By the time we left the park in the morning, almost everyone else was either preparing to go, going, or gone, leaving the park very empty, and the way we presume it usually is when Woolorama is not on. While eating breakfast, a fellow camper came across and we were discussing the costs of caravanning [...]
Category Archives: 1999 Western Australia
Lemonade bath
Final day in Western Australia. We drove into the nearby town of Hyden to get lunch and allow Diana to qualify as SPOTD. Yes, it had taken the entire holiday for Di to be nominated for the award, but she made a fantastic entry. Getting two bottles of soft drink out of the fridge to [...]
Walpole – Albany – Wagin
During the night, it did rain, and Diana lay awake for a couple of hours waiting for the giant deluge she imagined would dump upon her because she was in a tent. However, because we’d known the rain was coming, Trav had checked and double-checked the tent for weather-sealing (as well as he could in [...]
Augusta – Walpole
For the first time in the past eight mornings, we woke to find dull grey, leaden skies, instead of the usual sunny brilliance we had become accustomed to. It was not raining, but trying very hard to get started, with some small drops hitting us as a reminder to pack the tent up quickly. While [...]
Signs you’ve spent too long in the woods
Our SPOTD award went to the CALM ranger on-duty at the Gloucester Tree that day, working to collect the $5 entry fees for vehicles entering the park. When we showed him the Holiday Pass we’d bought instead of having to pay each time we went to a park, he replied that it was no good [...]