After doing the full Mine tour down into the mine, nothing really going on so a bit of a waste of time, there has been 2 land slips in the last couple of months with the last one on Friday am so everything is now closed down until the repatriation work is completed which may take over 12 months.
We left Kalgoorlie behind we headed south towards Norseman with anO/N camp just north of there, still very windy as the locals refer to it as Blovember. Re-fueled and headed out, Kath hasn't been across So it was a new experience for her, she couldn't believe the view from the lookout at Caiguna where the road drops down off Hampton Tablelands and out across the treeless plain. We did the 3 official lookouts and a couple of others made by locals. We also ran into a Sweedish bloke who is cycling around Australia, we had met him at Tom Price weeks ago so it was great to catch up and share a few experiences, his friend who he had met up with a week or so ago has one of those lay down pedal type of cycle and both had a laugh when he related the story of how he fell asleep while peddling.
Camped for the night 20 k's west of Nullarbor, still blowing a gale and bloody cold southerly, Kath wasn't in a good mood as the fruit fly inspection station bloke left a lot to be desired in both attitude and speech, just about emptied our fridge of stuff not even listed on their pamphlet. not happy Jan.
Anyway into Ceduna for fuel, not much to see or do around there so we headed south towards Streaky Bay, what a top little place that is ! heaps of places to visit and the views are fantastic. This country never ceases to amaze me with it's contrasts, one minute there are cliffs with huge waves battering their bases then around the corner there are blinding white beaches with a gentle shore break, rocky bluffs with a colony of breeding sea lions, unreal experience to look down on them just doing their thing at a very leisurely pace. I visited the Power House Museum while Kath caught up with her diary, that Museum is packed with vintage motors of all makes, models and sizes and the best part is that they run. There were 4 older blokes (volunteers) running the show and they are only too happy to chew the cud about the engines and Strat any one of them up if you are interested. My favourite type is the older style Blackstone open crank, theirs was a 1907 job and it started first rotation of the fly wheel, music to my ears, he then started another style of open crank which was driving a water pump - yes it was pumping water so I did a short video of it. Unfortunately closing time came about too dam quick so I had to leave.
Short drive south and camped up for the night, yes, we were in bed by 6pm as it was still a very cold windy night.
Did some sight seeing further down the coast and O/N at Point Drummond, we found a little spot with a bit of shelter from the wind but it was still into bed at 6pm to get warm.
We are now in Port Lincoln as the truck needs a service tomorrow which equates to just over 12000 K's since we left home.
We are off to do a seafood factory tour while that is being done, back here to the van park tomorrow night then away to Adelaide on Tuesday all things being equal.
Stay happy.
Bob n Kath
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