Author Archives: Paul Richardson

Today we are cleaning the van and Elisa is doing some shopping as we apparently have to feed ourselves for the next few days.

This weekend is the Celebrations / IGA Carnival. There are twenty-two teams of four players taking part this year. There are three games of fourteen ends on the Saturday after which the top twelve will play in section one and the other ten will play in section two on the Sunday. Having played our threeContinue reading “25th – 26th July”

Having had a lie in until 8AM to make up for not sleeping have put the awning back up while Elisa has made breakfast. Have relaxed before heading to the bowls club for a few ends rollup ready for tomorrows competition. The rest of our team has just arrived at the caravan site so justContinue reading “Exmouth 24-7-26”

A walk along the front before setting off at 10 AM for a 180kM drive to Exmouth. The road upto Exmouth has been sorted out after Cyclone Norrel went through in March. You can see rubbish on the fences along the side of the road where the flood waters had been. There are a lotContinue reading “Coral Bay to Exmouth”

A late start to the day for us 8:00am, had breakfast off down to the beach so Elisa can go for a snorkel, i take my chair to sit on the beach and make sure she doesn’t drown. Even though she is only 5M off the beach in 2M of water she still needs supervising.Continue reading “Coral Bay”

With not being able to book in at Coral Bay until 1 PM we packed up the van ready for departure and then went for a walk down to the port to kill time before leaving for a 2 1/2 hour drive to Coral Bay. The roads are very quite going North but quiet busyContinue reading “Carnarvon to Coral Bay”

Woke up to a cloudy start to the day but having seen the news that Spain had beaten Argentina the day got better and the clouds began to disappear. After breakfast we drove to the Canarvon Space Museum (for those that don’t know this site helped during the tracking of the Apollo space Missions inContinue reading “Canarvon”

Today is dry and we get packed up and on the road by 8:45am. We are going to be driving for around six hours to drive the 500 plus kM. The roads are reasonably quiet and able to keep a steady speed of 100kM . We arrive in Canarvon around 3pm and get setup andContinue reading “Dongara to Canarvon”

We have woken up to a dry sunny day and are going to take a walk down to the front and around the port. The caravan park is emptying very quickly this morning as people with kids are heading back down to Perth as it is the end of the school holidays (2 weeks) forContinue reading “Dongara 18th July 2026”

We have finally finished packing and are on the road by 8:30am. Weather is dry but quiet a lot of mist as we depart Bunbury. Our first nights stop is to be at Dongara approx 540kM north. We get through Perth without any major holdups and are now on the Brand Highway. Weather is startingContinue reading “Day One”