front of the road house, was hard trying to get the galah to fly thru on cue! 

young birds just hatched in the nest in the fence of the veggie garden, mum and dad give me a hard time everytime I go in to turn on the sprinklers, one of the chix was trying to fly the other day, only managed to get off the ground to a branch about head high as i came in, didnt the parents go off at me!!! if only they knew what was to come........

 every storm now, I go round next morning to see where the trees have fallen, this one is behind the veggie garden, the branch laying on the shade clothe is almost directly above the birds nest, when i went in with the chain saw, it was like a bloody three ring circus, me, mum and dad, the lead for the modem in the house is at the back and below the main branch of the tree, its a blue lead running off the roof of the veggie garden if you use your imagination you may find it, so the tree finished up as a pile of firewood,

bloke knocked on our front door at midnight, he had driven in from 50k out on three tyres and this! he got told rather unpolitely, that, no i really wasnt going to help, so piss off and when we open at 8am come and try again. he eventually left here about 11am after warburton community sent a p/o for new rim/tyre. oh, and this one is down at the tip if anyone wants it.

 this "creek" is the fire break at the back of the house, after the really big storm.......

that also turned the tip into a lake............

and I also got to close the road, only problem was, the laverton shire sent the email to close it at 3.30 we close at 3pm on weekends, so didnt get email till we turned on the system next morning,  never can work out that mob from the shire?

mitsubishi are sending engineers out to take the specs of this, will be include in their next update of the pajero range.

and so, as the sun sinks slowly in the west..... thats the fire fighting trailer just over the fence.

I was sat out the back, in the Tjuka Bar, watching the idiot box, when this Perenti turned up. I came in to get the camera and when I got back out there he was "hiding" behind the beer fridge. the print I downloaded from was right way up, but, the blog seemed to like it on its side and I couldnt turn it round again, use your imagination!!!

Took about 20mins but he finally came back out, every time I picked up the camera he would look to see what I was doing, I reckon he was only about 1m long, think they get a bit bigger. 

He climbed around the wall for a while and eventually left, I thought,

When Lyn came out, I told her about him as she went to get something out of the van, which was parked in the carport, the little buggar had gone around the corner and was hanging on the wall in the carport at head height and scared hell out of her when she saw him!

AND THEN WE HAD THE STORM!

wind came up and blew like hell, there was a giant red dust cloud ahead of the rain, main storm only lasted about 10-15mins, as they do! we got rain on/off all night and next morning when i read the rain gauge for BOM we had 7.4mm in the 24hrs from 0900 27th, pretty much by 1000 28th apart for a couple of puddles, ground had dried out and looked like we hadnt had rain in days all that remained was the clean up!

This branch came off the tree in the background, at the height of the storm we were at the back door of the roadhouse watching the tree threshing about in the wind, surprised only this little brach came off.

In the background, between the two black and white striped posts, you can almost see the rain gauge on the ground, gets read daily(when we get rain) at 0900 and entered on BOM website.

thats the backpacker units in background and roadhouse on right, oh, and, if you look closely theres a fallen branch in foreground.

this is other side of roadhouse, with the brick........... dunnies in background next to telstra phn box.
probly good bit of positionment for anyone who tries to talk to telstra!

Did one run to tip with ute full of trees, picked up trailer on way back for second trip,

this bastard I had to wrap the chain around and drag it free with the ute! snapped one strand of barbed wire, which, when I stood the fence back up again,  two ends came up short! must be a new alignment to what Al had.

thats the house in the background, the TJUKA BAR is in behind the outside bistro curtain thingos, and beer garden hidden behind the little tree on the left.

our campsite at karalee dam,

campground at karalee dam, taken from on the dam wall.

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karalee rock, the wall around the base catches rain water and feeds it down the viaduct to the dam this was built to provide water for the railway to kalgoorlie, all around the area the 'rocks' like this have little walls around the base to catch rain water.

karalee dam from the end of the viaduct.

and, whats a trip to kalgoorlie without a visit to hay street, the 3pm tour was chockers so we came back for a special tour at 4.30, at $18 a person its probly worth it, if for no other reason than to say you have been in the only original brothel left in hay st

 Kal, from the top of the water tank hill, they have a flasher name but cant remember it, we did a bit of a drive around town waiting for the brothel tour.

our campsite at lake douglas, HUGE free camp area with drop dunnies and its only 15K to Kal.

emus on the side of the lake

 on the walk around lake douglas

the homestead at goongarrie station, another old pastoral lease that has gone back to NP, there are three buildings here, a shearers cottage and the sandalwood camp, all have flush dunnies and solid fuel water heater for hot shower! water comes from rain water tanks so probly not a good idea to lob at the end of a drought! controlled by DECWA in Kalgoorlie and costs $10 per person a night($6 for us seniors)  all buildings are open and there is NO grafitti/vandalism in any of them! the wood carving by the gate is one block of wood.

inside one the old barn/workshop

 inside one of the cupboards in the workshop is a litte pink shoe box that has the ashes of Bill........

 and in another cupboard, some signs of life, were two but the other was too quick.

no eggs for breaky from here....

