We arrived in Perth on Monday 8 September to surprise my brother Sean at the start of his ride from Perth to Melbourne to raise awareness for Huntington's Disease (see his website www.genepositive.com). We stayed with my cousin Linda, her husband Glenn and their three sons, Sam, Ethan and Kalen. Linda's house would be full later in the week with all those arriving for the ride. My brother in law, Shane happened to be in town for work on Tuesday so he took us o...

Breakfast Sunday morning we treated ourselves to some bacon and egg toasties from the take away shop across the road. Sometimes you wish you had just cooked your own! We left Moora and headed to New Norcia. This town was set up as a Benedictine monastery town. It is still in such use now and some of the old buildings are amazing. Old schools and orphanages. It was kind of surreal to see such a place in regional Australia. The Monks have an operational b...

We stopped for morning tea in a picturesque small town called Mingenew before continuing on to Moora. We set up camp in town at the caravan park. On driving into town we saw a heap of people at the local sport fields. We established the local women's hockey finals were on so we wandered up for a look. The Moora Tigers took on the Robins (we weren't sure where they were from). The Robins won 3-2. The party at the club rooms seem to go on all night as we coul...

We took the long way to Mullewa via Woolen Station in the hope of seeing some spectacular wild flowers. We saw no better than we had been seeing driving from Mt Augustus to Murchison. We arrived in Mullewa just in time for lunch. We had heard good things about Mullewa, however we were a bit disappointed when we arrived. There were a lot of shops in the main street that were empty. The town itself seemed pretty empty. After lunch we went to the lookout befor...

We packed up at Mt Augustus and drove about 5 and a half hours to the Murchison Roadhouse. We are stopping here purely because neither of us could be bothered driving any further. We spent a lazy afternoon writing our blog and reading, worrying if it was going to rain and send us indoors (it only drizzled). Off to Mulewa next. Kylie