Home now

14.10.12  Sunday.  We're at home now.  We left Cliff Heads on Friday.  I'd not been out of the caravan the previous two days because of the wind and flies.  When we first arrived it was great, there were a few flies and bees but we weren't too concerned.

By Friday Steve was taking Timmy for a walk with my fly net on to keep them off his face.  I don't know where they came from, there were thousands of the little suckers.

We did some shopping in Dongara and had called in Geraldton a few days before.  We leave Timmy in the caravan now when we go to the shops.  Fortunately his little legs can't get him onto the bed so he sleeps on the floor under it.

We have a list of stuff we have to get before we head off to Tasmania.  We've spoken to a few people and Steve has almost decided on solar panels to keep the battery topped up together with an inverter that does something with the t.v.  We also need a digital satellite finder because the one iTech sold us is worse than useless.  In fact I would go so far as to say that we should have researched satellites more comprehensively and bought a different make.

Steve has made a few short films.  I'm sure you'll find this one particularly riveting.

We've got the 'guide to Free-Camping in Tasmania' by Sue and Steve Collis and we'll be using it together with Camp 6 (or 7 if its published) when we leave in February.

We come back to Australia in April and were going to spend time in the Eastern States but we now have a new baby due in April so it's good that we're free spirits and not time poor because we may have to change plan a to plan b or even c.

Forgot to tell you:  In which country is it acceptable to get off your push bike and attend to your toilet needs (knickers and shorts around her knees showing her thighs and bum) on the gravel a metre from the bitumen?

We've seen and passed this couple before, just not that much of her although it could have been her in a bikini and fly net over her face a couple of days ago on her way to the toilet with her toilet roll in her hand.  Steve has waved to them a few times and they've ignored him.  Obviously from a country where privacy and discretion is not embraced.