Up early and away at 7am, we didn’t hang around for breakfast, just wanted to get on the road. Very cold this morning with the temperature of 6° which felt even lower because of the strong wind that was blowing.
Our first run was to Norseman which is some 400Km from Cocklebiddy in about 4 hours, so an extremely good run. We were all a bit low on fuel as we did not top up at Cocklebiddy, we just wanted to get out of there.
Then an easy couple of hours to Kalgoorlie, booking a motel while a few Kms out of town looking for a good deal which we achieved.
This afternoon was all about preparation as we start on the CSR tomorrow, and we need to stock up on everything fuel, food & beverages.
Off to a servo to top off all the tanks and also fill up our jerry cans, hopefully we have calculated this correctly and we will successfully make it to Bililuna with the fuel usage as calculated.
Filling the Jerry Cans is good fun, especially as we needed to ensure that there was no leakages and that the caps were fitted correctly and tightened. For Bruce and I, we needed to also slip our cans into heavy duty plastic bags, so that if there were any leaks we would not have fuel spillage in the actual vehicle. We will also top off at Wiluna which is about 530Kms north of Kalgoorlie and is the actual start of the CSR proper.
After fueling, off to find a supermarket, yep this is WA and both Woolies and Coles are not open Saturday afternoon (or Sundays). Did find an independent supermarket open, and you guessed it they knew how to charge, but there is no alternative. At least we have brought all the meat we will consume, and a few canned goods with us. Our shopping total was $207, not too bad I suppose.
Back to the motel and repack to ensure that all was in place and we know where everything is packed.
Being Saturday night, after a couple of bevies back at the motel off to one of the local pubs that was recommended to us. Great staff in the public bar.
The attached Dining room also offered a great selection, from tomorrow on we will be self catering all our own meals. So we certainly enjoyed the evening