with the air con on all night, it was time to head in the direction of home. (insert sad face).

I will be back soon with Part 5.

Blessings, From Jude