Jondarian Woolshed New Years Eve gathering I would like to thank Wife Mavis, Clive and Sandra, Nev and Linda, Bob and Grace, Amanda and Martin and Jennie and Gert for the best New Years ever. We started our experience by all meeting at the Cooyah free camp on the 29th. Day one was just spent [...]
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R&R for six days. Reaching Ceduna the car was filled with bang water after the Nullarbor crossing, we decided to head for Streaky Bay. This move would allow the kayak to be un welded from the roof racks to do some fishing. Sad (not) to say we stopped in to Smoky Bay 39ish kms from [...]
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We bid farewell to our friends at the Discovery van park at Boulder and took off for Norseman via Kalgoorlie about 190km Not much in the way of wild flowers today but there were some beautiful grevilleas. Fuelled up at Norseman after a pleasant run from Kalgoorlie then had a look around town. This is [...]
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We left our friends at Canna heading for Mullewa where we joined the Geraldton Mount Magnet road. A diversion at Pindar to see their Wreath flowers and smoko at the guest house. The wreath flowers here were better than we had seen elsewhere. Lunch and a fuel stop was had at Yalgoo about half way [...]
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Day one 29th August we arrived at Moora caravan park and set up for a two day stay. The park is quite small and we were concerned that our friends would not get a spot if they turned up late, (they needed power). I had (as I thought) booked two powered sites but on arrival [...]
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Greetings friends. For anyone in WA. Mavis and I are off to see the famous WA wild flowers. Our journey will start at Moora caravan park http://www.moora.wa….r/caravan_parks Shire of Moora – (08) 9651 1401 Our trip starts on the night of the 29th of August staying at Moora and we will enjoy the wild flower [...]
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As stated we are back in suburbia yuck. Had a great time on the trip north. We returned via a couple of designated wild flower runs on the way back. We were about 3 weeks too early for the full blooms but did see samples of lots of different blooms. The plan now is to [...]
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Had a little jobby to do no the van in the morning, the drinking water pump was not running. After putting a meter on the pump it was discovered to have power. A look under the sink showed that the water filter cartridge had come off the housing. Thank goodness that there was a shut [...]
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We broke camp at Seven Mile beach after a great brekkie of roti pratas and chicken curry ummo. Seven mile Beach camp. Unfortunately our drinking water pump has stopped producing so the coffee from the shower tanks had a pretty ucky taste, lotsa chlorine so much so Mavis couldn’t drink it. Sad when you get [...]
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We had a slow start today, maybe not a slow start but a leisurely one. We bid farewell to Cervantes at around 9am with the goal of just heading North for a while. This we managed quite well. Every little road that headed for the coast was explored and we love this place!!!! There are [...]
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