The birds and sun woke us up as usual but laid in and got up at 7, we both had the best sleep yet, it got cool enough to pull the quilt on. After doing a load of washing we went off exploring and 4 wheel driving through the bush today in the surrounding area, Dennis looking for a fishing spot and Gayle spotting birds and photographing plants and Dennis chasing fresh water crocs. We had a picnic lunch by the river and when we came back we were hot and decided to ...

An interesting day was spent today, the sun rises early in W.A. and because of the 90 min time zone change we were out of whack. Dennis checked out the surrounds on an early morning walk while I stayed in bed a bit longer, although I couldn't sleep. We are staying here for 3 days so it gave us a chance to do some washing. Then I heard the first of many helicopter flights for the day, boy it was loud so I went to have a look and discovered the helipad just 200 met...

We stayed in a free park on the side of the road last night with about 20 other vans of all sizes and varying mod cons. The road trains were very noisy and one decided to honk us, thank goodness they stopped about 10pm. Today has been interesting as the terrain and vegetation has changed throughout our journey. As you can tell from the photo today we are now in boab country and we have seen many majestic escarpments, views of different ranges all around us. This...