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Dec 27 2018
Preparation Day
A day with paper and a calculator is crucial for a great road trip.
So, my road trip to Perth from Melbourne should be a culinary experience with fresh local produces and some fun with fishing lines and some bait.
From my researches I have decided it is best to travel light for this road trip meaning there won’t be any gas cooking butane stoves or any camping gear. Just a rice cooker, a wok, three eskys (one for dry food, one for ice, one for drinks), one crab net, one fishing rod, some spices and plenty of water for the trip. My fail safe is instant noodles and some rice.
I have decided I will travel with a touch luxury by booking into exclusive resorts and some lovely villas or spa suites.
My total budget with accommodation for two and petrol is resulting to about $7200 to keep in mind that doesn’t include about $1000 of cigarettes for two for 16 days.
I have double checked all weather and decided it’s going to be a pretty heated trip therefore the esky with ice just incase my air conditioner decide to fail on me again.
The trip will officially start tomorrow. First stop will be Port Augustas, South Australia.
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Dec 28 2018
The day we took off
Cloudy, 35 deg c, Melbourne
First stop is for ice at a petrol station for filling up our esky for the trip.
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Dec 28 2018
The journey starts
Second \240stop, Port Augustas, South Australia
Air conditioner stopped working at 35 degrees c
So, the air conditioner stopped working and Laurie is swearing again.
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Dec 28 2018
Third stop, Great Western, toilet break
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Dec 28 2018
Pink lake
A bit cloudy in pink lakes. Not nice on reflections so decided will come back and take photos on the way back.
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Dec 28 2018
Passing Service town , South Australia
Passing border town with lots of flat land and tree. That’s the entrance to Australia wheat country.
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Dec 28 2018
Getting Dark, on the way to Port Augusta
Cloudy, light shower, almost non existent shower
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Dec 29 2018
Arrival at port Augusta
Cross roads Ecomotel
For dinner we ate shin ramen and Jin tang fei Niu and some tree fungus salad.
Saw an interesting poem. As they say. Ask for lemons and life will really give you lemons.
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Dec 29 2018
Day two
Heading to Ceduna by passing streaky and smoky bay.
Leaving Ecomotel, rested nicely and heading out to a caravan park in Ceduna
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Dec 29 2018
Went and bought marine products and local fish and chips
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Dec 29 2018
Checking in at Shelly’s beach caravan park Ceduna
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Dec 29 2018
First decent dinner on the trip
So for dinner today we prepared :
Smoky bay oyster:
Freshly shucked
With wasabi and soya sauce
Freshly shucked streaky bay oyster steamed with ginger and spring onion with a sprig of coriander
Prepared abalone with wasabi and soya sauce dressing
Prepared abalone with soya vinegar sauce and a home made spicy oil
Tree fungus with coriander and soya , garlic and home made spicy oil
Green banana prawns local oven baked with garlic, chilli and numbing pepper sauce
To top all this off
Melbournes own mountain goat pale ale.
Hopefully we would be able to feast off on fresher and better ingredients tomorrow.
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Dec 30 2018
Then we arrived at our accommodation for the new year eve
Went and visited the sand dunes and the beach and nearly got lost at the dunes.
Cooked food, killed the electrical box due to dead rice cooker
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Dec 31 2018
Decided to do something adventurous today
But I believe Laurie really didn’t like it. Going to visit the lovely caves around the place.
Did a bit of old school navigation borrowing Trevor’s map.
Walked the last 2km.
After the trip
The best thing is a bottle of cold ale.
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Jan 01 2019
The straight road (longest )
It’s pretty tiring to drive straight under bug attack.
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Jan 01 2019
After bug attack, it’s rain. But didn’t really help in rinsing the car down.
Laurie Washing the bug attack
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Jan 03 2019
We are going to the pinnacles today. Haven’t been there is about 10 years or more now. Lovely Perth weather of 25 degrees. Always cooled down by the Indian Ocean.
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Jan 03 2019
Arriving at lobster shack , after lunch heading out to the pinnacles
Food at lobster shack is pretty average but it is presented in a summer breeze.
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Jan 04 2019
Leaving Perth today heading to Esperance, 710km drive
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Jan 04 2019
A village town toilet break
And also an interesting way of passing toilet paper
The brick wall is about 2 meter high
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Jan 04 2019
The huge wheat belt hwy showing that Australia is not lacking any food.
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Jan 04 2019
Did the great ocean drive visited twilight beach, didn’t see any skippys. Better luck tomorrow maybe.
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Jan 04 2019
Went and saw the not so pink pink lake
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Jan 05 2019
Went to a national park that is suppose to be one of the least walked on.
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Jan 05 2019
Then went to a stone that is 3km walk to the top of 265m high. I gave up in my lovely sandles
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Jan 05 2019
Further to that we decided to really go on a walk with a 40min return.
White sand blue aqua, green fringe it is a dream location to day dreamers like me. Need to spend more time on my next visit
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Jan 06 2019
Went across the Nullarbor again and did a bit more on the journey back. Tomorrow will be at streaky bay for some nicer food. So far so ok.
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Jan 06 2019
Went by a real interesting town were the space ship dropped during the Western Australia pageant was held
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Jan 07 2019
Had a lovely day driving, went pass Ceduna without regrets and went and bought smoky bay oysters again. Then went and bought abalone from streaky bay and finally rested at tonight’s stay for the next three days. It’s a lovely black villa in Perlubie seas
Saw sunset finally
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