As I intimated, very subtly (!), yesterday we are camped in a lovely spot. Not many neighbours but those we have are nice. It surprises me how many people live on the road full time, modern day gypsies maybe. Today for example we met a couple who have been on the road for 8 years and straight after that a man who had been on the road for 16 years. Yesterday a young couple with 4 daughters who are about 6 months out and plan a couple of years, distance educating their daughters on the way and earning money writing for magazines. These are just an example, there have been many others, some have sold their homes and others just rented them out. I have to admit that it sounds like an appealing lifestyle which we couldn't manage without figuring out ways to see our grandchildren and children at regular short intervals. Going back to the couple from this morning we discovered how small a world it is, they come from North Perth and knew lots of people that I knew from the area (my grandparents lived there and I knew lots of local people). They also were boating people and once again we had lots of mutual acquaintances.

Back to the travelling bit, this site is fantastic and worth a lot more than the couple of days that we are giving it. There are two issues firstly a cold wind, probably right through the eastern shore of the Penninsula , which is easily countered with warm clothes (which we had to dig out from long term storage under the bunks), but there are also flies in their millions which are not so easily countered.

As usual we have a fire operational, last night using some of the wood that we carry with us collected along the way and cut up using my battery powered chain saw. However we were running low so on my morning walk I collected some drift wood before finding out that could attract a heavy fine. So we put it away from our camp, but we were lucky enough to find a huge, ex-light pole piece of wood which is now smouldering away as Elaine cooks a rossellah (similar to a stew).