Just in case someone is beginning to think that we are lost I had better send an email.

 

After leaving Esperance on Wednesday the rain cleared up about where the turnoff to Hopetoune (?) is.

It was still raining fairly heave a bit back down the track at Munglinup where we refueled at $1.55 / ltr.  54 litres, we had travelled 504 km and still had over 1/2 tank left.

Because we did not know if Ravensthorpe had come to life again after the nickel mine had closed a few years back (open again now) we fuelled at Munglinup.

As it happened, Ravensthorpe is now thriving again and the fuel was only $1.37 / ltr.

That night we camped at Overshot Hill Nature Reserved where there were 2 other caravans and a backpacker van.  Thursday was a cold 5 deg. morning.

Lake King was the next photo stop before travelling a straight 60 km. to Newdegate where the road had a couple of turns through town.  It was coffee time there.

Another 50 km straight stretch of road took us to Lake Grace.  Found and used the dump point there and logged it’s position for Camps Australia wide.  We have found a few new ones this trip.

Next stop was Dumbleyung, for a snack and coffee.  Lake Dumbleyung is where Sir Donald Campbell set his water speed record in 1964.  He also set the land speed record on Lake Eyre the same year.

 

We arrived at Bev’s cousins place at Wagin around 2.30 pm.   Have been fairly busy since then doing things.  Will be leaving here sometime later this week.  The temperature was 7 degrees yesterday morning, 10 this morning.

 

Happy mother’s day to all the mothers out there!