Dongara

I haven’t been a very enthusiastic blogger since we got back from Europe, so I thought I better get it up to date. I haven’t been enthusiastic because we were staying in parks and towns we’d stayed in before and apart from more wind and drier conditions, not much had changed.

We really enjoyed our few days in Kalbarri-especially fishing out along the beautiful river, but left Saturday and went to Geraldton (another park we’ve stayed in). Brice is staying there while he carts wheat for a couple of months so it was great to catch up with him-sad to see the state of his health though. In a good year, he has 13 trucks there, this year he has only one so you can imagine there is not much wheat around. The farmers with any wheat are going to get good prices, and the price of bread will rise.

Tuesday we drove less than 70kms to Dongara and plan to stay here 4 nights. This is a new town and park for us at last and it makes a nice change. The park is small and friendly and has absolute waterfront (which would be nice if the wind would stop blowing!). We are about 500 metres from the boat ramp but it doesn’t look like the boat will be going in at this stage. The boat harbour has a big wall which Russ fished off last night and caught lots of (undersized) fish. Tonight the park puts on free nibbles at the BBQs-we have to BYO drinks. I like parks that do that for their visitors and wish more would.

This is a really pretty town and after a drive round yesterday, we both felt it was one of the first places we’ve come to that we could consider moving to. We probably couldn’t afford to, but it’s nice to dream.