Wednesday September 30

We followed our usual routine this morning and were, successfully, the last to leave our camp at the Cohen Old School site. 

First stop was Fowlers Bay, we hadn't intended to go there as we understood the road to be bad. However we were advised last night that if we used the eastern road it was good, and it was, part sealed, part unsealed both good smooth roads. Fowlers Bay is another nice town whose main industry is tourist fishing and whale watching. There were no whales to be seen, but it is late in the season and we have seen a lot whales whilst sailing. The town has quite a long history which is set out on a number of story boards along the main street which is on the waterfront. Very pleasant, then we went back to Eyre Highway and proceeded to the town of Nundroo where we fueled up and had a brief chat with a West Coast Eagles fan heading east. There is a steady stream of vehicles on this road heading east, trucks, caravans, etc and quite a few cars not towing anything. A high proportion of the cars have WA plates and you can guess where they are going.  

We are camped tonight at one of the many rest ares, this one about 40kms west of Nundroo.