Hi all After a noisy night (road traffic party music and a few drunk people tapping on our van) we re stocked at the only supermarket and cruised out of town. The road to Karijini took us through rolling hills that had that rusty look of iron ore but looked very spectacular with lots of washed out gorges. The temp was just nice being around 20 deg under a calm overcast sky and was enjoyable driving with the window down. We were greeted to a sign saying the camp...

Greetings readers. The drive from Meekatharra north was through more dry and open scrubby country with not much wildlife spotted apart from a lone dingo on the road who did not hang around. After a easy 150 odd k/m's under a overcast sky that threatened rain we pulled into another roadside camp with several other campers for the night. The road trains seemed to be one after the other during the day and only slightly fewer during the night. Most that want to pass ...

Hello again. On the second day in Mount Magnet I spent a few hours with the metal detector exploring a remote area not to far from town but found nothing of value but had a interesting time. It was very relaxing and Steph caught up with some reading and a bit of knitting. On Tuesday we left this small and quiet mining town and cruised on north to Meekatharra where we found a nice quiet bush camp area about 3 k/m out of town called The Granites in Peace Gorge. T...

Hi again. After leaving Perth we cruised north 218 km to the town of Dalwallinu in the rain for most of the way before blue skies broke through. The motor camp was very nice with modern facilities for a camp in the middle of nowhere town. Waking up to clear blue skies after a cold night and with the promise of 18 deg.we felt ourselves finally slipping back into that holiday mode. After a leisurely breakfast it was time to hit those long never ending roads that j...

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