Hello to all my followers! I always underestimate how long it takes me to write up all that I do when I travel! (just remember all photos can be enlarged by clicking on them)
This will be another long one so please grab your drink of choice and settle on in, this is almost 3 weeks of exploring WA goodness, some funny, some sad, some serious but all of it was an adventure, one not soon to forget, so best I get it down on paper before I forget.
This trip was going to be up to the Gibb again, to finish off those couple of stops I missed in 2021, but my body wasn’t 100% and Max wasn’t quite as finished as I would have wanted her to be for the trip, so not wanting to miss out on a holiday, I changed my plans with only a couple weeks notice, and decided I wanted to see more of WA but in a different way, Station Stays!
I was really surprised by how many there are in WA all offering something different, but all offering a taste of station life and something better (well I now think) than a caravan park where you are all jammed in so close you can hear the guy next door fart!
I took off from Perth on Monday the 16th May, Bouncer, Mallow and Max ready for our next adventure. Now I did learn something from last years initial hiccup and didn’t leave till about 8.30am, meaning I well and truly had missed ‘dawn’ by the time I hit the open road, no roos this year!!
I had mapped out an idea of the places I wanted to stay at and this year the driving days were much shorter, meaning I really got to take it easy and enjoy the ride. I stopped in Dalwallinu for lunch, where I made the best toasted sanga! I was going to really get the hang of fry pan cooking this trip!
My first mapped spot to stay at was a station called Nalbarra Station, sitting on approx 161,000 hectares and sitting just below Mt Magnet only 80ks South. This station would really come alive at wildflower season but was just as fun to explore now. The amenities were simple but very ample. There was a huge kitchen space, fully stocked with all cutlery and crockery, pots and pans and a little dining hall behind it. The shower and toilet facilities were great!
Rob and his wife have taken on the management of the station and Rob greets you when you arrive, tells you about the station, shows you where everything is and then lets you know you can park up anywhere and move the fire pit if there isn’t one where you park. He has a beautiful Kelpie called Lucy and she is just adorable and stays by his side.
I found a nice spot, close enough to the facilities but separate enough not to be right next to the others caravanning nearby. So just before we left for this trip, dad and I were working on Max with the biggest change being removing the sports bars and installing a new LOW tub rack to mount the tent back onto. You know when someone tells you a job should take “ahh I dunno, maybe 3 hours” they have definitely lied to you as this thing took both of us about 6 hours!!!! But my god was she worth it! This trip, setting up and packing down was so much simpler as she was eye level rather than a huge reach up!
The others at the camp site were nice enough but we all kinda kept to ourselves. I spent the afternoon getting the hang of my surroundings and read a book. It wasn’t hot or cold but my god were the flies friendly! I manged to find my fly net and it was almost glued to me for the next few days! They were horrendous!
First night out was lovely! I cooked an epic pizza on my frypan, which was so yummy, a little treat whilst camping! When solo, i don’t tent to hang around outside long even with the fire going, as there are bities out there everywhere! I made an Awesome, if I do say sop myself, fire with the wood I foraged for, and it was still kinda going when I went to bed, so I put it out a little, just to be safe. I had forgotten how comfy that tent is and how well I sleep! The temp had dropped a bit once the sun went down so made for easy sleeping!
The following morning, Tuesday I caught up with Rob again as he had mentioned earlier that there was a couple of trips you could take around the property to explore a bit more and he would give me the map. Now these maps were hand drawn, but with info on them (windmills, gates, grids, distances etc) so you knew where to go quite well. As he was about to talk to me about the map etc the other campers came over to tell me, shhh the map is crap we got so lost! It doesn’t make sense and he’s got no idea where this place is. Eeek how did I really feel about heading off with a hand drawn map into the wilderness with no phone signal and apparently 4 adults (more adultier than me) couldn’t find it.
