Monday 23rd

After morning tea at Laverton we headed out about 10ks of bitumen then gravel. For the first section about 20ks the graders were working so the road was really good. The next section about 200ks was good with the odd bad patch.

The country look good with the rain they have had there is new growth on some of the trees and scrub with a lot of grasses giving a green carpet in places.

There are mine sites right in the middle of nowhere. You would just come upon the mulck dumps and then the buildings.
We are still pushing into a cross head wind from right to left never let up all day, at least it cleared the dust of the road pretty quick.
Just after 3pm a tea break was called for and it was decided that with still quite a distance to go to our destination Tjukayirla it would be pretty late. We will camp in this gravel pit for the night.
While this debate was going on a white vehicle came barrowling up the road and pulled up along side us, turned out to be The Kalgoorlie Sheriff heading for Warbuton for court the next day. He gave us another choice of place to camp then went on his way. Off we went to check out the second site coming across and abandon car in the process so of course had to have a look at it.
Tim found a trolley jack which he kept that went into our rig, the camp site was to small so we stuck with the gravel pit.

It was a great days travel and we saw some very interesting and different country.

Tuesday 24th

On to Warbuton
Started with an overcast day the country is getting dryer does`nt look like they have had rain in this section, although there are still some wash outs on the side of the road - the country looks interesting with a combination of Morawa, Gutha, Yalgoo look to it.
The road although gravel is mostly good so far there has been a couple of rough patches, we have been on some worse bitumen roads.
There is no wild life to speak of have seen 2 lots of camels and a few birds- No Road Kill.
We had a surprise about 40ks out of Warbuton where the Heather Highway meets the Great Central Road we came across a beautiful two lane bitumen road which we enjoyed traveling on, it actually ran out before we got to the Warbuton Roadhouse back to gravel again.

Filled up with fuel @ $1.99 Litre  -  Big signs - stating NO PHOTOS ALLOWED!!!!
Everything was locked up tight like Fort Knox.
Very colourful locals and the cars they drive kept us entertained.
About 50ks out from there we found another gravel pit and camped up for the night.
When we unpacked to setup for the night found that quite a bit of dust had leaked in through the corners of the trailer so a big clean up was required then Tim got busy with his drill trying to seal things better, still overcast and we had some spots of rain during the night.
There are heaps of dead cars along the sides of the road

See you next time.