What a miserable evening it is raining and has been almost nonstop since about 4pm.

We left our DeGrey camp about 9am after saying goodbye to all our new and unfortunately temporary friends. At these camp sites everybody, or almost everybody, is friendly. The last 2 nights we have had campfires started by Elaine and most of our neighbours joined in. What happens is that they bring there own chairs and drinks and we have a friendly chat, nobody has much to drink and it is a very pleasant close to the day. The first night we had about 20 people and the second about 12.

Anyway we left and headed down to Port Hedland, actually South Hedland for a bit of shopping, etc. Then on to look for a camp spot for tonight. The road south is 'open with caution' and there were a couple water over the road bits, but only shallow water so we were able to proceed without drama. We then came to a spot called Peewah River which is another of the Welcome Rest Stops. Once again drinks under the gazebo, without fire because of the rain. There are a total of 7 RVs here, 2 from Qld, 1 from Tassie, 2 from WA, 1 with French backpackers and 1 from ?? don't know.