Wednesday 20th to Sunday 24th of July, 2016.
Mandurah to Norseman, by Will.
Kombi Tour of the Goldfields.
So far we have done 683 kilometres over 3 days, that's a huge distance of 230kms per day. Which equals 3 to 4 hours driving per day, our kind of traveling !
Thursday we camped at Gorge Rock, about 30kms east of Corrigin. We arrived a bit late just before 5pm, the sun sets at 5.30pm at the moment. We hurriedly got a feeble fire going, cooked up some chicken & slapped it between a bun with some cooked tomato & zucchini. Must say it didn't taste to great but never mind.
After dinner we chatted with a couple of part time Grey Nomads nearby until the rain started.
Our first camp site was Gorge Rock, about 20kms South East of Kondinin.
The locals built a small dam in the 1950's and created a 100 metre long "Pool".
The next day we did a quick stop in Hyden and ended up stopping 150kms east at the Breakaways. Arriving at the much more sensible time of 3.30pm. The nights are cold, getting down to 0 degrees celcius, so we had a roaring fire to sit next to until 9pm.
Team wiljen, pick up some supplies at Hyden.
Dixybus has been driving great, I did top up the oil, half a litre on our second day. But hadn't checked it before we left so not sure if it's using much.
The dirt roads across from Hyden to Norseman had been a bit chopped up by the rain & Road Trains so was a little rough in places. The van held together & nothing fell off.
On the secondary bitumen backroads (which is our preference) we sit on about 85km/h, on reasonable dirt roads we cruise along at 65km/h, which is quite relaxing.
Jen & I arrived at our friends, Barry & Nicole's place about 1pm in Norseman. Where we'll stay for a couple of nights.
We catch up with our good friends, Baz & Nicole in Norseman.
Jenny pats their new Puppy, Bayley.
Nicole cooks us all up a yummy breakfast.
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