So I took my photo of the map from Rob, chatted to the other campers a bit to work out we may be at the same spot next as they were leaving that morning and if I chose to go and found it, I would have to let them know. Ladies can follow maps right!!?? Well this one bloody can! The map was fantastic, the distances were pretty spot on and the landmarks were where he marked them. It was a great drive, and where was I headed I hear you ask, well to Darn Rock of course! ha ha It was approx a 35k trip out and 70ks round trip. Went through some cool countryside, saw 3 windmills, a couple emus, lots of red dirt and trees and finally made it out to Darn Rock. I parked up next to the ‘You Darn Well Made It’ sign and went for a walk. Very cool rock, managed to find a love heart shape when speaking to Michael, and an outline looking like Australia, put my rock in the pile, tried to take some timed selfies and looked around at the breath-taking views! The photos won’t do it justice, you could see for miles! It was a great outing, and one I am glad I made and found the map super easy!
I had to take some obligatory photos of Mallow with the windmills and the really cool lake I didn’t notice on the way in.
The rest of the afternoon I just chilled, it was probably the first time in ages of travelling that I really took it slow and relaxed, wow what a change. There was peacocks and geese, ducks and chickens, check out the video below of the hungry chickens 🙂
Second night stay was much like the first, cooler, quiet and beautiful to sleep under the stars, with very little lighting, the stars were clear! As soon as you wake, as soon as the suns up so are those damn flies!!! OMG they stuck to you like glue. As soon as you got out of the tent on went the fly net, lifting slightly to eat or drink or if one occasionally breached the borders ha ha
After brekky on the Wednesday I was heading onto my next stop, which was only a couple hours down the road north of Cue.
I had done a bit of reading about what there is around Cue, it always baffled me why the caravan parks were always so busy when I drove through this town. Turns out there’s a few things to see around Cue.
My next station was just north of Cue called Nallan Station. Nearly 99,000 hectares of a working cattle station. It was similar to the last station but the grounds were a little nicer and there was more animals to see and interact with. They had a number of free to roam sheep, they had some penned chickens and pigs and also a couple noisy donkeys. As silly as it may sound but they were exactly what I wanted to see and experience at a station.
The camping was all unpowered and not assigned so you could choose anywhere, I picked a slightly shady spot a bit away from everyone but still close enough to the showers and toilets. It was pretty cool but looking out the shower window, you see grazing sheep in the common areas
The first afternoon I called in to the folks to let them know I was alive and well and not coming home haha then took a walk around the property, met the friendly sheep, the cute little donkeys and just generally have a look around.
On the second morning I decided to go and explore the ruins of a town called Big Bell. A Mining town which pretty much closed down in 1955 when the mine closed. In its prime it was a booming mining town established in 1936. It included schools, churches, a hotel, bakery and many other shops. It also included an open air Theatre which sadly burnt down only a year after it opened, it was rebuilt but not to the original standard.
Sadly now the town is a ghost town with not much left of the buildings anymore. The first building you come across is the old Hotel, alot of the structure is still there but all fenced so noone else can get access to it. Some lovely signage with the history of various locations in the town remain. Amazing to see the stories of the families who once called this town home. Definitely worth a visit if you find yourself in Cue.
And guess who I bumped into while I was exploring?? You won’t guess it, but yes the 2 couples I met at my first station stay, the ones who got lost, Chris, Donna, Wendy and Darryl. They were out exploring at the same time and then invited me for coffee back at their vans. It was fantastic meeting all of them, we had some good laughs and talking about each of our travels. Was also lovely to have been able to tell them the map was fine and I found Darn Rock :). We parted ways and I headed back to the station. I told them I would remember their names as they would be making an appearance in here 😀
I took a little detour on the way back to check out Walga rock, just further South west of Cue – much bigger than Darn rock but you can’t walk around it. Found myself a nice little monitor lizard along the way too – figured it was his road, he can make a crosswalk wherever he wants. (excuse the bugs on the window)
After the sightseeing I took a slow drive around town, its a cute town and the wide streets in Cue really are something. Checked in with the folks and headed back to camp. Found the pigs at the station, also very inquisitive. I didn’t have a fire pit at this station, I didn’t park up next to one, plus couldn’t find the ‘wood pile’ they referred to in the information. I did purchase a new stubby holder from the station – I may have started collecting them..expensive hobby! ha
I ‘checked out’ the following morning and was moving on to the next stop. This was a bit of a longer drive today as I was headed to Newman for a very quick overnighter. I hadn’t booked anything, thinking I could just roll in and pay on the spot. I really enjoy the drive through this section, it changes heaps and its beautiful to look at! Alot more trucks as you get closer to Newman its a bit of a major point for the middle of WA.
