Home                                                                                                     UPDATE 3 SEPTEMBER

The weather was pretty lousy early on  for a clubbie get together but I picked up Tony, a fellow Clemente Owner from Adelaide who was over here baby sitting his grandchildren. We met up with four other clubbie drivers who made us welcome and then went for a drive out of the city to the eastern hills. We checked the build progress on a Westfield belonging to one of the guys.

After the drive we went to a driver training complex near the airport and watched the activities there.

Before leaving Perth I visited the importer of UK Westfields and had a good chat about clubbie registration requirements in our different states. I then went to Freemantle  and after a general look around went to the motor museum there. This had a good collection of some fairly rare cars and was an enjoyable experience.

I then picked up the trailer and headed north. I passed RAAF Base Pearce, an old home of mine many years ago. It seems much bigger than I remember. There were rain showers moving about all over the place but I managed to miss most of them. The next day I followed the coast road for most of the day and there are some delightful "sea change" towns along the way. Most seem to have housing developments going on. I thought that as they were so far from any major areas that this was a bit unusual. I spent the night at one of these towns, Dongara. the caravan park was right on the beach.

I  continued up the coast to Geraldton, a large city with a tremendous amount of roadwork development going on. Major highways and bypasses and Port access roads.  To the north there were more seaside towns. Horrocks, Gregory and Kalbarri. The latter is a fabulous seaside resort town. I stayed there the night. I'm becoming an expert on telling the story of the car to all the questioners. i think I could do it underwater by now. This particular morning I had to go through it 3 times before I could get out of the Caravan park. From here on the wildflowers were out all over the place. they certainly brighten up the trip.

Next stop was Monkey Mia. This is a fully self contained little area that comprises a resort with permanent accommodation, caravan park, shops, restaurant, and a couple of tour operators. it was packed. Even the tent area was totally occupied. they get 200,000 visitors per year so the feeding and interaction with the dolphins is strictly controlled. It was still an excellent experience and well worth making the effort to get there.

After watching the dolphin feeding I headed on to Carnarvon where I'm doing this update. Its the first place I've found that has broadband access for laptops. Also catching up on a few administrative tasks like doing the laundry and so on.