Sunsets again were amazing, as was the full moon.
Sometimes you need to be creative to get the solar panels facing the right way, strategically placed recovery tracks did the trick this time.
Plenty of signs of the critters around us. This small bird flew into the window of the car and fell to the ground, half an hour of coaxing got him flying away.
This dugite had been run over not long before we got there. Even in his worse-for-wear state, he tried to rear up at us to defend himself. He is the biggest dugite I’ve ever seen, would be close to 2m long.
After 5 nights, we had a slow pack up, last swim at the beach then on the way home. We stopped at Holt rock, approx. 400km from home. There are remnants of the old water tank and machinery. A galah was making a racket until sunset.
We were on the road by 5:30am, stopping at Hyden for brekky, Corrigin for a toilet stop and home at 12:00. All up we did 2302km and used 400L of diesel, tried to stay at the speed limit but sometimes there was a 30-40kph headwind so I slowed down a bit to give the Ranger a break and keep temps down as it was mid-30s outside. Average consumption was 17.4L/100km towing our 2T poptop van (worst 20.1L/100km, best 16.3L/100km).
The area has pristine beaches, you don’t see too many others while you are down there and no phone reception makes for a nice relaxing break!!