Mac McCallum is on a round-Australia trip. While his presence at the
monthly meetings will be missed for the next six months or so, we can
still enjoy the pleasure of his company as he and Sue send these
monthly accounts of their adventure. Mac has sent this to me, in the
hope that it would not be too far OT to warrant a post to the list.
I think Mac has enough friends in WAMUG who might be sufficiently
interested in his exploits to make this worthwhile, so here is his
first post. If you really don't want to read it, just delete it...
Begin forwarded message:
Dear All,
Well we finally left Perth on 3rd March, two days later than planned.
Apart from the fact that we would never have been ready, we stayed to
go to our dear friend Roberta's funeral on the Wednesday. We were so
glad that we could be there to say our final goodbye.
We left Perth and travelled to Hyden where we found a very nice
Yorkshireman who helped Mac fix a problem with the fridge. They spent
a very happy hour together ending with Keith showing us the traction
engine that he had built. He had arrived out on the ship from the UK
two months after us. We then then went on the dirt road through to
Norseman About 100kms down the track we heard a rather strange noise
and Mac discovered that one of the bolts had come out of our brand new
shock absorbers(put in last week !) Fortunately Mac had a bolt that
would fit and he fixed it temporarily and on we went again. We spent
the night at McDermid's Rock bush site. A very interesting spot and we
did the trail walk around the rock. Next day we travelled on to
Norseman crossing lakes Johson & Cowen. Lake Cowen is just outside
Norseman but quite a sight, and the vegetation is fascinating.
Norseman is quite small but we did find a mechanic who replaced the
bolt with the correct one and also found another bolt that was only
finger tight- we were not impressed!! We carried on and finally got
onto the highway, the Nullabor being as flat and barren as we expected
but with its' own beauty. We took five days to get to Ceduna, stopping
to see anything of interest. We stayed at bush camp sites apart from
Coccklebiddy where we had a caravan site and a shower. We decided to
go and look at the limestone cave and were told by some youngsters who
were leaving, as we arrived, that it was very steep. They were not
wrong! The start of the descent was a very long vertical ladder. As
we then started to scramble down very steep rocks we both began to
think that we were crazy. Fortunately a Norwegian couple arrived and
so we continued, letting youth find the way! Even with a torch it was
difficult but we finally made the underground lake but passed on the
swimming bit. We made it back to the top but we certainly felt our
muscles for the next couple of days!
We drove on, saw the spectacular Bunda Cliffs and stopped at the head
of the Bight and walked out on the whale watching platform. No whales
at this time of year, but we did see a pod of porpoises. We then
concentrated on eating up all of our fruit and veges before entering
the checkpoiont at Ceduna. We are at the Foreshore caravan park and
have decided to have a few days without moving. We have been to the
fish processing factory which was very interesting and bought fresh
King George Whiting-delicious-went back to get some more today. it was
40C yesterday, so we went to Laura Cove for a swim. A lovely spot, but
oh it was hot. We are just about to go and seen them release the
weather balloon not far from here. Tomorrow we move on to Streaky Bay
for a few days and then onto Port Lincoln and then we don't know where!
WIll be in touch. Love to all. Sue & Mac
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