Once I had arrived into Newman I knew where I was staying, Yurlu, but when I drove in, it was very clear there was noone there to check in, so I called the number, but it went to the local council office and they advised it was online bookings only. So about 15 mins after arriving I paid my $45, got my entry code and was rolling through the boomgate. I had a powered grass site, and pretty much drove onto the site and stayed hitched. As it was a later arrival in the arvo, it wasn’t worth unhooking. I set up first, then hit the showers and dinner. Was easy to set up as the ground was nice and soft, perfect for banging in my pegs! 🙂
The facilities were good, simple and absolutely NO TREES in sight but showers were good pressure! It was a very desolate camp grounds quite literally the ablutions, bitumen and grass. Slept like a log, and it bucketed down with rain! Got woken a couple times with the rain but slept well. Bit of a break in the rain in the morning so packed up when I could, went tent but kinda better than a wet me. The tent will dry out at the next stop.
This takes us to Saturday morning yep I spent Friday night in beautiful Newman and had my second biggest drive for the trip, 6.5 hours from Newman to Pardoo Station. I thought about staying in Port Hedland but didn’t really have a reason to stay, and it was so close to Pardoo, so I just continued through. This is the best part of the drive, after Newman it becomes hilly, with some very pretty gorges, it can be a slow drive as the trucks only go so slow through the ups and downs, and due to the windy roads, there isn’t many over taking lanes. It looks incredible first thing in the morning, but it’s pretty anytime.
It was a fairly long day, but I kept myself occupied singing like a superstar along with the radio ha ha I hadn’t made a booking initially for Pardoo, but then looking online on Friday it kinda looked like they preferred online bookings, so I did a quick booking for 2 nights, and got an auto response back with an access code and site number which makes for such a smoother ‘check in’.
The road in wasn’t the best, lots of corrugations, and still no cows, it was about 13ks I think. As you roll into the homestead, there are signs to point you towards the caravan park and the keypad was easy to find and then it was just a matter of finding my site, as I expected it was at the back, a nice big site with a bit of grass on it which was great. It was only a short stroll to the pool, the laundry and the ablutions which was great. I looked forward to opening up my tent after it got wet in Newman, didn’t take long to dry!
I met the family next door to me pretty quick but honestly never got their names. I was eaves dropping when they mentioned going to watch the sunset that night, but I had no idea where to go, so I made a point to kinda invite myself to follow them so I didn’t get lost. They were lovely and had no issues letting me come along. They were on a gap year with their family and were enjoying it all. The son was an avid and very good fisherboy so he was in his element.
The spot we went to watch the sunset was Red Point and I am glad I followed as with having a map it would be easy, I didn’t so neighbours were handy! The sunset spot was beautiful, the sunset that night was also epic. There was only one other car to watch the sunset that night and it was 2 girls and their ute. I made a point of making sneaky contact with them by taking an epic photo of the ute with the sky behind it.
I made my conversation starter with something along the lines of “hi – not sure if you guys are into car porn as much as me but I took an epic photo of your ute” and the rest as they say is history. Holly and Jacinta as I found out worked at the station and we got to chatting about everything, the family I came with checked to ensure I was ok as they were headed back and I stayed with the girls. it was such a fun night, drinking and chatting and watching the amazing colours of the sky change.
