What a difference a few nights of sleep and a couple of lazy
days make. I feel almost human
again. All of our chores are
completed, taxes filed and we are getting back into the rhythm of camping - our
first time since we returned from the Grand Canyon 18 months ago.
When we
were here last in 2005, the Australian dollar cost $.90 US; today it’s the
reverse. One AUD costs $1.09 and our
hopes of spending less in Australia seem dashed. Everything is expensive: $6/gallon gasoline, beer at twelve
bucks a six-pack, and $30 haircuts, which is way too much, especially on my
head. So I took up Connie on her
offer to give it a whack. I trust
her to do a good job and I have a hat just in case. She’s the one, after all, who has to look at it, not I. Turned out better than “not bad.”
Emma, a
friend and fellow Jane Goodall volunteer in Uganda, emailed us to say she will
be in the Margaret River area on the SW corner of Australia towards the end of
the month, so we revised our plans and Instead of heading south we will see the
northern coast first and catch up with her later on.
Our first
stop was at Cervantes, just outside of Nambung National Park, known for its
rock formations, the Pinnacles, where we saw our first kangaroo of the trip and
emu footprints, but no big birds.
We finished the day with a sunset picnic on the Indian Ocean.
