Final Report for this Trip

We are heading home -

We left Mt Magnet on the 30th August heading for Mullewa to see the wild flowers but not longer after we had left we had a phone call from my niece, Lisa, to say that my brother-in-law, Ted, is very unwell and not expected to last too long.  Graham and I decided that we didn't think with this in mind we would enjoy the rest of our trip and we decided to start heading home.  We really had done all that we wanted to do in the west and we were going to do the South Australian Peninsulas on the way home - but we can do this at another time.

Anyway we turned round and headed for Kalgoorlie - we had 3760 kms to travel so we decided to go for it.  We didn't quite make Kalgoorlie on Tuesday - we stayed at a free camp about 170 km north of Kalgoorlie.  On Wednesday we were up and on the road by 6-15am and we did about 700 km staying at another free camp on the Nullarbor.  We went to the Head of the Bight on Thursday.  There were quite a few whales in but they weren't doing much, lots of babies with their mothers.  We were going to stay at the Head of the Bight  for the night but decided that we could do a few more kilometres whilst we still had daylight and we stayed at a free camp (Yalata West).  Up early again on Friday and we drove to Port Augusta - we were going to try and get to Crystal Brook but it was just too far.  Today we came through to Horsham.  We have averaged about 725 km per day.

Tomorrow we will head home - it is only 366 km so it will be a relatively short trip.

In Kalgoorlie we had to get diesel and a bit of shopping - guess what - the only park we could get with the caravan on was right outside of one of the brothels.  It was working brothel and they do daily tours - I wonder what they show you on the tour.

Head of The Bight

Mother & Baby