My last post was, I believe, on Tuesday 30/8/11. On Wednesday I received 2 bits of news - the first was that my glasses had arrived. We were very excited because that meant we could hit the road again on Thursday. The second wasn't as good - Royce's mum was in hospital. We spent a lot of time trying to find out information - without much success. We did get to speak with her briefly and she didn't sound too good. We spent Wednesday night planning flights home (if it proved necessary) and looking at other options to get home quickly if necessary. Thursday morning we decided to go into Karratha itself where the phone signal was better (it kept dropping out when we were at Cleaverville). Still had trouble getting information but did find out she was transferred to the RAH. More phone calls and still none the wiser. It may be her heart or it may be medication related. We decided we would have to hang around in Karratha for a bit longer to see what we could find out. We eventually decided that there didn't appear to be a need for us to be home in the next few days but we felt we should get home as soon as possible so we planned a fast track trip home - no more sight seeing or holiday mode!
We were very disappointed that we would have to cut the trip short but it can't be helped and it is important that we get home and make sure Mum is OK and see what, if anything, may need to be done. She doesn't seem to know herself what is going on, although she has been discharged from hospital now and I believe they have changed her medication. She sounded a lot better when we spoke to her yesterday.
We have travelled for 3-4 hours each day then set up camp for the night, except for yesterday when we didn't like the site we had planned to stay at and didn't arrive at the next one until after 6pm. It was dark, windy and cold and we nearly got lost in a tiny little town called Burracoppin!
At one of the camp sites (Barradale) we were hit by a 'wurlie wurlie'. Luckily we didn't have the awning out but it seems to have done something to our caravan door and it is a bit tricky closing it now. We will have to check it out when we get home.
On another day, when leaving Carnarvon we saw 3 'wurlie wurlies' that were very large, but luckily they were some distance from the road.
At one of the camps we met a young woman heading back to home (Northam) with her dog and two horses. She set up a temporary corral for the horses but they got out sometime through the night. Her dog woke her about 3.30am and when she went outside to check the horses the fences were higgledy piggledy and the horses were gone. She spent quite a bit of time walking around with her torch and trying to see the tracks the horses might have left. Eventually a truck driver pulled up and told her he had seen two horses up the road about 30km away! She finally found them and got them loaded and back to the camp site. One of the horses had a large 'hole' in his front leg and a gash on his head. Hopefully he will be OK and we hope she got home safe and sound with them. Royce helped her pack away the fences before we left and she overtook us on the road some time later.
The wildflowers between Wooramel and Billabong Roadhouses were amazing - whites, yellows, light pinks, dark pinks, mauves, purples and reds!
Yesterday we passed through Canderdin and got a photo of the Ettamogah Pub! (Photo to come later).
We are currently camped at Karalee Rock (137km west of Coolgardie). This is a great place and is noted for 'next time' to spend a few days here.
There are so many things I wanted to see - Karijini National Park, Ningaloo Reef, Monkey Mia, Onslow, and lots more but it wasn't to be on this trip. I am already starting to plan our next trip. Before we had to decide to head home we had been thinking we would do the east coast of Australia next year, but now we think we might come back and finish off Western Australia (fingers crossed - all being well).
No photos again this time - only a weak signal and it takes too long to load them.
This will probably be my last post until we get home.
Trusting everyone is well.
PS I am looking forward to seeing Marshall again - he now has 3 teeth, is rolling around all over the place and not far off crawling!
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