Yesterday I walked to the peak of the big rock then continued on the 'long' walk trail to another, not quite so big rock, following the marked trail. Then I ran out of markers, little metal posts with arrows indicating where to go, as I got to the other side of the second rock. To go further would have taken me into bush and, not being an experienced bush walker and not having a compass etc and with hand held 2 way having run out of battery, I took the safe option and backtracked. Today I followed a track from the camp which turned out to be this missing part of yesterday's walk and it turned out that was was nearly home when I turned back! It was still interesting as I saw more of the system of acquaducts that made up this catchment area.
Meanwhile back at the ranch/van, Elaine had turned on the hot water system to have a shower and the water wasn't getting hot, which meant I think that the hws wasn't working. After a consultation with the operators manual I turned it off then on a couple of times and it started working. That wasn't soon enough to stop Elaine freezing and using a kettle of hot water, but later on I got a hot shower!!!
Back to the Great Eastern Highway and on to Kalgoorlie passing through Coolgardie.
We then picked up Elaine's hard drive of movies which our lovely house sitter Kath had posted to Kalgoorlie after we forgot to pack it. Then a wee bit of shopping before heading to Centennial Park where we shall spend the night. We have about 9 other vans for company, unusually 5 of them are motorhomes like us.
Good night all I trust that you will enjoy tomorrow and remember the sentiments and sacrifices that Anzac Day commemorates.