The next day I decided to do a bit of exploring, managed to get a map of the caravan park and surrounds and took a drive to the river mouth to check out all the hype! The tide was super low but it was pretty amazing to see how high it could actually come up to! there were these really wiked little red crabs with only one MASSIVE red claw, which I think with my little googling skills is called a ‘fiddler crab’ where the males have one enlarged claw. As soon as you got a little close, they disappeared down tiny holes. There are 2 gates to go through to get to the river mouth, the first is at the caravan park and then the next is to go to the start of the river mouth, both must be left as you found, which is closed.
I didn’t venture too far into the marsh lands, there were lots of tracks, I wasn’t sure of the conditions of the ground the further I went so I went a little way, then stopped and came back around. Stayed around camp that afternoon, hit the washing room to get some clean clothes and then headed to the pool. I am able to chat to anyone, and made more friends at the pool too, more travellers, more families on gap years and it’s amazing to hear about their trips and the places they get to.
The girls swung past at about 5pm for what was going to be my last sunset at Pardoo, but I had just extended my stay as the next day was supposed to be raining HARD in Karratha where I was going to be the next day so I extended. The sunset once again didn’t disappoint, red and pink, purple and orange and the crazy crabs came out again and they were awesome! I was considering how I could possibly take one home for my nephews.
We made plans to play cards back at my camp, but we just ended up talking about our lives, boys, travel and family. It was such an awesome night but we might have kept the neighbours up, it was about 11pm by the time we finished up.
My final day at the beautiful Pardoo station was a hot one, and I spent alot of it at the pool 🙂 after I was sufficiently pruney I jumped out and chilled by the car under the shade of the tent. Before I knew it, it was just before 5pm and the girls came by to pick me up. Ohhh I forgot to tell you all, this trip I remembered to buy some icy poles and put them in the freezer for the trip. They were fantastic way to take the edge off the warmer days, and something a little sweet.
This sunset the girls had a great idea to capture the change in hyperlapse, it was a great idea and for the most part if worked, but I should have left mine on for much longer while there was still so much colour to have seen. But I loved it, unfortunately it was too big to upload here – just ask and i can send it to you? This was my last night in the station and a beautiful sunset to have finished with, plus also got to see the crabs again. We had another great night together, me and Jacinta walked out to find the water which was quite a way back. More laughs and chatter about life and boys! ha it was wiked fun! Great way to end this part of the trip! thanks girls!! Hope all is well by the time you are reading this.
The following morning I was onto the next stop which was Karratha. I was going to stay in hedland but it was a bit too close, so Karratha it was. I had made baby plan to catch up with one of the COR4x4 admins for the Kimberley, pub catch up to put a face to the name. So I booked into the Discovery Caravan park in Karratha, which is really nice, reversed the trailer like a champ, so proud of myself! It was early afternoon when I arrived to decided to hit the shops real quick, get my eyebrows done, ha yeah I know I was camping why did I care, but they were so overdue!!!! Plus I had to get a present for my two beautiful nephews in case I didn’t get home in time to buy one, they were turning 2!! Winter present, which was a couple pairs of trackies, and they fitted well. #bestauntie!
Unfortunately the pub catch up didn’t come off as she ended up having to work late, but thats ok. I took off to the pub by myself, someone else can cook for me tonight! The pub was cute as and the steak I had was pretty bloody good! I slept really well this night, must have needed the steak! 🙂
Then it was a quick pack up in the morning and onto the next station, I was very excited for this one as I had heard many great things. Bullara station on the Exmouth Gulf, about 5 hours drive. This was another cattle station with alot of things to see and do on this one.
I arrived at the station on a Wednesday and they have the best greeting, after checking in you go down to a meet point in your car and they have staff to ‘greet’ you, tell you about the station, what to do and see and what they have as activities for the time you are there.
