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Monday, August 13, 2012

Western Australia

STARTING FROSTY’S TRAVELS 

On Saturday 11/8/12 at 2230

we drove out of our drive way in Girrawheen WA. Kiera was very upset about leaving Tammy and not seeing her for a long time. We took both our dogs with us pup pup and sue sue. Kiera went to sleep in her bus sleep before we arrived at our destination. We went past the water pipe line and el Calblanco resort, just before bakers hill. We drove 85.6kms 2hrs and arrived at 0030 at a parking bay just 15kms from Northam WA.

northam wa 009 Parking bay 15kms from Northam                    northam wa 013The pipe line

On Sunday 12/8/2012 at 07.45 We had our first bit of mechanical problems when the bus wouldn’t start. Dave got under the bus with the socket set and tightened the starter motor up and then of we went. We drove the 15kms to Northam and dropped into my Auntie’s place and caught up with her. We also caught up with Jenny & Ian also Glennis & Andy. Then we done all the tourist things in Northam like the Avon River,the tourist bureau and the park. Then we went to Glennis and Andy’s home and stayed there the night. They put on a barbie for us and looked after us very well. We thank them very much for that. They are great family.

northam wa 018 The suspended bridge                    northam wa 045 Historians of Northam                 northam wa 070 Northam weir  

northam wa 055Kiera sitting on the horse made by the Northam Tafe

 northam wa 081Kiera and her great Auntie

On Monday 13/8/2012

We went to the look out and went to town to sort out the internet, we couldn’t connect and we rang bigpond and they were very helpful and talked us through all the steps and got us connected. Thankyou to the gentleman with bigpond. Then we went to the op shop and brought Kiera a couple of dresses and a dog blanket for sue sue. Then we went to Jenny’s and had a look at her church that they built into a home, it looks great, well done guys. We also caught up with Andys brother who also has a bus and is travelling tomorrow.

northam 034 At the look out at Mt Ommany,Northam                                 northam 036 information on Mt Ommany ,Northamnortham 037 looks like a family of snakes

We left Northam at 1750  We travelled the 33kms to Meckering and stopped for some photos then drove to Cunderin for 30kms and pulled up in a parking bay in town for some tea and work on the computers.

northam 053At Meckering ,The golden pipe line    northam 061Mekering  earth quake stats

northam 062The Big Camera at  Meckering

TUESDAY 14/8/2012

We got up and had a look in Cunderin and took photos.

14 004 Railways water tower                      14 005Sign post in Cundernin                14 014Old wagon wheel in front of the railway building                 14 024 The old burnt out tree adjacent to the railway building

Between two flower poles  14 025

Then we drove to Tammin. We went op shopping which we just love,we brought Kiera some clothes and books.We met met with a nice lady in there she was a RN. We got some petrol to see how the bus was going and how it was using petrol. We were pretty happy about it. It only cost us $170 for over 200kms.We drove through Tammin there was nothing there.The next place was Kiellberrin we also drove through there.

The next place we stopped at was Merriden where we had lunch and walked the town and took photos.

merriden 002 Kalgoolie water tower                      merriden 005 draft horse                 merriden 009 our bus and car travelling really well     merriden 014 Anzac memorial     merriden 028War museum        merriden 029Fighter plane from the war    merriden 030Military museum    merriden 031 Tanker

merriden 011The famous people of the district

merriden 012One of the plagues

In Southern Cross we also went fossicking at the old cementary site which is now a parking bay. A top place to have a rest but no camping.

southern cross 005The old cementry site    southern cross 006The whole centemary site     southern cross 010 One of the notice boards that show you who was buried there, there age and what they died from with the year of birth and death.

southern cross 012One of the plagues

southern cross 016Kiera taking her my little pony for a walksouthern cross 017A rabbits burrow

southern cross 018I found a old wheel rimsouthern cross 019An ants nest

southern cross 021A bird in the tree with its youngsouthern cross 023The notice board

southern cross 025The tourist things you can do in the districtsouthern cross 026Map of the district

From here we went to Boorabbin rest area which is large in size. The only thing it hasn’t got is water. We got talking to two ladies from Tasmania who are travelling around Australia.

