DAY 166 It is a cool morning this morning, Andy is already out of bed (he has his early hat on again!), I get up at 7.00 and meet him in the camp kitchen, within a second the kettle is on for my morning tea. Andy is busy trying to get some of the photos back up online after the server problems that our Travelblog hosts have had I bring the breakfast stuff over, no bacon today, just toast and marmite. We check email and the news of the day is that a friend’s dog died, poor Duke he was a lovely dog, another friend bought a pair of Jimmy Choo’s while holidaying in New York, that is just torture, I ponder on my now grubby pink flip flops (thongs) and wonder if Jimmy Choo makes ... read more

Day 164 6.00 bang on and the Kookaburra’s started their dawn chorus, there was a lot of them so it was rather noisy. A short while later they stopped so be drifted back to sleep. Waking at Noble Falls to a very warm morning, we were so snug in our joint sleeping bag that neither of us wanted to get out and put the tea on. This is so unusual for me (Andy) as I have always loved getting out of bed early to enjoy the morning, where Caroline is the opposite end of the scale and enjoys the evenings. Eventually Caroline roused and I followed shortly, as we had moved the gas cooker for safety reasons, it needed reconnecting, which Caroline struggles with. The morning was hot and very sunny so we sat under the ... read more

DAY 162 It was Saturday morning in Kalgoorlie, the sun was coming up the air was cool and a lovely refreshing morning to wake up in. Andy was up and at it early, he wanted to type the blog for yesterday, I however chose to stay in bed until 7.00 when it was a little bit more of a reasonable time to get up. I joined Andy in the camp kitchen, and made tea and toast, before long we were joined by Brian and Lorraine (they own the A40) and John and Judith (the Swiss couple, well John is English). We are all moving on today, so it was to get on with breakfast pack up, shower and go. Once again we chatted, it was a lively breakfast, Judith says that John makes the best porridge, ... read more

DAY 161 A cool morning, it was lovely and refreshing, but with the sunshine it promises to be another hot day. Andy was out of bed early, not sure how early but I believe before 5.55, I surfaced at 7.00 and found Andy in the camp kitchen. The electric kettle in the camp kitchen is not working so we are having to use our camp kettle on the single burners, which is no problem but everytime someone comes in you watch them fiddle with the kettle then we have to tell them it is not working. After breakfast Andy drives the Patrol down to the Nissan Dealer for its service. I stay back at camp to get on with some chores, there is always something that needs doing and today we are going to clean the ... read more

Hi All, Just thought we would share a blog milestone with you all. I was checking the word count this morning, (How sad am I ) and we have reached 201,001 words, I didn't think we new that many. The people at the management of the blog site, may have to install Kangaroojacks own server for this one, as I may turn out to be huge. Photo's on the site are at 1741, and blog hits 12,894, so its all going OK. We hope you are all well, and thank you for reading our drivel. Love to you all Kangaroojack ... read more