We had a restful night and woke to a beautiful morning at Fraser Range. A quick breakfast of cereal and banana and we were off on our long 600km journey to Eucla today. Our first stop was Balladonia, where back in 1979 the USA Skylab re-entered the earth's atmosphere and showered the area with debris, including a very large piece that was in the nice little museum along with newspaper clipping about the event. Just after Balladonia, is Australia's Longest Stra...

We all helped to get the van ready for departure and enjoyed a quick game of cricket with our friendly neighbours. Unusually, this caravan park has a 1pm checkout, and with only a 300km drive today Dad, Renee & Eamon went out for morning tea, while Mum got some washing dry. Then we all went to Woolworths to stock up for the next few days. We departed the very pleasant Esperance around 11.30 and headed north. Norseman is at the intersection of the Eyre...

The weather changed dramatically overnight, and today was actually a bit cool. A nice day for relaxing and enjoying the area. Dad took the car up to Toyota for its 200,000 km service and Renee cooked bacon and eggs for brunch. Eamon joined a cricket game, Renee did acro, Mum the blog, and Dad pottered around! With bikes our only form of transportation for the day, we rode up to the local athletics field first. The lanes had faded away so it took a local jo...

Very warm and windy today, we lounged around this morning, enjoying not having to be anywhere at any set time, or see anything in particular. Eventually we went out for brunch at a very pleasant little place in the Town Centre. We then did the 40km tourist drive that took us around past the beautiful beaches of Esperance including West, Salmon, Fourth and Twilight Beaches. The road curves around the cliff tops, past the wind farm also. We stopped for a look...

We waved goodbye to the Prelc's and just outside the caravan park we drove past the Killarney Heights family that we met 2 days ago at Green's Pool. We had a 490km drive ahead of us today, so left at a reasonable time (ie, after 10am). The road was fairly straight and the beautiful wildflowers are starting to come out, particularly the WA Christmas Tree which has bright orange flowers on medium sized trees. We stopped at Ravensthorpe for a pleasant lunch a...