I love Carnarvon. This is the first town we’ve been so far that I’ve thought: “I could live here.” I remember the last time I passed through loving the light here. The bougainvillias are amazing, and there’s “plantations” all around. They have a great weekend growers market. My only concern is the completely unexpected freezing nights! Hot water bottles all round! We stayed four nights as I had a head cold…. or swine flu. Hard to tell these days…. I am concerned that I am leaving outbreaks in my wake.
We leave tomorrow morning for some more of our infamous free camping. We’re heading out to the Kennedy Range and then onto our first wwoof – one week at Lyndon Station – a cattle station in the Gascoyne. We were sort of umming and ahhing about doing this so soon in the trip, but we’re now really excited! (And glad to get off the tourist run for a little.) Food is my area of responsibility, so today I went slightly crazy at the local supermarket, as I don’t expect to see a shop again for more than a fortnight. I don’t want to run out of food! I can see I’ll be force feeding everyone enomous fruit salads so I don’t feel stupid that it all went to waste.
