After a lovely time at #53 (that is right? ......right?) we really did have to get going, but before we could leave, oh so casually, as you do at 7am in the morning, it seemed we had one more thing to pack!
After some detailed questioning from Uncle John, he sprung a surprise on the children (and Jamie and I) The children were presented with an X-Box!!, (more payback i s'pose you'd call it??) So now we are a household with, a PS2, a DS, a Wii and now a X-box + we also have 1 desktop PC and 5 (yes 5!) Laptops, though one is broken and one is technically a netbook. throw 2 TV's and 2 ipod's into the mix and, is that 'global warming' i hear outside?? thank heavens they aren't all used at once!!
Anyway thank you for having us again, hopefully i can stretch the love a bit more and 'duck' over again in March hmmm?? just for a night, watcha reckon Jamie i could do it for less then $200, could you hold the fort for the night??
Anyway this is supposed to be about our trip west from Adelaide, so as i said, it was a 7am start, and we were off on the homeward stretch.
I was just refreshing my memory in regards to the route we took, and Google Map tells me we could have taken a ferry!! why are we just finding that out now? i would have loved to have gone on a ferry!!
Anyway,
Oh Gosh It's raining! first rain we've had, about time you easterners shared some, from what i hear you've got enough!!
So i think we got to Ceduna the first night?, but on the way, we saw our 2nd wind farm, and i actually had a chance to get a photo this time considering i now had a driver.
I quite like them, but can understand why most people don't.
we also saw this land/rock formation
Oh my GOODNESS!!! Samuel almost exploded out of his body, he was SO excited that we were going to NT to see Uluru!! hmmmm, me thinks a few more lessons on Australian geography is in order for next year?
It was still mighty impressive though, it had me thinking for a minute, only because of the hill nearby was i certain it wasn't! :o We got out the map to double check though ;P
We then headed into Kimba for lunch, where the children tasted 'plastic' cheese for the first time, and were suitably unimpressed - and can't understand why Mummy has a secret love for it - neither can Mummy :)
Kimba's claim to fame, is the Big Galah, oh yes and the fact(?) that it is halfway across Australia.
Everybody has their Adventure bears still.
As you can see they are so impressed i made them point to, where we've been; where we were; and where we were going, We probably could have taken some time to read the history of Kimba, but the wind was blowing a gale, the flies were sticky and we'd already seen one of the big rigs that we'd passed come through, so we got going quick smart.
Next up was, on Mum and Steve's insistance a detour via Streaky Bay, Well aren't we glad we did! Was as beautiful as they said it would be, sweet little town, not sure i'd like to live there though, not after we 'met' some of the native wildlife.
This is the LIFESIZE replica of a shark caught near Streaky Bay, on a hand line! after like 5 hours or something? Must be nuclear run off in the water or something there, as the crabs and crayfish on the walls are massive also!!
We stayed there for a good hour or so, debating on whether to keep driving or camp early,
awww, nice to see some sibling love going on :)
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| mmmm, munching out on Aunty Pam's yummy bikkies |
After Streaky bay we headed to Ceduna, telling all the little shingle backs to stay off the road, as it seems i forgot to tell you that i, the mother of 5 and lover of husband and library, am a murderer :( It was deeply traumatic for us so i think i blocked it from my mind, but on our way to Adelaide we were quite jovial about the fact that we had only hit one thing on our whole journey (locusts DON'T count!) and that it was only a bird, way back in QLD, we aren't 'bird' people, so it wasn't too upsetting ( birds are a bit stoo-pid in the head in my opinion) but it seems we were to add to our tally. We were driving down the highway somewhere in outback NSW carefully avoiding all the lizards basking on the road, when.....
Oh the horror, it replays in slow-motion in my mind, i can just imagine the last few thoughts of this poor little monogamous creature :( trying to be safe with a passing road train i pulled into the shoulder/bike lane and far too late i saw this little guy and far too late for me to pull back in to the lane when...
da-doomp! no. more. lizard. :_ ( Can you just imagine his little head turning towards my big truck tyre, and what he would have thought? His poor life partner waiting. waiting. waiting for him to come home? The truck was very quiet for a long time after that :(
but you can't dwell in the past, thankfully no more lives have been ended since, and we had to get to Ceduna,
The girls spent alot of their time doing this after Adelaide, even Samuel did occasionally also. Sophie WAS sleeping until the camera started shooting :)
We made it to Ceduna, where the children FINALLY got their swim at a C'van Park, Claire and Sophie were the clever ones and pretty much got straight back out - It. was. FREEZING!! The locals were a bit weird, not sure if they were friendly or just drunk?? one of them shouted something like "you can't go swimming, you'll drown" not sure if it was a warning about the pool, or a bad joke or something completely different?? they also shouted something across the bar to me when i asked at reception about something, but i had one of those ''heh heh you're insane, i'll just nod and get outta there" type smiles and backed away ASAP! The 3 big children did end up with some weird funky rash by the time we got to Perth, but i think it was REALLY dry skin, as i lathered them all up with Sorbolene cream, and they were good as gold the next day.
The next morning as we left we were greeted with this
Oh yes and the sunrise was pretty special too HAHA :) - Diesel had been up to $1.45 in some places. so that was a welcome to the back pocket :)
I had better leave it at that as i think i have a sinus infection/inflamation - a really sore head/face, and as it's now Sunday i better get to sleep, though the sunrises here are pretty darn special too. :)
Nope, not today Missy. Get thee to bed i say!!
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