Anyway, we are in Karratha at the moment, a very expensive place, unless you work here and then the dollars you can earn are pretty massive. We have been here for a little over a week. Roh worked in Woolys selling the personal valets from wed-sat, he pretty much sold out so he had sunday off. We had an electrical job lined up for 4 weeks, but unfortunately without a W.A electrical license you can't work. Roh's license is in the system, but will take up to 3 weeks to be processed! They were quick to take the money from our account, not so quick with the number. Very cheeky I think. Roh is kicking himself that he didn't apply for the license sooner.
We are waiting til 5pm tonight for a phonecall. If the job offer is good enough we will stay for 3 more weeks, if not we will be on the road again, heading for Perth. Plans keep changing everyday. We are thinking of coming back after cyclone season, but we'll see.
Ok, a quick recap of the last 7 months:
March - October
- packed up the house and set up the caravan
- Said Goodbye and left the Mornington Peninsula on Tuesday 15th March 2011
- 1 week at the Ballerine Tourist Park, (a nice way to wind down)
- Onto Warrnambool, Nelson and Victor Harbor
- 10 days on Kangeroo Island (expensive to get there, but one of my favourite spots)
- Normanville, McClaren Vale and then 1 week in Adelaide (Met the Westwoods)
- Spent Easter at Port Augusta (advised not to, but we had an ok time, stayed at Big 4)
- 2nights at Rawnsley Park station (just out of Flinders Rangers, another favourite spot)
- Took the Oodnadatta Track from Leigh Creek, to Marree, past Lake Eyre South (got our feet wet!)
- Stayed at Coward Springs (Met the lovely Macmaster family from vic)
- A few days in Coober Pedy (very interesting town) onto Erldunda and then 5 days in Ayers Rock
- Kings Canyon for mothers day, saw our 1st dingo!
- Took the Ernest-giles Track, 100kms of dirty/sandy road. (Roh wasn't really a fan of this road)
- Got to Alice and chilled for 3 nights
- Headed back to Vic for the birth of my nephew 15th May, stayed for a month and then hit the road.
- roh started in-store demos for Woolworths, Portland for a week of training (Caz and Rory visited)
- 1week of work in Victor Harbor, then a wet cold week at West Beach Adelaide
- Made the decision to get to warmer weather, so up the middle we go again!
- 1 week in Port Pirie (interesting town, I think the lead had got to a few people!)
- Pimba, Coober Pedy, Kalgura (Indi turned 2)
- Alice Springs, went bush for 4 nights to save some money. Trephins Gorge, beautiful spot.
- Big 4 at Alice Springs for a week while Roh Worked (His best week yet!)
- Heading for Darwin, stayed at Taylor Creek rest area, Devils Marbles (another favourite spot), New Castle Waters rest area, Mataranka - Elsey National Park (lots of wild Donkeys at night), Edith Falls
- Free Spirit Caravan park 1 week, Coolalinga Caravan Park 1 week (Caught up with the Westwoods)
- Stayed with Em and Nick at Adelaide River on a small station for 4 days (Good Fun)
- Back to Free Spirit, Roh's parents came to visit.
- Moved to lee Point Caravan Park for 2 weeks, Roh worked
- Back to Free Spirit with Em and Nick for 6 nights, Out to Litchfield with em and Nick for 4 nights (bumped into Glenn, Niki and the boys) Said goodbye to the Orchards and headed to Kakadu.
- Spent 3 nights in Jabiru (did a jumping crocodile tour), 2 nights in Katherine ( had to get back of van fixed, turned out to be Roh's cousin fixing it, such a small world)
- El Questro for Roh's Birthday, nice spot, very hot and without power, so no air con!
- 1 night in Kununarra for a swim, some air con and clean clothes.
- Mary River road side stop, bumped into Glenn and Niki again, kids played and we had dinner together. Another road side and then onto Broome for 4 nights. Swimming, Fishing, Driving on the beach and pizzas on Cable Beach.
- 2 nights at Barnhill Station, 10kms of dirt road but a lovely spot, 80 mile Beach Caravan park for 2 nights. More driving on the beach and the kids enjoyed shell collecting. Weird dead sea creature found?????
- Port Hedland for 1 week, Roh back to work. Kids and I spent lots of time with the Worthingtons. Port Hedland is an ugly place from the outside, but we saw turtles nesting, Stairway to the moon, turtles swimming, did a free kite making weekend and played at lots of parks, as well as seeing some very, very big boats coming into the Harbor.
- And that brings us to Karratha.........
