Monday, 31st July.
It became extremely cold through the night and extra blankets were needed. When we fell out of bed at about 7.00am to make tea, the temperature gauge in the caravan was showing minus 3 degrees and there was a thin layer of ice over the car and caravan. And we thought we'd left the cold weather behind!
We left at 7.35am when the temperature had soared to minus 1 degree and headed for Norseman, about 80kms west. After some minutes, we were up to zero and the temperature continued to climb and had reached 7 by the time we arrived at the Norseman Roadhouse, where we had breakfast of bacon and egg rolls and hot, hot coffee.
A right turn off the Eyre Highway onto the Coolgardie/Esperance Highway and we headed for Coolgardie on the Great Eastern Highway, stopping on arrival there for a fuel top up. Next stop was at Southern Cross and from there we could see the rain clouds we'd been hearing about on the radio and kept fingers crossed that we would reach Merredin, book and settle into the caravan park before the clouds dropped their load. Alas, the rain started falling when we were still about 10 minutes away, also thwarting our plan to walk into town for an evening meal.
Tonight is our last on the road for this trip, we have approximately 276kms to travel tomorrow to our home sweet home!
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