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Our 200kms drive west to Dumbleyung was mostly on a straight road. The 10kms causeway across King Lake is the longest in WA. We stopped at Newdegate for a brief look around. The painted silos were impressive. Our lunch stop was in the town of Lake Grace. The bakery has an outdoor seating area butContinue reading “Lake King to Dumbleyung”

It rained on and off for most of the day. Every time I had to do something outside it rained! When packing up the van I would be outside for a couple of minutes, then back inside until it stopped. Fortunately it did not rain while I walked Bluey down to the coffee van. WeContinue reading “Esperance to Lake King”

It has been sunny for most of the day but the wind has been unrelenting. The maximum wind gust in Esperance on 1 August was 72kph and 83kph yesterday. There is still a chance of an overnight thunderstorm. We went to Cloud Eleven Coffee to buy an AeroPress coffee press that can make espresso styleContinue reading “Last Day Esperance”

While Perth and towns on the west coast of WA suffered damage from wild winds over 100kph, we have so far not had any issues here on the south coast. The wind was very strong all day but our site in the caravan park is surprisingly protected. A colourbond fence and line of pine treesContinue reading “Twilight Beach Road”

Today was fur/hair cut day for Bluey and Anita. Louise Powell did a great job grooming our poodle. She breeds rare Bedlington Terriers and is going to show her 12 week old very red Toy Poodle. She scoffed when I said Blue is a Toy Poodle, because he is much too big to be inContinue reading “Weather Event”

I took Tilly for a walk around our caravan park. We don’t generally use swimming pools, playgrounds, camp kitchens or games rooms, but of course we pay the same rate as travellers who make full use of these facilities. Apart from our site facilities of power, water and drainage our use of caravan park facilitiesContinue reading “Sunshine At Last”

This morning there was sunshine and we managed to get our washing dry before the winds increased and changed direction. The owners of a neighbouring caravan were out when some of their gear was blowing away. I collected it and weighted it down for them. A coffee van was open near the entrance to ourContinue reading “Esperance – Cold, Wet and Windy”

It was partly cloudy at Norseman when we left the RV park. Our first stop was to be the dump site but some selfish, ignorant, idiotic person had blocked the entrance with their car and caravan (grrr!). We gave up and I went to the only cafe for my coffee. It was a 2 hourContinue reading “Norseman to Esperance”

It was foggy this morning with some frost. We waited for the fog to clear before leaving Cocklebiddy. Tilly kept warm in the bathroom in front of the heater outlet. The first roadhouse was only 66kms from Cocklebiddy so we did not stop. Caiguna Roadhouse was established in 1962 to enable travel across the NullaborContinue reading “Cocklebiddy to Norseman”

We saw a lovely sunrise this morning, but not as dramatic as the sunsets. We had to eat, cook or freeze most of our fruit and vegetables before crossing the WA border due to quarantine restrictions. Anita made banana hotcakes for breakfast and served them with yoghurt a segments of mandarine. I ate the lastContinue reading “Head of Bight to Cocklebiddy WA”