Wake up - 7am.... packing - not done, pile of clothes all over my room.
One cup of tea for caffeine/wakefulness
Prompt departure at 9.24am - after a detour to pick up dog food for honey (we always seem to run out at inconvenient times)
Heading for the Great Eastern Highway. Must go through subi - anticipating a delicious croissant/pastry from Jeane Claude bakery - but unfortunately due to cost cutting/difficulty finding staff they are not open on saturdays anymore. Maybe we can try some other cute Subiaco cafe/patisserie for post-breakfast snacks. Try Boucla cafe? Sure why not. Wow... quite intense for the senses - food everywhere, smells, very busy, interesting decor. My raspberry teacake was great. I would have loved to try a slice from each of the giant cakes sitting on the counter - definitely home made and almost certainly delicious. Neil had a little quiche-type thing. His report was that it was great - to paraphrase "those things can be disgusting - but this one is amazing - really shows how great the place is" or something like that is what he said. One hot chocolate (neil) one tea (me) - minus the lid because take away tea with a lid makes the lid melt and the tea taste like plastic. 10 minutes of sipping hot tea later...
Now we could hit the road.
Headed to Great Eastern Highway. Slight detour - is the Great Eastern Highway the same as the Great Eastern Highway Bypass? Do we still end up in Kalgoorlie?? oh dear... it's going to be a long trip
Stop one - fruit shop somewhere between Bakers Hill and Clackline - the fruit and veg must be beautiful and cheap out here - no such luck. Expensive and average. No fruit. Wee stop #1. Toilet quality - very poor. Fuel stop #1
Stop two? - no we didn't stop.. Neil suggested how lovely it would be to take photos of beautiful flowering yellow fields with his big camera. I agreed and kept driving. Instead he took photos with my phone through the window. (I thought how nice it would be if he had brought his camera.) Hours later he pulled his camera out of his bag... woops. I guess we will have to take photos of pretty flowers next time
Stop two - rest stop between Cunderdin and Kellerberrin - toilet quality - great
Stop three - Merredin - we must visit the bakery and eat a choc muffin (and lunch)! yum
Stop four - Karalee Rocks - near yellowdine - one of the stops on the golden pipeline heritage trail. ~4km off the road. No idea what to expect. Pleasantly surprised. Huge granite rock formation with a wall around it. The idea is that when it rains the water collects from the whole area. It then runs down the slip-way to a big dam. Beautiful. It was also great to hop out and stretch our legs. We met a lady. She had no idea where she had been but recommended a place called ?etchenbotting? something similar.
Stop five - Truck stop short of Coolgardie. Met the police here. Nice
Stop six - finally back to Kalgoorlie. It felt like coming home
One night and one day with Neil
Then put him on a plane back to Perth
It was lovely to have him for the drive (i'm sure he saved my life being there to keep me awake)
It was lovely to have him for the day!
House-sitting for Kylie again. She has just installed a new projector home movie system - with Wii attached - awesome. Played new wii-sports on a HUGE screen :)
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