Saturday 20th september

Our last full day of holiday, tommorrow we are going home.
Went to the Fremantle markets this morning. Its an odd mix of souvenirs, clothes, local crafts and fruit and veges.
Had morning tea at a coffee shop in Fremantle, the place to be on a Saturday morning!
Packed a picnic lunch and went out to Guildford. We had been there a couple of weeks ago but the pub had burnt down the night before so the whole main road was closed off. More antique shops in a nice heritage listed town.

Sunday 21st September
Off to the airport today.
So after 4 weeks and over 7000km in the car that it! The end of our fantastic adventure in WA.
We have all had such a great time.

Hope you have enjoyed these snippets from our trip.

Leah, Michael, Natasha and Abbey

Friday 19th September

Back to Perth today via the Tin Horse highway near Kulin. Its a 20km stretch of road where the local farmers (its all wheat here) have a bit of a competition going along the roadside with horses made from old drums and tins and painted up. A fun break in the drive!













Then on through York, Northam and Toodyay to search for treasures at the antique shops.

Wave Rock

Wednesday 17th we drove as far as Merredin for an overnight stop on our way to Wave Rock.
Thursday 18th we arrived at Wave Rock and of course had to do the pose!Also visited nearby Hippo's Yawn

Tuesday 16th September

Spent the day in Kalgoorlie. Visited the Super Pit lookout. Unreal. Massive hole in the ground that is 3.8km long, 1.5km wide and about 350m deep. It was like watching an ant farm until you see how big the trucks actually are. It takes 20mins for them to drive up to the top of the mine!





Scoop from the digger that loads the trucks >




After that we walked around town. Lots of nice old buildings from the goldrush days.


Had lunch at Hammond Park which was like a green oasis. Lots of nice grass and trees, ducks and peacocks and of course swings and cubby houses.

Monday 15th September

Off to Kalgoorlie today, no more coastline until we get back to Fremantle now.
Stopped briefly at Norseman where the Eyre highway meets from the Nullabor.
Apart from the tin camels at Norseman it was just straight and flat and lots of mulga.

Sunday 14th September

Spent the day in Esperance. Wow, if we thought it was windy before we were clearly mistaken!!
Our washing was blowing off the clothesline.
Maybe the number of huge turbines at the wind farms all along the south coast should have hinted to us how windy it gets along here!!

We drove around the tourist drive past the pink lake, wind farm and all the beaches. The surf was so huge that there wasn't actually much beach though, just waves pounding on rocks.

We went to a local collectables/machinery restoration fair that was on. This was a pretty big day for the locals and was quite big for the size of the town.
Natasha and Abbey had their first ride on a pony called Cinnamon.

Saturday 13th September

Headed to Point Ann today on our way to Esperance. Amazing!! It was well worth the hour drive along the corrugated dirt road through the national park to get there. Still blowing a gale but the whales (Southern Rights) were in this little bay about 50m from the viewing platform. They all had their calves with them as this is one of the places they come to give birth. All up we saw about 10 in the bay and that was with the water really choppy. Apparently its not uncommon to see up to 40 whales in the bay.