001Rock Cliff

003more rock cliffs

boorabbin 24 hour rest area 002Our home and 4x4

boorabbin 24 hour rest area 004Toilet block

boorabbin 24 hour rest area 005Dump area

boorabbin 24 hour rest area 008Kiera and Mummy investigating a burnt out tree

boorabbin 24 hour rest area 009Two happy girls

boorabbin 24 hour rest area 010Sunset

WEDNESDAY 15/8/2012

We left Boorabbin rest area at  9.05.117kms to Coolgardie on the way we stopped at the Truckie Memorial and took lots of photo’s

truckies memorial 001The three Truckie’s that died in the bush fire.

A Memorial on each Truckee

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truckies memorial 009Reading the information boards

truckies memorial 013The rock Memorial

truckies memorial 014The special park

truckies memorial 015The walk way to the memorial

then went fosckering around all the old tins and bottles.

The interesting Trees

Don’t know what they are called but they were narrow,smooth and waverly.

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truckies memorial 016    truckies memorial 017    truckies memorial 018truckies memorial 024 Scrap tin. piles of it everywhere         truckies memorial 025 Ant home

truckies memorial 030 This tin got me really puzzled,it had a hole in one end then someone opened the other end

truckies memorial 031A old kettle

truckies memorial 041David digging aroundtruckies memorial 050A big  drum cut out the same way as the smaller tins.

Kiera watched her first movie as we were travelling along (my little pony)

We then arrived at Coolgardie at 12.15. We stopped at the memorial park and had a barbie for lunch. Dave got talking to an Aboriginal lady that use to do Aboriginal tours around the town, very interesting.

coolgardie 001A crushed car showing that speed killscoolgardie 004Entrance into Coolgardiecoolgardie 005A sister in the 1900’scoolgardie 006Mummy cooking the barbie

coolgardie 007coolgardie 008coolgardie 009coolgardie 010Pup pup and Sue sue finally getting alone with each other

Kiera playing on the play ground, and we are playing shop

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coolgardie 023 Near the dump point, the old railway buildingcoolgardie 024

We arrived in Kalgoolie at 1420 38kms away. We stayed at the centinnal park rest area on hanan st.

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The Kokota memorial at Kalgoolie

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THURSDAY 16/8/2012

We left Kalgoolie at 8.55 and drove to Boulder and parked the bus and went for a drive around Boulder. We saw the super pit and Burt st had some lunch at the bakery and then went for a drive.

THE SUPER PIT AT BOULDER

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Boulder 057Mummy and Kiera on 3 different size tires that are used

Photos of mummy and Kiera and Kiera and Daddy

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SOME OF THE OLD MACHINERY THAT WAS USED

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PHOTO’S OF BOULDER

 

Boulder 070     Boulder 071Boulder 072     Boulder 073Boulder 074     Boulder 076Boulder 077     Boulder 079Boulder 080     Boulder 081Boulder 082pigeon hanging around for a feed

From here we drove to Broad Arrow where we are camping the night.

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  FROSTY’S TRAVELS SIGNING

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Then we drove to Ord Banda where the police man shot the bikie.

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From there we drove to Rowler Lagoon

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We found these claw prints we think they are emu

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There is a big camping area there with toilets

On the way back we went to the Ord Banda Cementary. We found some graves there was only 2 with dates on them 1915 and 1919 the rest just had the name.

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On our way back to Broad Arrow we saw this pair of massive eagles unfortunately we only got a photo of 1. they were having a feed on a kangaroo carcus.

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Back at camp and we were just in time for the sun setting and unsual cloud formation.

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FRIDAY 17/8/2012

We Are taking the car to Menzies and Lake Ballard.

MENZIES SCULPTURES

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MENZIES NUMBER PLATES

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PHOTO’S OF MENZIES

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055OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER,travelling in the 4x4

LAKE BALLARD

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SCULPTURES OF THE LAKE

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WITH US AND THE SCULPTURES

 063  Kiera telliing mummy all about the sculpture  074     075  089    086   091

OUR FOOT PRINTS ON THE SALT LAKE

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THE MAIN ISLAND,WHICH WE CLIMBED

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THE LAKE

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Then we went back to Broad Arrow and picked up the bus then drove to Kalgoolie where we stayed at the 24hr parking bay.

