Week 501 - Bindoon, Western Australia

It has been a short uneventful week.

After having spent a couple of days rained in at Miling, our campsite was in the middle of a roadwork gang's base, totally deserted by workers, but surrounded by water trucks, bob cats, B Doubles, bulldozers, you name it.  Very peaceful, yet surreal.

The last of the wildflowers

Ring-necked parrot - 
Very common in these parts.

The Western Australian Government are building roads left, right and centre and bypassing a lot of small towns, including our next stop, New Norcia.  Only the tourists come through town now.  Our camp spot was a paddock, the size of a couple of football fields, yet only a couple of us there.  However, the weather is still not ideal.  Very windy one day, hot and humid the next, followed by 8 degree mornings.

St Gertrudes, New Norcia 

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The architecture in the village of the monks, is fascinating.  Also the monks brew a mean drop of Abbot Ale, weighing in at 7.3% volume.  However, they would not sell me a pint and served me a piddly 250 ml in a poofters wine glass, then charged me like a wounded bull at $7.50 a nip.  Which equates to $15 a pint.

Bindoon - A $20 a night camp spot around the 
town oval. We have been here two days, using the 
air-conditioner one day and the heater the next.

We are beginning to suffer from the price of fuel, even though we do low mileage per week.  When we left Brisbane in 2009, diesel was $1.01/litre - today's price $1.67/litre and still heading north, that's $502 per fill up.   But if I had to buy 300 litres of Abbott Ale, it would be $4500.     OUCH!!!!  

So we continue heading south to Bindoon and Wanneroo.  We are only a few days away from Perth city at approximately 80 kms.

Comments

Thrush

2018-10-19

Try adding soft drink to the petrol - cheaper.

One Stick

2018-10-19

Or try drinking soft drink Ha Ha

Yvonne

2018-10-19

Loved New Norcia. You are paying around 14c per litre more than us but we

are heading to 1.70 a litre soon apparently. Son is paying 2.50 in NZ. 

In 2011 we were paying 2.00 and up in Cape York we paid 2.50. 

It just kills filling a big rig. We have two tanks and I hate the bill. By the way 

Your photos are wonderful.

Celia & Rick

2018-10-20

We had to laugh over the price you paid for a drop of Ale...hope the Ale was 

a good drop though. We would still love to get over to Perth with our Van but 

can't see it happening as we can only get away for a week per month just 

now. We hope to get up to Toowoomba in a weeks time once my next lot of 

Chemo is over for a few days. We heard you saw Colin & Jan for lunch...

they would have been pleased to see you. Love reading about your travels. 

Now I am getting your emails we are able to follow where you are.

 Look forward to reading your next email. Celia & Rick

Leigh

2018-10-21

Wish we could send some of our rain east.