Lakes, Farm, Wagin

Spent a night in Albany CP catching up then drove up to Lake Nunijup. Old sealed area behind the small hall, and a small lake. Decided to chat to some people I thought were there fishing. Turns out they were on a wild flower hunt.

 BUT - small world. One  was a Kiwi whose grandfather came from my home town! Wow. They were all heading to Lake Poorarecup and took me with them. Had a lovely picnic lunch there then back to the camp with an offer to spend a few days on a local farm. Accepted with pleasure. Spent the next day in the van once I had shifted it well away from trees as it was a very windy day. No-one else here.

Monday I headed off to the farm about 30 km away. Excellent gravel roads around here. Parked near the house and was able to run the power over so that was nice. Spent 3 days there being spoilt with farm beef, and grand tours of the property which is bisected with well maintained shire roads. The property (14,000 acres!) is looking picture perfect at the moment but am told as soon as it warms up it will be long dry 'standing hay' as we would say at home. Grain crops for hay and plenty of trees left for shelter. Some of the ground water is becoming very salty but steps being taken to fix that.

So many wildflowers around including the spider orchids.

Next stop was going to be Lake Queerarrup but it pays to put the GPS co-ordinates in correctly to find places.  Luckily I found a farm drive to turn around in and ended up in Wagin. Checked out the show grounds but decided to go to the CP instead. Only $20 p/n. Stayed 3 days as the weather packed up AGAIN and it is far too hard trying to camp in the cold and wet! No way I want to drive in this wind either.

 Have been playing with the Gamin and the caravancaravan website and can now plan at trip and load it in to the GPS. Good in theory but I am not very good at making a plan and sticking to it! Well - who needs a plan anyway! Still - something else I have learned!