We began this week by packing up and then heading to the car wash area and giving the van and the car a very good wash. By the time we had finished there was a bit of red dirt around, so this was either from the Savannah way (in July) or the Mine Permit Road from Tom Price to Karratha (September).

WE HAVE DONE 20,000KMS!

We certainly travelled the kilometers this week. We left Margaret River and began to drive through the old forests of South West WA. They are magnificent trees and very tall! We went to Pemberton and took a ride on an old tram that they operate through the forests. All along the way we had commentary about the history of the logging and the town as well as the forests. We also went to the Gloucester Tree, this tree is a fire lookout 67m high and after a few false starts the kids stayed with me while Dion went up. Just after he got down the first time, Britney decided she wanted to go up, so Dion went back up a second time! I wasn’t sure how she would go and after passing the half way mark she kept going. Considering there was no way I was going up I was proud that she made it the whole way. 

You know what they say about the best laid plans! We left Mandurah planning on seeing some of the inland south WA but we had a change of plans. We headed to Harvey where we stopped at Stirling Cottage which has been set up as a replica of May Gibbs cottage. This was a great spot to stop for morning tea. Although when we started the car as we went to leave, it began to run rough. We had a check around town and realized that there was not much hope of getting it looked into where we were so we had to head towards the closest largest town which was Bunbury.