Decided this morning to stay another night here in Esperance and leave first thing tomorrow. This gives us time today to pack up our last belongings, fill out paperwork at the freight place and say thank you in person to the repairer who finally did write our report. After we finished packing and the caravan was totally emptied and cleaned to the best of our ability, we placed our keys in the drawer, took a final few last photos and closed the door on our litt...

So, finally we got news this morning (after spending hours on the phone again) that the report is in to the insurer and they are going to put in an urgent request for the assessor to assess our claim - they hoped this would happen later today or by tomorrow at the latest. Some good luck finally when we were called within an hour by the assessor who verbally confirmed they accept our claim and that they will pay us out and write the caravan off. We are thrilled ...

Not much to write about today as the car was at Ford the whole day. Lucky for Gadi they brought him back to where we are staying. We just relaxed today, reading and enjoying watching the antics of the chickens on this lovely property - and trying to come up with answers as to why chickens cross roads! Finally, at around 3pm our car was ready and someone came to pick us up. Turns out our tyres were in pretty bad shape so we had to drive all of 100 meters up the r...

We were really hoping that today the report would be sent from the repairer to our insurer and we spent some time on the phone trying to get this to happen. But no luck. First thing this morning Gadi took our car into Ford as it was booked in to check out some faults we've been having with the AWD locking. They have to order a part so it is now booked again for tomorrow. We are both feeling very frustrated and helpless at the lack of progress and having to rely...

Another night of very little sleep - worrying obviously, but Gadi says it's because of the espresso martini, which despite being decaf, was really strong. So today I am off coffee! Not much we can do in terms of getting things done re our caravan so after a quiet morning we decided to explore east of Esperance alongside the Cape Le Grand National Park - where we can't go because of Cadbury. The owner of the property told us their favourite beach is Whartons Beac...