How does the song go 'On the road again........' , but we are nearly home now and that comes with mixed feelings, excitement at seeing our family and the grandchildren again and sadness that the trip is over. Until next year that is!

Late departure today as we both had a shower. According to the Optus coverage map we should have had coverage on iinet all the way home......wrong we ran out shortly after leaving our camp, but we have got it back now. The drive through the Woodlands was very pleasant with lots of trees, shrubs and wildflowers to be seen. Then we stopped at a sign that said Coolgardie Gorge which turned out to be a nearly dry waterhole, but next to it was the remains of a mining operation which we spent some time examining. Then into town which is small but has some very nice old buildings. We followed a sign that said lookout that got us onto a very bad track, but retracing our steps were able to stand on the edge of an abandoned, large open cut mine. Then we found, on the other side of town, the Lions lookout and were treated to the usual superb 360 degree views. The rest of the day was spent researching my maternal great grandparents who had involvement here during the goldrush era, unfortunately not looking for or finding gold.

We will camp tonight on the free rv stopping campground here in town.