Time to Begin to Head East

 The time has come where we now begin our journey east and with that heading home. To begin we took an unusual route up and over the Brockman Highway, through the Ellis Creek State Forest, oh so pretty is a way that we didn't expect. It was SO foggy and by the time we got to Bridgetown, although the fog had lifted, it was bitterly cold, and I have to admit I had a hot chocolate (which I really shouldn't have had, but, very yummy and warm). 

From there it was time to head towards Albany, however due to the time it took us, and the fact that we were having to cut days from our trip, sadly we did not manage to see anything of Albany. Maybe another time, if and when we return to check out this south west corner of the state.

We continued on to a town called Ravensthorpe, that in itself does not really have that much going for it, but it is somewhere where we can leave the vans and make a day trip up to Wave Rock. It is a good 200kms from where we stayed, and about 3/4 of the way up, the weather began to turn bad. However, we had come all this way and we were determined to check out this great natural phenomenon in the shape of a huge wave - rain and all.

By the time we got back to the car, we were all very, very wet. The cafe there was extremely inviting and a lovely light lunch was had at a table right in line of the heaters - yes!

Can't tell you much about the trip back to Ravensthorpe, as I think I slept most of the way.

Continuing our trek east, and becoming increasingly concerned about the Covid situation in the eastern states of the country, we decided that we would continue with our planned route and make a decision that night when we set up the vans for the night at Norseman. Why make the final decision on our route home at Norseman? 

Well, Norseman is the town in far south-east of WA which is the beginning of the Nullarbor which would take us into South Australia, (see the line on the map in the bottom right hand corner that heads east - that is the Eyre Highway which goes across the Nullarbor), then continue on into New South Wales and continue up into Queensland and home - just 11 days 'til we got home if we continued this way.

As you can see it is not looking all that promising, so will leave it here for now.

'Til next time,

June