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On the Road Again.
West
 

Hi to all our friends once again Bianka and I hope you all have had a great Xmas and a good start for 2013.(this is late coming sorry)

I must say first I did not finish our blog for the year 2012 due to car problems and not having much to write about  as we virtually traveled straight home from Darwin  via Brisbane, in Melbourne we once again stayed at our Daughters place, till Easter and had a great stay as usual, but tiring, never stopped visiting.

So now we are on the road again this is our fifth year running.

We  traveled  from Melbourne to Adelaide, (stayed for one night as I wanted the hydrolic jack looked at), then along the Nullarbor, stopping only at free-camps overnight.

Cannot go past showing this loo again

Ceduna for the Anzac Day service, trip was uneventful, weather was fine and the wind low.

Oh the Flies

Norseman to Coolgardie and free-camped at B0delin not a bad spot, for chicken and chips at the servo, onto Perth to see Paul and Fran at Mount Helene, nice couple of days  catching up, shopping etc. than the Great Northern highway and what a highway? I  think it is the busiest for roadtrains and lonely not much to sight see, you just drive and drive

Our first stop along side the road, with 4 big 50 metre road trains and  road trains traveling past all night, but we slept alright.

 Than Mount Magnet and some, (what we thought might be of interest),   sight seeing turned out to be a 37km flop, not much to see.

Gold separation mount

Overnight stay at a nice little park friendly and inexpensive, did the usual, washing etc and early departure for Meekatharra, a look around also in the township ofCue

The Masonic lodge in Cue

The warrior in Cue atop the Town

Bank of NSW long Closed

These jail houses are all over Australia like this one in Cue

  and free camped at Gascoyne River later in the day.

This question is  for Joshua and Montanna

Which way are these trucks going are they going to crash into us? or are they passing each other or are they going opposites way and the truck on the left is being towed ? what do you think. remember we are in the car looking forward and driving?

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Moving big ore loaders like the one below

How is this for size

Were going to stay at Newman but being Sunday nothing was open and not much to do so we travelled on and stopped at Mt Robinson Rest area what a nice spot with the mountain as a back drop.

A panoramic shot of Mt Robinson

Mt Robinson from a different view

Sunset at Mt Robinson

Had intentions to go to Kirrijini NP but ended up traveling onto Tom Price to see Deb and Nudge and family had dinner that night, nice to see them so well and settled in.

Straight though Port Hedland next stop The Greys free-camp and its dust, found a nice spot but ended up shifting, next morning due to some &%$#)**^  nice person with a Genny and its loudness all night.
Did an oil change here stayed for 2 nights very hot during the day 35degrees nice at night though.

Decided to travell on to Pardoo Station for 3 nights this is a station stay and not bad tried some fishing here Bianka caught a large and a small cat fish I only caught one never mind it was fun.

Bianka looking for that elusive Fish

Eighty Mile Beach next 2 nigts fished and had a few bites caught nothing, so did everybody else on the beach, I think it was the wind, my excuse and I will stick with that

Barn Hill next 3nights, first day hot 33degrees, and we thoroughly washed the van and Car, that night it rained and made the dust into nice solid ground for when we left so the car and van stayed clean "hooray" had a nice spot on the cliff top.

Sunset Barn Hill Station from the Cliff

Where going to stay in  a free-camp prior to Broome but ended up going in one day early  and just as well, that night we had 54mm of rain and the next thank goodness it was warm.

So here we are in Broome now  and have been for the last 3 weeks and intend to be here a little while yet.

So far we have done the Market, seen the Stairway to the moon again, watched the Sunset with fish and chips, shopping and Happy hour with Marilyn and Ian every night great life.

The moon is already making its mark

Ready for the sunset and the nibbles and chardy

Isn't it beautiful

Could call this the Stair Case to the Sun

 Oh yeah had lots of Bunnings fixes.

This will be the only blog for a while as we are stationary here, but I will put photos on the blog from time to time.

Cheerio from Bianka & Sig