Trip Planning........ and other things

Pretty Pool in Port Hedland, a fitting name for a pretty
place

We did our first advent into hand washing today. You may think it is weird as we are in the middle of a town, but Port Hedland doesn't have a single laundromat and we are not staying in a caravan park, thus no washing machine. We all sat down, with three buckets, and the girls enjoyed agitating the water where the clothes were. They were then passed to the next person (me) and I rinsed it out and put it in a tub to be hung up. Pretty good system. If you want to learn how we normally do our washing, click here: Washing, Washing on the line, Mrs Wishy-Washy

Playing on the play equipment after a good dinner
at pretty pool.

Joel tried to find an old tin can, as Bush Tucker man had a really good way of washing, but tin cans were also very scarce. We also spent the whole day ringing around to find the cheapest place to get wheel bearings greased, and new tyres ordered in. The cheapest is about $170/h at about 4 hrs, just to get wheel bearings done!!

Then we had dinner at Pretty Pool. The name fits the place!! It is like Urunga, back home.

One another note, we have been planning our trip down the coast. It reminds us of when we started to travel, we made a big plan about where we would like to go. Our list of places that we wanted to see included:

1. Uluru, and the Red Centre

2.South West WA

3. Jindabyne and the high country (in summer)

We highlighted our intended route in highlighter in our Camps Australia Wide book. We did follow the plan to a little extent, but then we went off on our own, and the plan flew out the window. To give a quick example, the planned trip was: down to about Dubbo, through Coonabarabran and Tamworth, then Forbes, Grenfell and Young. We then were going to go to Jindabyne and then the plan stopped. We actually went to Dubbo, then to Condobolin and to Mildura through Hay and Robinvale. We headed down to Ouyen and up to Renmark. We then went to Adelaide, and went back to the snow via the Great Ocean Road. To see a full map of our travels see here: Where we have been

So, the best laid plans always go astray. We used to laugh at our first plan (and still do), considering we even wrote down all the place we were going to stop. A big waste of time!! We have a plan at the moment, …............but we will see if we follow it.