My loyal readers !!! will note that the last 2 days blogs have been published out of order.

The Elaine report says marginal improvement today but still a long way from good.

Today we have traveled about 180 km north stopping just south, about 30 kms, of Norseman. On the way we stopped for morning tea, at 12.20 pm, and discovered that someone have left last nights fire still smouldering. A definite nono so we shifted the big logs out and doused it as well as we could with our limited water, leaving it still not quite out but safe. We then reported it at the next town just 8 km away. This was Grass Patch and there and the next town, Salmon Gums had unusual church buildings.  They were similar sort of multi sided, but flat sides without the usual church rounded  doors, fancy roofs and windows  etc.

Our camp tonight is at a place called Bromus Dam and is a very old dam with rock walls etc. Quite a large area with lots of space, set a little way off the road but we can still just hear the trucks as they go past. This is our first bush camp of the trip and we have had our first fire (in our fire pit for safety) on which Elaine made a soup ( a little salty in her view, but I liked it) and cooked some lamb shanks for tomorrow.