My life, my story... Day 1 to 3

I thought it would be wise to write a little synopsis each day or every few days and post them in a bunch (i.e decent few days to weekly, basically when I feel like itt)

Day one...
We are on our way... We decide to high tail it up to exmouth and cover the . 1,270 km from Perth to exmouth in time to meet one of Tom's good friends from the UK and his girlfriend a day before Valintinr day. The rough plan was to pick Zoe up from joondalup where she had been couch surfing for the week. Pick up fishing supplies and an esky from my best mates place on the way up to guilderton, Moore river; the first nights stop of many.

We got to guilderton around 7pm later than anticipated but my best mates put on a very nice afternoon tea, which turned out to be a very civilised way to start the trip! And Ant (10month old) despite coming down with the flu prove wicked entertainment and his 5 year old brother decided an afternoon of modified (and by modified I mean 5 year old's rules) cricket was in order.
We headed off a little later than anticipated but as I have said this trip will always be flexible and if we are enjoying the current moment, we are not going to leave for the "what if's". They will come later when we decided to set off again!

Day two...
We decided that we needed more room because all the gear was slowly encroaching on Zoe in the back seat. So we set off on gumtree to find a trailer or roof rack. In the end we were lucky enough to find a trailer in Canarvon for $100 so if it works out we should have that connected up to  Tom's Rav4 in a few days. We also modified out trip from stopping after 4.5 hrs near kalbarri to heading all the way to sharks bay 6.5 hours so that we could spend time taking a look at the trailer, fixing and getting it registered.

We have decided that on the way back we would not drive any more than 2 hours a day... So that we can just enjoy every aspect of what the beautiful west coast has to offer!

We had lunch and stocked up on supplies in Geraldton, a very short stop and then on out way again.
We attempted to stay at the Hamelin stay based on recommendations by a friend but it was closed for the summer. We stayed in the Hamelin road house ($11pppn). This was essentially a road house (petrol station on the side of the hwy, red dirt feild until we found grass near the camp kitchen and bathrooms). The facilities were clean but like a glass house in the bathrooms. We set up tent and Zoe and I went for a run (at sunset absolutely breath taking).

On a side note, on the return from our run I found out that the toiletries Tom and I had decided to share, I had managed to bring two 1L conditioners... Oops! At least he had very silky hair :p
We then filled up on snacks before heading to bed for an early start, with the intentions of being in exmouth the following night.

Day 3...
Tom had driven the full 6.5 hours and started out driving again this morning where we intended to pick up the trailer in Canarvon. Despite the trailer being a brilliant idea it was unregristed and required a little work in regards to tyres, plug and cleaning. This took the majority of the day requiring us to alter our plans but allowed us to check out what canarvon has to offer :) we checked out the bun-bay banana and mango plantation (449 North river rd, canarvon) for a well needed ice cream break. We spent lunch in the park.

We went fishing for the afternoon (fish: 1 Us: none). We met an interesting fella at the 1 mile jetty fishing at the same time as us, initially he seemed grumpy at us because supposedly we had committed the cardinal sin of fishing by setting up between his lines. We were very new at all of the fishing stuff and the only way to learn is by trial and error. In the end I won him over and he offered to help me set up a pall-entwine line with a sinker and 2 hooks to bounce off the bottom of the ocean. He also gave us the head from his king white for crabbing and informed us of the best camping grounds in canarvon and exmouth. All in all can't complain.

Zoe fishing :)

 

Not our fish :( but we stole it's head to crab!

We set up camp at the coastal tourism park $15 pppn but definately the best facilities thus far. They
only offered powered sites though.
We split tasks this evening, cracked open a few ciders and had an amazing chicken curry... Did I mention that Tom is an AMAZING cook.

Well off to bed now, we'll finish sorting the trailer out in the morning. Which we named the trailer George Aslam ( George the lion) ? It's red. Maslam was the road we collected it from and the road
came off of George street.
But really the Gorge street part was a complete coincidence, I just really wanted to call him George!

George Aslam in all his glory: fully register, inspected, repaired and cleaned.

Au revoir, til next time...
Kim.