We are at Tom Price, the highest town in Western Oz & 15ookm north east of Perth. We have spent two days here, exploring the spectacular gorges of the Karijini National Park & this morning an easy stroll to the summit of Mt. Nameless for distant views and a closer one of the enormous Iron Ore mine. A wonderful reunion with the 2 Grey Nomads - Doug & Meg, now half way around their oddessey in Oz and looking the part too! We hired a camper in Perth and, despite being minibus sized, is easy to drive and we rattle (literally!)along the straight outback highways, every so often it gets exciting and we turn left or right. We have visited en-route; the Pinnacles Desert, the Hamelin Pool stromatolites (the oldest living beings, here since the dawn of creation), an emu crossing the road, Shell Beach - consisting of millions of compounded shells; quarries use some of this to make bricks used in building some of the dwellings in the area. Kate swan in the freezing cold, very salty water. In the Kalbarri National Park we visited the Murchison River Gorge and sea cliffs. We were hoping to see some of the local rock wallabies but they were a bit shy! We have used the freedom of having a van to stay in a couple of the bush sites, where the only sound is the occasional rumble of a road train on the highway. We play spot the new road kill every morning. We are off to Exmouth today (and tomorrow; rather a long drive) where Paul hopes to fit in another dive before we go home, on the Ningaloo Reef.
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