On the Road Again

After 9 fantastic weeks in Perth, we left Wednesday for our winter in the central west fishing. It was hard to go becuase we realise it's the first time in many, many years we've had so much family all in one place (and it will probably never happen again).

Our departure was delayed when we discovered one of the van's stabilising legs had seized up. Russ had to remove it, drive to the suburb of Welshpool to get a new one, then come home and fit it. I wasn't too upset as it gave me more time with Dan, Verity and Kobie who had come over to say goodbye.

We had an easy drive to Dongara where we'd planned to book into the Big4 we have stayed at several times before. It came as a bit of a shock to find it booked out. We ended up staying in another park closer to town-it wasn't as sparkling clean but it was fun. We could have stayed for free if we'd taken the boat off and taken the manager out craying, but it's too much like hard work for a couple of days.

Today we drove 110kms to Northampton (just passed Geraldton) where we'll stay a couple of nights. This park looks a bit tired too, but just changed management a week ago and they are working their butts off to clean it up. You could eat your breakfast off the ablution block floor. It cost us $20 for the first night and $15 for every one ofter that. It's $2 for a load of washing. It's cheap.

Coming through Geraldton, we stopped and bought 3kg of tomatoes, 4 large green capsicums, 2 fresh corn, 2 zucc, a bag of apples and a pumpkin for $11. Here in Northampton we bought honey, grapefruit marmalade, organic oranges and lemons for $15. I reckon we have enough food to tide us over for a very long time now!

Tomorrow we are going to pack a picnic and go out to Horricks Beach to have a fish and check it out for next time we are up (or down) this way. We've heard it's excellent and the park out there is good too.

Sunday we are booked at Shark Bay (Denham) for a month and I'm excited to have an ensuite again as I love that part of the park. Brice will be arriving for about the last 10 days of our stay.