After a day of denial we pulled ourselves together and packed up our dusty camper in preparation for the long haul home. We're not exactly sure what route we'll take so in the spirit of having ditched our itinary long ago, we'll make it up as we go depending on how everyone is faring. Our first leg was Kalbarri to Dallwallinu via Geraldton and along the so-called "wildflower Way". It was odd to be back into farmland and civilsation again. We enjoyed seeing the wildflowers that were out along the way but definitely not the infinite swathes of flowers as far as the eye can see as depicted by tourism marketing. Perhaps we missed the best bits and it was going on somewhere else. Still what we saw was lovely and it was good to get a taste of it. Dallwallinu is not WA's top tourist destination, being in the heartland of wheat farming. It was a convenient place to stop but that was it.
Next day Grand Final day, leg 2 of the haul was from Dalwallinu to Coolgardie. We spent the morning tuning in to the Coodabeens in the lead up to the game and then tried to follow it on the ABC as we travelled along. We made a couple of fuel stops and took the opportunity to look in on their TV to check on Collingwood's progress. Midway throught the last quarter it was all getting too exciting to try and follow on the raddio so we pulled in at a dot on the map called Yellowdine and raced inside to watch the last 10 minutes. The barman joined us and got swept up in our excitement and was barracking along with us despite being an Eagles fan. We walked out of there stunned with the drawn outcome. Oh well, at least we'll be home for the rematch! When we eventually got to Coolgardie we dropped off the camper and zoomed in to Kalgoorlie to check out the super pit- an absolutely MASSIVE open cut gold mine that goes on and on and we wondered just how far they could (and will) take it. It was good to see but hideous as well.
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