We've been swimming at the beautiful Hopetoun beaches, going for bushwalks, chatting to Old grey nomada at the caravan park...they have everything plus the kitchen sink in their big caravans. We've also been looking up the local history on our laptop. There was a terrible massacre of the local Nyoongars in the early 1880s and so the area from Ravensthorpe to Hopetoun is now bad country to the indigenous people. The white "pioneers" were really murderers....the...

Got away as planned - 8 am. Weather was great, mid 20's . 577km Tried to steal the baby when we left but the mother wouldn't let us. Arrived 4pm, food shopping done and set up by 5pm, B-B-Q tea and wine by 7pm. Then the grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! time of getting the mobile broadband working. OK now

Leaving early on Friday 24th February. Planning to go staight to Hopetoun then spend 2 nights there before moving on.