Fletcher : today we drove from Exmouth to Point Samson. It took 10hours to get here, we stopped at Aunty Jane's home town, Pannawonica.
Mackenzie: today we left Exmouth and me and Fletcher played games on the way. It took 10 hours to get to Point Samson we got there at 6.30, it was a long drive for dinner we had stir fry,
Day 30 already, I can't believe it. It really doesn't feel like a month on the road, and all those promises I made myself that I could have changed is now a month wasted! You know the normal new years type of resolutions, eat more salads, walk each day, cut out soft drink, go to bed early.... oh the list goes on but a month in and I'm still the same me. Never mind!! Well I do have an admission to make, today being so long I decided to watch a movie while we were driving, but the movie turned into me watching Dawsons Creek and nearly to the end of season 5! Ok I'm not proud of it but it was an easy watch and funny to see the 2 main actresses before they had Tom Cruises Baby & Heath Ledgers Baby. It only went to season 6 so when I finish that season I hope the words Dawsons Creek never leave my lips again in my lifetime. Today as you can tell from the kids blogs was long. It was a big driving day as we detoured inland a few times to see points of interest and actually spent a lot of the day driving at 80kms. We have spent days wondering whether to go to Onslow and after talking to a lot of people no one had anything to offer us as in what was there or whether to go. The best we got was "a cyclone went through there a few years ago". We stopped for lunch at the Onslow turnoff and made some sandwiches, I didn't want to ask for the 10th time where we were headed so I just waited to see if we turned. We kept driving and Dan had hoped to camp a night on the Robe River which is a free camp, which would have been great as we are a bit over, well a lot over actually, in our accommodation budget after Exmouth, but it was well worth it. We got to the River and it is a beautiful spot, a drop toilet and trees for shade, no water in the river, kind of place you would see on a postcard. We drove in and out again, Dan had his mind set on something so I just let it be. We took a drive into Pannawonica where our friend Jane is from and did a drive about and took some photos. It was a great spot. By now I was in on the top secret agenda, he was going to try get through to Point Samson, so a call to the caravan park to see if their were sites and to let them know we would be there after close. It was a pretty uneventful day, well of course until we had an emu try to play chicken with our van. Dan and I were both watching it, he saw us, he looked at us, made a move to walk away from us, but nooooo what does he do next...... runs straight at us, still with full eye contact?! Silly thing hit the van and ran off, I of course being a dumb girl let out a little girly scream. How did he run off, made of steel I'm thinking. By now the kids have looked up from Pokémon, nothing to do with their mothers scream!! Dan and I just looked at each other and couldn't believe it, knowing mr emu was ok or as ok as we would ever know, I suggested Dan check the car and van for any damage. None, which had it been a kangaroo I'm sure we would be on the phone to our insurance company by now. We pulled into Point Samson after dark to set up, we did well finding the park and really well to set up and cook tea. Not that I like Dan driving that big a day or setting up that late, we were happy to be where we wanted to be and wake up there in the morning.
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