Who would think that up here in the mid-North I would be sitting here sheltering from the rain to write this blog. I kid you not all morning we had wind, not as strong as yesterday but wind nonetheless, and since midday when we left Mt Magnet it has been raining continuously increasing in volume as the day has progressed. They need the rain in this part of the world so good on them, but for us it has meant a drive of about 300 kms which is about 100 kms more than we normally drive. The first planned stop was not suitable as, even in the light rain at that time, it would soon become wet and muddy, the next alternatives was already wet and muddy, so we stopped at a town (actually just a siding but it did have a couple of houses and a really nice stone pub come guest house) but after having lunch decided to move on. Thus we arrived at Mullewa and booked into their caravan park, council set up and run and quite nice. It has laundry and showers and power all of which are nice to have in this sort of weather. How long we will be here depends on the weather, tune in tomorrow.

We left our camp, last out but at 10 am, not bad for us and were greeted at the by 2 huge oversize loads heading south. All of this after my morning walk when I saw a few wildflowers starting to make their appearance. I also saw a few burrows today and yesterday which have me intrigued so I will have to find someone with the knowledge to identify them. On the road we came accross a magnificent eagle, feeding on road kill, but he took off before I could get a photograph, I made up for that little later getting some good shots of another eagle. We have noticed more roadkill on this road than on other roads this year, which I guess means that there are more animals around. We fuelled up at Mt Magnet still in fine weather starting to cloud over. Then we turned west into light rain following the old, abandoned railway line towards the coast. The scenery was rather pretty with huge green fields and wildflowers starting to show themselves and the rain added to the beauty.