SATURDAY 18/8/2012

We went into Kalgoolie and done some washing at the laundry mat. It cost us $30 on a card system. Then we done some shopping and took more photo’s.

The Parking 24HR Parking Bay

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Pictures of Kalgoolie

kal 001     kal 002kal 003     kal 004kal 005The Western Australian Flag with the Swankal 006The laundry

A special treat a pony came to the park

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We left Kalgoolie at 1440 got some petrol and drove to Norseman got there at 1735 and they wanted to charge us $5 a litre for water and I told her we filled up in Kalgoolie and we just wanted to top up, so we didn’t have to pay for it. Tonight we are staying in a parking bay about 10kms East of Norseman. We arrive at 1815.

SUNDAY 19/8/2012

I woke up this morning with Sue sue biting my face at 6am. So I got up had a cuppa and decided to explore the parking bay that we pulled up in last night with the 2 dogs, while’ll Kiera and Dave slept. I was gone about an hour. It is massive with a lot of trees fallen down and plenty of parking for all types of nomads. What a beautiful cold and refreshing morning, loving every bit of travelling. We had pancakes for brekkie.

parking bay 10kms east norseman 001     parking bay 10kms east norseman 002parking bay 10kms east norseman 003     parking bay 10kms east norseman 004parking bay 10kms east norseman 005     parking bay 10kms east norseman 006parking bay 10kms east norseman 007     parking bay 10kms east norseman 008parking bay 10kms east norseman 009     parking bay 10kms east norseman 010parking bay 10kms east norseman 011     parking bay 10kms east norseman 012

Stopped in Balladonia at 11.30 to stretched our legs and took the dogs for a walk..Petrol was $1.88 lt. premium was $2.11lt. There is no water at Balladonia the town is on restristriced water.

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Our dogs are now turned a nice shade of red.

19812 009Pup pup

  19812 010Sue sue

Kiera played her first games since we have been away.We stopped 50kms west of Caiguna for luch in a parking bay.We changed our clocks 45mins ahead bugger we just lost 45mins lol. We saw our first speed limit sign of 110. Dave reached a speed of 107 in the old girl then dropped it back to 80 a comfortable speed.Between Caiguna and Cocklebiddy we have seen a lot of road kill of kangaroos. Petrol at Cocklebiddy was $1.97lt. We are a little dissapointed we have not seen any signs up for the caves, there is a lot in this area, better luck tommorrow. We stopped in a parking bay about 20mins east of Cocklebiddy another very big one. We all went for a walk together and talked with some of the other travellers. Dave set up the satelite and we watched a movie together. Dave checked the bus engine. Dave accidently drove over a kangaroo when he had to go left because of a wide load, now we have kangaroo guts on the front of our 4x4.

THE FIRST LEG OF THE NULLARBOR WA SIDE

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PARKING BAY WE STAYED IN

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   19812 015The guts of a kangaroo19812 016 

  19812 017Someone done car repairs19812 018     19812 01919812 020Can you spot the bird.

MONDAY 20/8/2012

Cold and windy this morning. Dave got up and started to drive straight away, Kiera was still in bed. I made Dave and  Kiera brekkie while’ll we are travelling, then I had some me time blogging. We saw a dead emu that was unsual. we took photo’s of Madura Pass and petrol was still $1.98lt.

  madura pass 009   madura pass 001madura pass 002     madura pass 004     madura pass 005     madura pass 006     madura pass 007      madura pass 010madura pass 011     madura pass 013madura pass 014

We filled up in Munrabilla at $1.49 and a couple of people from the petrol station signed our bus and had a look inside. We got a 10% discount on our fuel that was a bonus., we saved $50. We arrived in Border Village at 12.30 and took photo’s. None of us can believe we are in SA already.

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signing of our bus.

Good Western Australia until next time.

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