….and whoosh, they were gone….
We left Perth on Friday 22nd December 2017 for a gorgeous Christmas with family at the Shack. Heading east just before New Year:
We have camped at ruins, on beaches, in the bush and in the desert. We have slept on cliff tops at the edge of the country and we have seen skies we could never imagine…
We have seen sunrises, sunsets and super moons from places we never dreamed existed…. explored caves and spent long mornings soaking in nature’s stunning playgrounds.
We have been bitten by flies, mozzies, midgies and ants, we have had spiders in our bed and nearly tripped over an eastern brown snake.
We have seen kangaroos, emus, bustards, lizards, swam with stingrays and spotted large sharks patrolling the Great Australian Bight.
We have been bitterly cold and ridiculously hot.
We have made weapons (lots of weapons), learnt how to do sudokus, learnt to read and to ride without training wheels.
We have cried tears of happiness and joy, as well as pain and anger (mostly Lani).
We have nightly first aid sessions (operations) to fix the day’s injuries and we keep running out of bandaids. Lani has been told we are going to start charging her for bandaids. She thinks we’re kidding…
We have created and eaten some incredibly delicious gourmet meals, and we have had vegemite sandwiches for breakfast and 2 minute noodles for dinner (although not on the same day, Jules). One of us may have also eaten so many oysters that it might have caused a little accident the following day….
We have broken stuff (quite a lot of stuff actually), seriously dented our car to the point that we needed to use a hammer and a screwdriver to open the passenger door, broken more stuff trying to fix stuff and have even managed to fix some stuff, much to our delight.
We have listened to Danika’s party mix from the early 2000’s… for 3 straight days…. along with Snugglepot and Cuddlepie audiobook.
We don’t know where we are going – even with three GPS’ and a map – or what we are doing when we get there. We have no plan beyond what to eat next…
It’s so much more than we even hoped it would be and we are only just getting started.
We have never laughed or loved so much.
Here are a few pics of the journey so far.
Perth to Streaky Bay
