050 - Perth to Wilbinga Grove

So today marked our 7 week anniversary of being on the road, and I wish I could say we celebrated it with an array of fantastic adventures and sites seen. But really it was probably the most “normal” day we’ve had since leaving.

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Van was booked in for a service and required us to leave camp early, fight commuting traffic and drop it off at 8.30am.

Check.

I wonder if I should ask for a discount for exposure on social media streams... :)

The rest of the day was pretty much hanging around the local shopping centre whiling away the time. Key points of interest to jog memories down the path were:

• Me twinging my knee simply walking into the shops, despite the fact I’ve done a few Class 4 bush walks up until this point (and it’s taken a week to settle down…)
• Kids watching a movie (Boss Baby) at the cinema with B (I feel as I write this, it’s been spoken by Eric Bana’s character Con from the Castle…”ah… Jumanji”.)
• Me dropping our spare awning out to a mate a few kilometres down the road before returning to shops
• Me getting frustrated with my slowly dying phone and buying a new one from JB
• Buying a new coffee jug percolator thingymajig from Myer care of a gift card won in a raffle but dropping the gift card trying to find a second item after being told it was 30% off all things when to kitchenware items were bought and me telling Evie if we found something for $25 dollars or less then it was for free and then searching for the original sales person who was serving us thinking she had the gift card before Evie found it near a spatula on the floor and us then finalising the deal in what was quite the ordeal (anyone read that without taking a breath?)

And that was it.

We found a nearby park to “lunch in” with an Eco Education Centre nearby which looked good for the kids and were going to run a demonstration of something or other before I got a call saying the van was ready.

Somehow we even fluked a school excursion into a boring "day at the shops"

We picked up the van, with a relatively clean bill of health for the Big Green Lizard. A few things still outstanding but really, they aren’t deal breakers and won’t slow us down so I couldn’t be bothered making a big scene of it.

We then jumped into peak hour traffic and crawled along the highway/freeway for a few hours as we headed North from Perth.

We had planned on staying in the Yanchep National Park, but when we got there we found it was closed for maintenance. Hence why we couldn’t book it through the website I suppose! So we did what we did best and utilised the best feature of having our house towed behind us. We went a few kilometres up the road to the next rest stop, pulled over, made some pasta and went to bed!

OK... so this shot was taken the next morning before we departed but it gives you an idea of where we camped for the night. It was obviously a lot darker when we arrived.

And so ended quite the non-descript day.

But every now and then, you require them to ensure the world keeps turning. It can’t be chocolates and rainbows all the time.