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| Like children, the birds don't like the skin
We went to Rainbow Jungle, the parrot sanctuary in Kalbarri - a terrific setup with some lovely birds but still sad to see the ones in cages even though they have plenty of room. Then we sat and watched surfers being towed by jetski onto waves for filming, Ray's getting more and more ‘surfsick’ than homesick.
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It's official we are in the outback, we past a sign that said so!!
23rd-24th June - Heading for Kalgoorlie via Mt Magnet on Saturday (we skirted Geraldton as there was so much traffic). About 80 ks south of Kalbarri is the Pink Lake, which is advertised as a tourist site but when we were driving past it there were no signs whatsoever and we couldn’t stop on the side of the road so couldn’t get any photos. A pity, it was something beautiful to see - the algae in the water makes it pink just kilometre after kilometre of pink water. We free camped in a roadside camp, by ourselves, between Mt Magnet and the Golden Hwy, not a bad spot and not too many trucks going past through the night.
We woke to a beautiful sunrise viewed from the back door. Very cold and a bit windy again so glad to be travelling.
We've had many oversize loads going past, usually the opposite direction but this has been the widest and meant we had to go off the road to pass.
We've had many oversize loads going past, usually the opposite direction but this has been the widest and meant we had to go off the road to pass.
Again the countryside is changing all the time, we’ve been driving through farmland, sheep and cattle pastures and scrubby bush as well as mining sites. 
The mines leave a big mess and lots of these man made mountains but I guess that’s the price for having the boom they’re having over here, although everything else has a big price on it as well, accommodation is astronomical here for renters and everywhere has rows and rows of dongas for the-fly-in-fly-out workers.
One place we stayed on the coast had enough rooms for about 400 people behind the caravan park and as we got to Kalgoorlie on Sunday after another 6 hour drive, we couldn’t get into one of the caravan parks-there were mining trucks everywhere-but we got into a nicer one anyway and will stay for a couple of nights. Kalgoorlie is a big place.
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| No wonder these get hit by cars, a number of times the eagle was the last to move off from roadkill when we drove past. This one just didn't move on. |
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| These are photos of a part of this building in Menzies covered in number plates |
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