The Elaine report says basically no change, although to me she seems to be just a little better.

Just to catch up on a few notes that I made along the way and have not used yet. On the way to and from Lucky Bay we passed a couple of large tree farms growing what appeared (to me) to be very tall, very thin eucalypts. There appeared to have been some sort underbrush clearing fire being replace by new leaves starting at the bottom of the trees. We are also intrigued by power poles, our understanding being that property owners are responsible for the maintenance of the poles on their property. Fair enough except that we saw lots of poles carrying power to the community (in other words going past the property) just inside property fencelines and wonder who maintains them.

 Our only complaint in the Le Grand National Park was the lack of a dump point for our toilet, either at the campground or nearby.

At Gibson Soak, which is a very small town of maybe 20 houses, there was an fairly large operational factory called the Gibson Soak Water Company.

Last night we stayed at Bromus Dam which, as I said, is a very old catchment that does not appear to be in current use. The area around the dam is set up as a bush camping area with tables, fire pits and lots of ad hoc spots to camp on. There were only 4 of us last night but there is room for large numbers of  campers who would need to be self contained.  My only comment is that it would benefit from a story board detailing the history of the site. There is evidence that there was infrastructure around the dam and there is a pipe coming into the dam from quite some distance away. This pipe is large, I guess about 1 mtr diameter, laid on the ground then covered to create a prominent mound. Where it enters the dam there is a spillway so my guess is that it brings water from somewhere.

As usual we were last out, by a large margin, and drove into Norseman where we picked up some medications. Then we went to the visitor centre to dump and top up our water tanks. Whilst there one of the staff directed us to a free camp for self contained vehicles at the football oval, which is where we are now. Oh, and the other thing that we had to do was get someone to fix our generator as the cloudy weather is not good for our batteries and last night it would not start and resisted my efforts to get it going.  It turned out that the issue was old fuel gumming up the carburettor and it is now doing it's job of topping up the batteries.