We headed off from Mieke’s on Monday morning loaded up with left over Mussaman and Navratan curries, Red rice pork and Samosa filling courtesy of Irene and Ritchie and Boeterkoke (Dutch butter cake) from Mieke. I wonder how long it will take GMan to forgive me for forgetting to pick up the home made Citrus tart from Mieke’s fridge? We reciprocated with homemade Lime Butter which Chris whipped up on Saturday. Less than 40 minutes later we headed out from Coolgardie on the next part of our adventure. We set off to rediscover some of the areas we used to frequent when we lived in the region. Much to our surprise we discovered that there is now a tourist trail nearly 1000 kms long which explores many of the areas we planned to visit. Because of ... read more

Approximately 4 years ago Kalgoorlie Boulder was hit by an earthquake which caused a lot of damage, the most severe in one block of the main street in Boulder - Burt Street. Boulder has long been the poor relative of Kalgoorlie but as a result of this earthquake there is a project to revitalise the area with a Heritage upgrade underway. The signs are on the scaffolding as you enter underneath it. Shops are operating for very long periods of time under these conditions. Buildings which have been completed are very impressive. We went to the Recreation hotel for lunch as it was recommended for their wood fired pizza, but the oven had not yet been lit so we settled for very posh looking chicken schnitzels. As we entered the restaurant, Sheffield's, named after a former ... read more

When I was in my 20's a couple of men in Kalgoorlie got the idea to dam a creek about 12 kms from town and to turn it into a lake and water recreation reserve. It became an eventuality and Lake Douglas, one of the blokes names was Dougie Daws. There was never a lot of water in it over the years and the actual dam wall leaked, however it did provide a nice picnic and camping spot for the weekends. Also a lover's lane of sorts. After the construction work was completed parts of the surrounding area were very barren but now regrowth has reached maturity and the area is a haven to bird life and there are plenty of shrubs just beginning to flower - most especially eramophlias. The amount of bird song is ... read more

I last wrote early on Monday 26th just a couple of days ago when we planned to go and check out the Lincoln National Park and were stuck in the van because it was raining so hard. Instead we decided to drive the 45 kms to Port Lincoln and treat ourselves to a lunch of fresh fish and chips. I can see your face from here Barbara. We headed off into the rain and managed to get to PL in time for an early lunch and went hunting for a fish and chip shop. We found one and it was closed. In desperation we went into some stores and asked the staff. They all looked at us blankly and the consensus was the fish and chip shop which was closed or go to a hotel. What ... read more

Having received excellent news about Robert’s recovery we headed off from Woomera on Monday 19thMay around 8:30 am. Needless to say he has recovered extremely well and is coming home today, 6 days, amazing. Before leaving we needed to get a replacement gas bottle, ours was empty, and decided to invest in another tub of a wonder product we discovered “Tru Blue Garlic Butter Spread”. Made in Maddington WA. Enormously expensive in Woomera but just in case... We headed to Pimba to top up the fuel tanks and bumped into Wayne’s mates from the Ulysses club again. Once on the road to Port Augusta we discovered we were roughly 150 kms away, we had not taken into consideration the 200 kms we travelled from Brinkworth to Port Augusta in our calculations of how far we had ... read more