End of the Trip

Friday, our last day in Coral Bay, was a lovely sunny day. We did not do much. Just enjoyed the day. Anne did some sewing. Brian tried to update the Blog but had a few techincal problems and could not complete it, hence the delay in publishing. The bakery was a good place to visit when things were not right so went and bought some cakes and came back to the van for tea and cakes, followed by a beer and wine.

Caravan parks are a wondeful mix of people. We met a New Zealand couple who were travelling from Perth to Darwin in a campervan over 4 weeks. They were farmers from near Christchurch. Another young couple were from Tasmania and had lived in a station wagon for the past 6 months as they travelled around Australia. There were numerous overseas visitors travelling around as well as those from all states of Australia.

Time to go.

Saturday we packed up and started the journey home. We drove back to Carnarvon and then pushed on and stayed overnight at the Neren Neren overnight stay area. That was about 500 kms travel for the day. There were about 14 other vans, campers or buses there. The stars were absolutely beautiful overhead. There was no light from any cities or other places so it was very clear. It rained a little bit that night. It was so quiet after the caravan parks.

On Sunday morning we packed up and headed off again about 10am. We had intended to come home via the coast along Jurien Bay, Green Head and Cervantes, but the weather forecast was for gale force winds so we decided to push on to home. We arrived home about 6:30 pm after travelling over 600kms for the day. On the way home we passed through 4 speed traps. Yes four. 3 were well spaced apart in the Muchea area and 1 in Bullsbrook. As well, there were two on the other side of the road in Muchea catching those gloing north. We have never seen so many speed traps in an area. Obviosuly trying to capture all the holiday travellers.

Over both days there was a lot of traffic heading north. We have not seen so many caravans and especially boats travelling along the roads. It is the start of school holiday time but still it was incredible how many cars, vans and boats were on the road. The road was very busy.

Even though the weather has not been great over the three weeks we were away we had a great time. We have had a relaxing time doing as we feel, meeting some more people and seeing some parts of WA that we have not seen before. Our meetings with people have encouraged us to get the shower and toilet in action in the van as well as put on an annex and invest in some solar cells. These will allow us to stay in some of the off-track sites that exist on our beautiful coast as well as being able to stay overnight in roadside stayovers as we travel around. There really is a great world out to discover and many great people to meet.

We set off on August 1 for our Canning Stock Route adventure. Unfortunately there will be no opportunity during that trip to update a blog as we are out of any communication service except sattelite phone for the period. When we get back we will produce a blog on the experience.

Till then we hope life is good for you.

Cheers from Anne and Brian