Wednesday is ‘damper nights’, damper is cooked at the communal fire pit by John and then shared around. It’s a great way to meet people and chat about travels. I met a lovely family on their gap year travelling Australia, Wendy and Dan and their 3 kids Matilda, Lauren and Zara. We chatted a while and made plans to catch the high tide the following morning at 8am at Exmouth Gulf. It is still part of the property, just outside the main entrance and you find the gate on your right and its about 20ks down the track. Now this track has a little of everything, great scenery, soft sand, hard sand, corrugations and some rocky parts. All in all a great drive and I am glad I wasn’t doing it solo. I gave the family my 2way so we could chat if needed.
High tide was pretty cool, you can see it definitely gets higher as you can see the markings up the sand a bit more. Dan tried his hand at fishing and me and the girls went shell hunting. Dan did actually catch a fish, a small one and not worth keeping but he caught one. We all saw what appeared to be a small shark, possibly a brown shark, but we couldn’t catch him! It was fun as we could already see the tide receding even in the hour or so we were there. When it was apparent we wouldn’t be catching dinner, we headed off.
The place has a bocce court, kitchen facilities, outside showers, lava trees which is a donkey hot water system feeding hot water into buckets hung from the tree to create the shower. There were 3 or 4 walks you could go on that took you out and around the property. There is also a cute little resident puppy – no idea of the name but she’s a little black and brown sausage dog. She knew where to find the sucker for a puppy. The recent upgrade at the property was a new coffee machine offering barista made coffee, and they make the best scones ever! so yummy!
Thursday night is music night, they have changing musicians who are passing through for a night or more. The musician was Cameron Alexander, and he was really good, travelling WA with his girlfriend! He played some of his own music and covers. Played from about 5pm till about 7pm so just in time for dinner. I met a couple of new people at this music event which was lovely, and it was the last night my friends were going to be there, they were headed to Coral Bay next I believe. The girls invited me for marshmallows after dinner, over the communal fire which was lovely! We used my extension mallow sticks, and the girls cooked them all for me. It was lovely!
That night it was super overcast, and was going to be raining all the next day, so I got up early caught the sunrise and went for a walk. This was the first of the walks I had taken around the property, and it was called the beer bottle walk. I’m so glad I did it, 2.6ks round trip, and quite literally got in JUST before the rains really started! got drizzled on but made it back to camp in time. Checked out the weather report and the rain wasn’t going away anytime soon, so out came the awning, and the table and cooker was moved round the side
so I could cook and make my coffee in shelter without getting wet. Hooked up the awning to have it angled down a bit, so the water just ran off. And that was where I stayed most of the day as the rain didn’t let us much, I grabbed some meat from the reception, steaks and snags, no burgers.
I should probably say that as of Thursday arvo I had extended for another day, the idea of burger night was just too much to pass up! The reviews were amazing, and it was only about $13 for a flame grilled burger, Bullara style. I had spoken to a couple a few spaces up from me during my stay and we got chatting about camping set ups, so they showed me around theirs. Andy and Collette, as I found out, had done some amazing work to their ute. I sadly cannot remember the ute they had, by my god did they have some cool stuff on it!! 2 things I remember really well was their camp oven by Kickass and their tyre spider by
Clearview. I was impressed, very impressed. I love seeing what others have in their cars, so many ideas! Oh and I have also realised I want and need a drill, with an attachment for the legs on my trailer, making it a much quicker job, plus have a drill on hand for anything else!
They tell you to head towards the barn for about 5.45pm as music starts at 6 and they are cooking burgers by 6.30. There was magically a lull in the rain for this time of the afternoon. So, I grabbed my chair, followed the surprising crowd at about 5.15, to get a good spot! Man it had filled out already! So grabbed a seat in the line (forgot my plate) and settled into the music. The music was a one-man band from Tasmania – Ruben Reeves, jeeeez he was so talented, guitar player, harmonica, foot drums, and the ukulele and was really funny to boot!
