the bad news, I was made redundant a couple of months ago and last month I managed to poke a hole in my radiator which has seen the patrol out of action. hopefully she’ll be ready soon :)
the good news, only 21 days until we’re back in broome! unfortunately we’re not driving, but flying, and spending 5 lovely nights at the bali hai. we’ve got a jeep wrangler booked and will be taking a day trip out to Barred Creek, my all-time favourite place to get away from everyone whilst up in Broome. the photo at the top of the blog was taken at Barred Creek where we spent 3 lovely days without seeing / hearing any other people and were able to watch pods of whales about 1km off shore jumping out of the water.
as I said in one of my previous entries, I keep neglecting the blog, which I hate doing. now with winter behind us, and with the patrol on the mend, hopefully we’ll be about to get out there and explore again soon and keep the updates coming!
i’m also in the process of adding a series of “delayed” entries detailing our honeymoon trip to the kimberley in 2007. lots of photos and lots of stories, so keep an eye out.
cheers,
jason.
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So we’ve started talking a bit more about where to go next and we think we’ve decided on taking a couple of weeks off in July 2010 (to coincide with our 3 year anniversary) and do Karijini for 3-5 days, whislt leaving Lucy, our adorable fur-baby at Tom Price and then picking her up and spending the remaining few days at Cleaverville Beach.
Cleaverville is north of Karratha and from what I’ve been able to find online is quite a nice place!
I’ll update the blog with more info a bit later…
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So I’ve had plenty of time to start thinking about the next trip to plan, but I’m torn between doing what we want to do and what we can do.
Camping/travelling/exploring with a dog is quite difficult we’ve found. Avril and I have talked about Karijini for quite a while now and we’re both keen as mustard to do it but you can’t take dogs into National Parks (unless you’re blind, but then why are you going to a NP?! I call it reverse discrimination!).
Knowing that there are caravan parks in the area you are visiting where you can stay with a dog is quite good, just hope there is a vet/kennel you can leave your fur baby while you go where they can’t.
But I digress, no matter how much it pains me to holiday without Lucy, I think Karijini may be next on the agenda. With Newman only ~1200km away from home, it can easily be reached without stretching ourselves.
When to go is the next question. The next leave we’ve got planned is July, to coincide with our 2 year anniversary, but I think the last time I looked Karijini in July can get quite cold. “Toughen up princess” I hear you all say.
Exmouth is lovely and is easily reached within a day. Could I do it again so soon? You betchya.
Decisions, decisions, decisions.
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Well, only 10 hours to go before I leave for Exmouth. I’m leaving at 3 in the morning and hope to get to Exmouth by no later than 7 in the evening.
Here’s another photo of RUFN IT while doing my final check over it.
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Well, I just spoke with the old man who arrived in Exmouth yesterday. Apparently all of the free camping spots in the national park are full, have been for the past 4 weeks and are expected to be for the next 6 to 8 weeks!
Thankfully dad was leaving his van in a caravan park while we were rufn it, so we can use that as a basecamp to explore the area and hopefully snag a camp site when/if one becomes available!
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This is what dad will be sleeping in for most of his trip. It’s a Coromal Lifestyle 615 with all the mod cons (not really rufn it, I know!).
This will be behind his 2.8ltr GQ Patrol (a little under-powered in my opinion, so hopefully there will be an upgrade in the not too distant future :)).
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