I left Perth when it started really raining, and headed into the tropical north of Australia, a land of eternal sunshine! On Friday when we left it rained pretty badly, and it rained most of the time when we were driving to our first destination, but miraculously the rain stopped when we got there. That was the Pinnacles dessert, a very strange phenomenon of stone poles, different heights, sizes and shapes, just stuck there in the middle of the sand. I can't say it's an amazing place but really interesting. We continued driving further north and stopped for the night in a tiny town called Northampton, where we stayed in a backpacker called "the old convent" and it's really a building of an old convent. It felt a bit spooky to go through the angels sculptures
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