Kimberley 2023

Sweet Jesus, that was a bad night… not only did we start hearing the very familiar speedway sound that went on until 23.00 but also the late arrivals to the next carpark spot managed to attached towels to their roof tent that were flapping in the wind all night. They then decided to pack at 4am while talking and talking. I slept through it but poor Kat did not so was not feeling the freshest this morning.
We left the carpark just before 7am, refuelled, got ourselves a coffee (the choices of vendors were impressive, by the way the town was quite impressive in a way - they even had Good Grocer, Dome and two shopping plazas! Supposedly the BHP injected 30mil to develop this modern mining town).
The drive was uneventful, with rather boring scenery. We saw heaps of budgies, big wedge tail eagles, goats, cows, kangaroos and even a dingo (or a wild dog - who knows), we passed a few huge oversized trucks carrying all different parts or big mining trucks and that is about it. I can report a total chips relapse that we experienced in Mt Magnet and got ourselves some 🍟😇. We decided to be good tomorrow and stay away from crap food 🤞🏻.
We parked at Paynes Find for our last night. The site resembles yesterday’s carpark except its not well levelled and is on gravel. The bonus of this site is that it comes with constant humming… 24 hours every day humming produced by the generator that is the only source of power for Paynes Find - how bloody ridiculous - what happened with solar power! So we will be hummed rather than roared into sleep… hahaha….
The temperature dropped significantly today. We started with 13 degrees in Newman and that was ongoing until Kumarina when the temperature starting raising. The maximum we observed today was 20.5 degrees. It is currently 16 degrees with expected 7 degrees tomorrow morning… 🥶
After sitting on our bums all day we had a quick stroll to the Paynes Find Gold battery, which is usually open during wildflower season for tourists but is currently closed until further notice. We cooked ourselves goulash soup that my sister sent me sometime ago and had a Vienna sausage with it. Nice and warm - that will keep up going throughout the night.
Today we drove 762km and are sitting on 8224km so far.
Well, that is a last night of our epic trip and we are both looking forward to our own bed tomorrow and also to big snuggles from our doggies that will be delivered by their pawrents tomorrow evening. Yey!!!!Meer informatie