The Last Bit of our Holiday

16^th  - 18^th September 2012

After finishing our trip down the Canning Stock Route we camped south of Wiluna. Overnight it was cooler then what we had on the CSR; we had to put the Doona back on the bed. We kept travelling south to Kalgoorlie still seeing wildflowers along the roadside. In Kalgoorlie we went to the Superpit lookout, it’s the largest hole we’ve ever seen, the Dump Trucks working looked like matchbox toys. The pit is part of the Gold/Nickel mining in Kalgoorlie. We camped 10 Ks south of Kalgoorlie after travelling 498 Ks.

We arrived in Esperance to get Phill & Shell’s cruiser checked out as we were still jump starting it every morning; both of their batteries had died, that was better then what we thought the problem could have been. We didn’t have be back at work until October, so we decided to catch up on our washing & restock some groceries & head out to Cape Le Grand National Park near Esperance.     

19^th  - 22^nd September 2012

We arrived at Cape Le Grand & made camp in the campground. We had a couple of great days touring the area with a drive around the coast to Hellfire Bay, Thistle Cove & Lucky Bay, the beaches are differently the whitest beaches in Australia & the water is so blue and crystal clear. Dale, Phill & Shell had a go at fishing but didn’t catch anything. We watched a couple of magical sunsets. On Friday afternoon the park ranger, Cameron, came around and told us to make sure we put everything away as overnight there were going to be some strong winds. Strong winds was an understatement, we found out later the winds were about 80 Ks. We had just gone to bed when it started, we didn’t get much sleep as we were shaken & rolled all night, there were a few showers of rain. We got up at 6.30; the wind had died down a bit. Un be known to us Phill & Shell had slept in their cruiser. The wind had dried out the camper so we packed up & headed back into Esperance & had breakfast at McDonalds. The winds were forecast for the next couple of days so we headed back to the farm at Cascade.

Our holiday is over; we travelled 9955 Ks in 81 days. While we were at Grand Le Grand we tried to work what was the best part of our holiday, none of us could pin point one thing that stood out, we all agreed we had seen some of the most beautiful & amazing parts of Australia, from the Sunset cruiser at Timber Creek, the Chopper flight over Mitchell Falls, all of the Gorges along the Gibb River Road & Tunnel Creek, all of the Canning Stock Route, Horizontal Falls, the National Parks - Karijini, Millstream & Cape Le Grand, all the rivers & beaches we camped near, the sunsets & sunrises, all the wonderful people we met in the many places we travelled.  All of the above made our time away with Phill & Shell a very enjoyable and memorable holiday.

 We spend our first week back at Cascade unpacking, cleaning & washing everything in & out of the camper & cruiser and getting used to the cold weather. Phill has been offered a job by Rob & Christine King, one of the neighbours here at Cascade, driving their chaser bin during the harvest. We helped Phill & Shell move down to the King’s property, it’s about 25Ks from us, the weekend of the grand finals. Then Shell flew over to Cairns to see their children & meet their new grandson Nate who was born while we were away.