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........
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...........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!!
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