Day 52: Well the old girl on her birthday yet again. My younger sister being the first with birthday wishes - lovely of her but it was 5:03 am over here not the 8:03 she thought. And so the morning continued with 'where are you and what time is it' calls from various friends and family. Thank you so much for thinking of me. We have had a quiet day as the next four are on the Nullarbor again and boring as with lots of driving so I just felt like a vegetation ...

Day 51: Our day started with a search for some fresh fish for dinner. I found a place 6 kms out of town and we drove to this tiny town of Bandy Harbour - no such place he grumbled so nothing as usual. Then as we turned there it was. We were so early they hadn't put out the fish, all very fresh and guaranteed to have been caught locally, looking forward to dinner tonight as the Groper looks fabulous. After we dropped our purchases back to the van we set off f...

Day 50: Well, Esperance is partying tonight on the Palmer money. We had booked the car in for service about 3 weeks ago and so we knew we would be up for some funds. The boy arose early and was up at 8am at the Auto place. By 9 they had rung us saying our rear brakes were cactus, yes replace please and the tyres were not good. Yep, we knew we were going to replace them on arrival home so said don't worry about them, we had checked them and the outsides were ...

Day 49: Out of Hopetoun by 9 as usual but did not get to give the very much required baths as the one bay we required was being used and someone said we really didn't need it. Hah he was so wrong but after travelling another 145 kms into white moths doing a kamikaze across our windscreens it does get to the point we cannot see out of the glass as it is so smeared. We cut across country to avoid about 80kms of roadway, Sam our GPS was not happy at all kept telli...