maybe this bastard got the eggs!!!

set up behind the homestead, note the iconic hills hoist, there is two flush dunnies just out of picture to the right of the hills.

the kitchen inside the homestead, there is a visitors book in the lounge room thru the yellow door on the right, funny to read the kids comments, one was from couple of kids who went looking for gold "we didnt find any, but it was fun digging holes in the earth" can not got over the fact these buildings are not locked, there is no caretaker on sight and you can see all the graffitti/vandalism.

loading dock on the property, mechanics shed room is behind this.

and sunset at tjukayirla, i think i can feel a red coming on!!!

rock art we found on our day trip around wyndham, surprisingly, there are no barriers and no graffitti, maybe the drive in from the main road deters the vandals? these have been dated back to, oh, i think it was sometime last week?

the giant BOAB tree in wyndham CP, it is largest tree, in captivity, in aussie.

granted Lyn is a little vertically challenged, but, still gives you idea how big the thing is.

just out of wyndham. we were going to go for a swim, but...............

...................its almost 400 steps to the bottom, and we were short on time!

this is back in Kunnunurra, whole heap of people have planted trees here, they seemed to be replanting all the new growth away from Rolf Harris' tree????

bungle bungle campsite, although they called it a caravan park!

Bungle Butcher delivers fresh to the campsite, daily!

 and, after what is verrry close to being the worst 50Ks we have found, the bungle bungle NP, the grey line in the middle is actually a termite mound  nest(?)

cathedral gorge, amazing place, almost forgotten the 50k by now!

the end of echidna chasm, the gap at the top is so narrow the endomondo lost sattelites and robbed us of  about 2k that we walked.

entrance to the chasm, you can see the gap narrowing at the top of the chasm, actually gets to where there is no direct sunlight in spots.

 flying boat wrecks in broomne harbour, from jap air raids during WWII at low very low tides you can walk out across the MUDFLATS to the wrecks, I took photos from town beach.

hovercraft out on the mudflats off town beach, all waiting for the moon to rise. and, after spending all of 5 mins to check out the markets and sitting waiting, waiting..............

the moon appears, and we have the staircase to the moon, believe me, it was about as impressive sitting there, we  adjourned to the ROEY for a counter tea and a couple of settlers to steady the pulse rate down again.

rail bridge over Degrey river, about 80k north of pt hedland.

campsite at Degreys, great spot, so good every bastard wanted to camp on top of us!!

kookaburra nest in tree alongside our camp site

kookas in another tree, pretending they werent going to the nest.

if anybody had tried to get within a mile of this place with a camera, back when the yanks were here, they would have been shot, as for telling anyone what the place was, you would still be breaking rocks somewhere, my how times change, if you go up to the lighthouse lookout it tells you the entire history of harry e and gives you detailed layout of the aerial farm,  no terrorist would attack the farm because every 20m or so is little sign hanging on the fence 'commonwealth property KEEP OUT', that will stop the bastards! if you couldnt read the white sign and didnt work it out from the pic above, it is a submarine comms base. if local rumour is right, the yanks are coming back, see how long before all the signs come down!

 lunch spot in cape range NP and below the view from there..........

first night out of exmouth, hiding behind a huge dirt hill in an old rta stockpile site, about 20k north of carnarvon, no road noise that night!

campsite, murchison river, just north of geraldton, took a while but talked ourselves into staying longer than the one night we had planned

we had couple of these in the tree next to us, wish i could have drawn as many birds when i was a teenager!

 campsite at lake indoon, we stayed extra nights here too, had flush dunnies and hot showers, and of course we woke up each morning to the lousy bloody view.....

 black swans on the lake

 our campsite, from about 2.5k across the lake..........

and best of all, the ranger never came to pickup the rent, i thought they were bit much anyway!

 pergandes sheep yards, just out of bencubbin,  the ufo is just so you realise its in WA!

this bloke settled here in 1910, the rock walls of his sheepyards he got from quite a distance away, the way he got each slab was to heat the rock face with fire, then, cool it quickly with water, easy really, all he had to do than was to drag it all back and stand it up in the ground, bloody hardy bastards back then!!!

you can see the lake in the background behind the sign, if you look reallll hard!

 probably environmentally wrong, but, parked on billiburning rock near Beacon. campsite is around the rock to the right, dunny but no water.

rainbow wave, elachbutting rock, the campsite is just to the left, has a dunny but no water!

on top of elachbutting rock, there is an approved 4wd track access up to here

 looking down on montys pass, its where the rock slide area is to left of black hole.

montys pass

you can see daylight at the start, only goes about 60m and comes out........

thru the little black hole in middle of pic, walk back around thru the scrub is easier going

lizards, there were about 6, by the time i found them in the view finder and zoomed in rest had scarpered,

montys wave, no idea who monty was, guess he was first in and put his name on everything?

Gabbin school bus, its last week of hols so guess it will get wash and polish on monday? guess the driver stays to stop the vandals, maybe he dozed off couple of times....

the school operated from 1922 - 2000, imagine any kids out here would go to Bencubbin.

and what can i say, another sunset, another red