Friday 4 September 2015

Nearly Home

After leaving Sandstone we moved slowly South, sometimes East going through small Wheatbelt towns that we hadn't been through for a long time. Managed to find some great free camps along the way.

One of them was Latham Community Centre, a free camp at a very small town, no shop, just a PO operating for one hour each morning and a small school which is due to close at the end of the year. The community Centre was new, great shower and toilets, looked after by a resident who was very passionate about the area and appreciated a donation, with the donations she plans to plant trees and will put a tag on with names of the people, we hope to go back one day and see if there is a tree marked Brian, Gill and Bentley.....

Our next site was an abandoned town called Minnivale, still a few houses around and the ruins of a bakery, we had heavy rain driving into here, but the next morning was fine and we had a walk around for photos.

We camped at another abandoned town, Kwolyin, 40ks from Bruce Rock, great free campground with toilets and camp kitchen, nothing at all left of a town, except the church. We stayed here two nights and did some fossicking around, came up with 20 cents from around the church. One morning it was zero degrees and frost on the windscreen, we were glad of our gas heater that morning.

Last night we camped out side Lake Grace at the lake and today we have travelled to Porongurups Caravan Park, only 50ks from home but we wanted one more night on the road......
Over width truck coming into Paynes Find, would be about 8 metres wide, glad we were parked and not on the road
Didn't see many wildflowers as I thought, but two together here
Our camp at Minnivale 
Ruins of old bakery, Brian got a good photo of the inside of the oven
Ettamogah Pub, Corrigin 
Our camp at Kwolyin
Rupert came to play, Border Collie according to his owner
Jaffles for lunch
Good camp kitchen at Kwolyin 
Camped by Lake Grace
Canola fields as we approach Stirling Ranges
Bluff Knoll Cafe, still going, got hot chips here for lunch before heading into Porongorups 
I like to put the quotes from my calendar on the wall, plus photos of course
All my granny squares, 36 of them, just need to sew them all together...

Well we are home now, couldn't send blog last night, easy run into Albany and parked van in the driveway before a shower of rain..... Lots of unpacking to do, Bentley very excited to be home, ran around and around the back garden 

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