What an awesome night, they called everyone line by line and called up for the burgers, after they were cooked over a camp fire, with a swinging plate? not sure how to describe it, see photos and video below. The staff were fantastic and cooked and prepared apparently 258 burgers that night. They were well worth staying the extra day for. The whole place is amazing! The shower was awesome, outside, water from the tank and all the hardware was various items from the farm, horseshoes etc
Saturday morning, I had seen the rain radar and noted there was approx 2 breaks in the rain, about 5am and then apparently 7am… I didn’t want to run the risk of 7am still raining, so I packed up my tent at 5ish am. It was dark and cold and still a little sprinkling, but not pissing down like the night was. I was super happy with how quick I managed to pack up in the almost dark, and I didn’t even think I made too much noise… only when the cover was on did, I realise in my haste, I didn’t take the keys out of the tent. An absolute FML moment thinking it was easy to get to, but nope, had to open the whole bloody thing again and hope the rain didn’t kick in early. As it turned out, it didn’t really stop around 7am so as annoying as it was, I was I’m glad I was up early.
So, I grabbed my last round of scones as I checked out, took the photos of my car at all the property signage and followed my GPS to Wooramel Station, which is just after Carnarvon and was to be the last station I was staying at this trip.
The scenery was extremely bleak in this section, super overcast with bouts of low to heavy rain! And no shortage of caravans boats and trailers heading north.
Once I arrived at the turn off to the station I was excited to see where my last stop would take me. I had read great things about this place. A family owned working cattle, sheep, goat and outback station stay. The property occupies an area of 1430 square kilometres with 60 kilometres of coastline frontage to the Indian Ocean, backing onto the Shark Bay World Heritage area.
I checked into the reception and found out there are no allocated bays, just a separate area if you use a generator. So I paid my $15 per night for 2 nights unpowered and headed off to find a spot. I noticed pretty quick how crowded the ‘river view’ sites were even though there was no river to see. So I found a nice spot just back from the river and only one bay beside me, perfect! Reversed the trailer in and parked to the side.
Now this station is known for 3 things, an awesome tip, a pretty cool river that flows upside down and 4 hot pools running at 33 degrees 24/7. So once I had set the tent up, I changed into bathers and headed off to find these pools. OMG they didn’t disappoint and to start with I had a whole pool to myself! They were like an oversized warm bath with epsom salts already in it! Absolutely amazing! I chatted briefly to the maintenance man at this point. A couple of couples joined me after about half hour and was great talking to them all, we didn’t exchange names but they were all super friendly. I met my neighbours briefly, a lovely couple camping with a tent and Britz 4wd ute, they let me know there was music up at the communal fire pit, so I headed up to listen at about 6pm. It definitely wasn’t my scene or music, so I didn’t stay long.
Slept like a log, was alot cooler at night so made for perfect sleeping weather. Actually slept in! I headed back up to the pools in the morning to find out moist of them were empty and my maintenance man Sam was back and working on the pools. I found out so much more about the pools and the station from this chat, which as I found out later became a bit of a joke about me working for the station by knowing so much.
I met others at the station over the coming days and funnily enough was wealth of wisdom to any questions I asked which really made it sound like I worked there with all the info I had. I just speak to anyone who wants to and take alot in when I’m travelling
I took a wander through the tip on the first morning, they describe it as – One person’s trash is another person’s treasure or so the saying goes. In the bush it was and often still is impossible to throw anything away, as you just don’t know when it may come in handy. The early pastoralists simply choose a section of land not too far from the homestead and dumped everything they no longer needed. Explore through the discarded detritus of 4 generations – from wool carts to pumps, bottles to cars and washing machines.
