Day 35
9/9/2010
Well our little family flew out of Perth at 1pm today to sunny Christmas Island; we pray that Thomas has travelled well on the 4 1/2 hr flight.
As we traveled the Nularbor today it was interesting to see the variation of gum trees from the tall multi trunked Salmon Gums to spindly sticks with a leaves only on the top canopy from tall trees to trees only 2 to 3 metres fully grown. The under storey far too numerous even try to name even if I could, although I do know saltbush, as we are moving east this is progressively getting more prominent.
Stopping off at Baladonia refueling and moving our clocks forward 30 minutes, slowly getting back to SA time, we had a look through their museum, artifacts and relics from the Afghan Cameleers, the RedX round Australia rally and of course “SKYLAB” when it crashed to earth near Baladonia, I was surprised to see that the housing skin was aluminum, I would have thought this would have melted during re-entry.
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| Domblegabby Rest Area |
Sheryle started to count the number of caravans against trucks, at one stage, all travelling in the opposite direction to us the count was 14 caravans to 1 truck, go the Nomads.
Tonight we are at Domblegabby Rest Area (where do they get these names from) (32’19’539s 125’04’423e). We arrived early waaaaay down the back, had lunch and set up camp then off to do an emu bob, to the uninitiated that is picking up papers and other rubbish that has been left by other travelers and road maintenance crews from years past, today apart from our bag of rubbish, papers, plastic and cans an old tyre, 4x20 litre plastic drums and an old rusted metal box were added to the pile by the bin, I only hope they take them away too.
Weather report: with the wind at our back it has helped the mileage today, mainly sunny but overcast at times with high clouds, hard to predict the temperature due to the wind keeping things cool. We have been told by our neighbors that we are heading into cold weather, not looking forward to that.
Catch you tomorrow
John & Sheryle
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