Well, this morning the whole van is up with the sun at 5:30am and eating breakfast. It is very hot and humid. Everyone is grumpy and our bodies are totally confused by the change of time and the weather. Glen and I decide to have showers as we will be in a park tonight and don't need to save water. We are on the road by 6:20am and we have full sunlight. We stop at Cocklebiddy for a toilet break and we are all looking for lunch by 9am!!!! The outside temperature on the car reaches 34c by 9:30am. I was the lucky driver to get the 146km stretch of straight road, not one corner in sight!!!!!
At this stage we still don't know where our destination is today, Kalgoorlie or Esperance. We figure we can put in another 750km day of driving to reach our destination, however, with the rain forecast we are not sure which direction to head. The original plan was to go down to Esperance, enjoy a few days on the beautiful beaches and show the kids, then head up to Kalgoorlie for a couple of days before we head home. However, with the cyclone, the weather is not so conducive to beach time and we don't want to travel 500km out of our way to spend three days sitting in the van and playing cards. We have no mobile reception to get an update on the weather so we decide we will wait until we get to Norseman, check our the weather forecast then and make a decision with the kids.
We stop at Balladonia for a quick break on the way. They have a great museum there and Skylab displays. When we leave Balladonia the rain sets in. There has been a lot of rain in this part of the country over night by the look of the water on the side of the road.
By the time we arrive in Norseman the outside temp has dropped to 20C. We can't believe the difference in just a few hours. It is now 1:30pm and we have to make a decision. A check of the forecast shows tops in Esperance over the next few days of 19 and 20 and rain.........mmmmm......not great beach weather. Kalgoorlie isn't a lot better, tops of 22 and less rain, but you can look for gold in that sort of weather. So we reluctantly make the decision to head north. Glen and I had our hearts set on Esperance, but the kids are stoked to be going to Kal, especially our rock boy who is determined to find gold and be rich!!!!
We drive all the way in the rain and set up in the rain. Looks like this damn rain is going to be with us until the end!!! We had the idea in our head that when we hit the west we would be back in the heat again, but not so. We wonder what ratio of wet to sunny days we have had in this last half of our trip!!!!
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