It was pretty cool, lots of bits and bobs and some really cool old cards to look out. As I ended there was the option of a river walk, so I took and left and tried to find the next signs. I didn’t find out till later that this was a nearly 5k return walk. So I followed the signs that took you towards the river, as I headed there the tiny white dog from the station started barking at me and River the resident station dog came running up to me, like she does this everyday, sniffed me and then passed me like a ‘come on hurry up’. So she walked with me to the gate, and through it. She followed me the whole way, at the end of the walk you come up to the river and actually can ‘cross it’ in FWD (foot wheel drive).
This river runs underground by about 10 or 15 metres, only coming to the surface about 2 or 3 times a year and we missed it. Soon after standing in the river we headed back towards camp, and about 500m into the walk back she abandoned me! Got me to my final destination and then figured I was able to find my own way home. The afternoon consisted in more time soaking in the tub after lunch. Put on a quick load of washing, extended my stay another night as I wasn’t ready to head home yet, then hit the pools 🙂
I met my next neighbour that afternoon after the pools – Rhiannon with the sexy high top troopy! We realised later that we actually had friends in common back in Perth which was awesome! We clicked right away and is definitely the first solo woman I’ve seen travelling in such a long time. We shared the campfire and I’m sure I spilled my life’s story to her, but it was great! We decided in the morning we were gonna go pay our $10 each and grab the map to the the station self drive.
Picked up the map and paid our money and chose a station we could both be on and headed off. I took the lead and held the map which was fun! So there was 2 parts to this station experience, a distance away section where you saw the old shearers quarters and shearing shed and holding pens. The shearers quarters were amazing to still be standing, the whole thing was on the most amazing lean, but the shearers shed was the most amazing. It stopped being used in 2006 when the station moved from sheep to cattle and considering its age, was in incredible shape. We didn’t venture too far into the shed as we weren’t sure of the stability of the wooden sleepers anymore. There appeared to still be wool in there, it was really cool!
Back on the road towards the station, turning right onto Meedo road and we discovered more about the property, heaps of photos to show. This took us down all gravel roads, where we saw cows, I saw 2 roos(alive and I left them the same way) and explored all the way back to the homestead, which included us crossing over the river, 4L and tyres dropped and I went first, OMG it was sooo bumpy, it had been chopped up a bit but was so lumpy. It was a great crossing and had no issues at all. Rhi followed and was also all good, and we were back at camp and airing up. It was a wiked place to explore and great company.
Definitely hit the pool after this but it was getting bloody cold! the wind had picked up and we got told to expect rain overnight. The weather changed super wquick and it was cold. It was this pool session we realised we had a German friend in common. No fire with dinner tonight we forgot to get wood. I got into bed after dinner and about half hour later heard pats on the canvas…rain was coming. I quickly jumped up and moved my chair under the tent, put both towels on the chair and pushed my boots further under the tent so nothing got wet. Slept well, but got woken by the rain for a moment.
In the morning it was time to pack up again and my next stop was going to be Geraldton. I packed up so much better, it’s getting easier each time! The rain was going to continue during the day so I packed up after brekky and made my way out with a quick photo op of the entrance with Mallow 🙂
Now really was the home stretch. I was headed to Geraldton for the night, which turned into two. My COR4x4 bestie Sam lives in Gero and I was gonna be swinging by to catch up with her. We were going to try a beach camp but it was going to be windy as hell for the next 2 or 3 days, beach days are shit if its windy! So I camped in her back yard and we had a fire pit in the yard! We had fish and chips the first night, brekky at this beautiful cafe in the morning, a bit of shopping, a quick beach dip, a really cool tour of town and home made dinner with our fire pit again AND home made brekky! It was a brilliant couple days and lovely getting to be a tourist with a resident and see how big and cool Gero is actually!
And then folks, the 3 week trip was over and I was headed home, about 5 hours. The scenery got a bit better as you could see more of the coast, up and down through the bush scrub.
I really hope you have all enjoyed this latest adventure and continue to follow my adventures. There are so many more photos I could have added, I take so many 🙂
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