Friday 6th April 2018
Well we are off on another adventure, this time around our own beautiful country. First we are headed to Scarborough Beach Western Australia to compete in the Australian SLS Championships. Then onward who knows where for a couple of months.

As usual we were struggling to get organised as little things popped up to delay us (ie last minute purchase of a new rooftop tent). The new tent should have made packing easier as all bedding is in the rooftop tent, so theoretically more room. Don’t know what happened but we need some more work with our building blocks to find a more efficient packing system. Oh well we have about 90 days to perfect it.

As expected didn’t leave yesterday. After getting to bed at midnight we still had a few things to do in the morning to get going but all in all we were going well for us.

Getting an early start at 5.30am to try and see the kids at Belmont North on the way and before school started we finally got on the road at 7am. Twenty minutes in to the trip we had missed every traffic light on the way to Wamberal. “Broadbent luck” is DB’s description. I hope it improves. We managed to see the kids and Andi for her birthday for about 30mins. Well done. We hung around for a little while after school departure then set off about 11am. After a detour to BCF and Wallsend Swimming Pool to pick up parts for our new tent that weren’t available when we collected it and didn’t arrive in the post yesterday, we were on our way. It didn’t take long to get into the countryside. Yay! We love it and can’t wait for this adventure to unfold.

As we drove the road quickly change from dual lane highways to single lanes through little towns and country plains. It is very beautiful. There are so many long straight stretches. Quite amazing.

We had a quick lunch stop at Merriwa, a little country town and then kept driving towards Nyngan As we headed west the plains got a little drier but were still beautiful.  The sunset along the way was beautiful. As always we arrived at our stop for the night in the dark, Nigel and Graham had arrived at about 4pm and were setup ready for dinner. Now to put our new setup to the test. Well it surpassed all expectations. We had our tent setup in about 1 minute and we had eaten within about 40 minutes. Love it. After a lovely dinner, we hit the sack early for us at about 10pm.