Back with Dave and Sara

We are on our way home again. We have travelled 10.500 kms sofar, had 2 blow-out tyres on the caravan, a broken window, paid up to $1.796 per litre petrol. Now back back in Mandurah where the price is back to $1.18. On the way we also bought our fruit and vegies by the piece e.g. $ 1.10 per one small tomato, 80c for one potato, 55c. for one onion, $1,25 per orange or apple etc., no wonder wages are high, they have to be. But here down south everything is back to normal, thank goodness.
Megan is a real joy.Feeds well and lets her mother get a good sleep most nights.She loves a little chat and gives us lots of smiles.
We went to the zoo on Sunday. Aiden covered 3 times the distance we did. He ran everywhere ! Megan looked around and enjoyed the trees. Perth's Zoo is in a very beautiful setting with giant Bamboo and lots of palmtrees. Lots of displays are in junglestyle, very much worth a visit.
Opa on baby duty.
After a couple of drizzly days, Perth put on a glorious day with warm sunshine. Lots of people about, but plenty of room in this zoo, we all had a great day and enjoyed the nights' rest afterwards.

Quobba

This is the look when you're in country where there are cattle - the flies get into your eyes ears nose and mouth.
Quobba Station is south of Coral Bay with a very rugged coastline in between .We camped near the blowhole. Here the sea is very calm - on the day we left you couldn't get near this outcrop and the water was spoutting up to 20 metres high.

I thought the sea was rough but the waves wash right over these rocks.People have lost their life when fishing here. It's the Indian Ocean and king waves can come up at any time.

The sanddunes were covered with wild flowers. They have had quite a bit of rain so these come up and bloom very quickly.The lighthouse in the middle was the only light at night -except for the stars.

Karijini National Park

Thanks to Annemieke we visited this amazing park - lots of gorges which had pools and streams at the bottom.Hank went for a swim in the cool water.As you can see it was crystal clear.
We went for beautiful walks.The hardest bit was to get down into the gorge.
The river at the base of this gorge is down about 700 metres.Quite often our legs were shaking just looking down over the edge.

This is Knox Gorge - our favourite walk - and we didn't meet anyone.We had a really good time,the weather has been warm and sunny ,except for a shower to settle the dust.We were covered in red dust and really needed a shower after 5 days.

Tom Price -the iron ore mine

On the 26th of July after many hours of driving we arrived at a small oasis. It is the town of Tom Price,where all the inhabitants are somehow connected with the iron ore mine. Vicki wants to take this monster for a ride, but there seems a bit of trouble.....
a loose nut
and a flat tyre and just when we left the jack at home. The machines here are enormous but in the inside of the open-cut mines they seem to be just little Tonka trucks
See if you can find Vicki driving the Tonka dump truck. Anyway the whole tour we did through the mine was very impressive. We also visited our friends Stephen and Barbara and their 2 sons who have establised themselves in this very interesting town.