Kanga-Roadkill

Ok, Here we go again.

So we had two days off over the week-end, and I guess monday too as it was a public holiday, and all we did was sit in a truck all day.

Saturday we headed to Lancelin, the closest town to the farm to see what it had to offer. The town is a seaside town. It has everything you'd need to survive and no more. A pharmacy, Grocery store and LJ's burgers, best steak burger ever! We of course had to look at the clothes shops while we were there, so David was watching the AFL final on any tv that was available in these stores. Naturally.

We headed to the beach and were not prepared for what we saw. I guess we had the idea of Sydney beaches in mind, packed and rocky. We were pleasantly greeted with the sight of white sandy beaches, turquoise water and not a sole insight. We far prefer these beaches to those on the East coast.
We walked up and down the beach both at Lancelin and the other nearest town Ledge Point taking in the sights, sounds and washed up coral. We stopped in at Ledge point and hit the beach there were more people here.

By Lancelin there is an area where the dunes are crawling with 4x4's, quad bikes and heaps of little kids on annoying little baby quads. You can hear them from the beach and all over town looks like a crazy good time!

We went to Daryll's house to take him up on the offer of a BBQ and some beers after our trip to the beach, we were sure it was number 12. When we arrived at his house however we were not so sure. We couldn't see his car anywhere and the friends he said he was having over to watch the game didn't seem to be making any noise. Daryll's place really is what I imagined a typical Australian outback house to be. Sparse, heaps of out buildings and surrounded by bush, we looked around and couldn't hear or find anyone. So we started to wonder whether we had the right house, scary thought...So we drove home. Later we discovered it was his house but they'd gone to see the cows when we came to visit.

Having forgotten our bathing suits and sun tan lotion on saturday, we decided on sunday to do a beach day in style. Bathing suits, lotion hats even a picnic!! We decided on our way back from the Beach on sunday to take a gander at the Moore park Nature reserve, which is not so much a reserve as it is an area of vast bush. We drove along the fire breaks stopping at the crest of a hill overlooking the sea of green scrub to watch the sun set. It was immensely fun ploughing through nature in a huge vehicle though we must have brought half a tree back with us, along with a smouldering break pad :/

So monday...We weren't sure if we were working today so we played it lazy. Watched tv and had a late breakfast. Daryll turned up around noon and asked if we wanted to take the sheep to market. We helped separate the sheep and load them onto a truck, Len who is Daryll's friend was driving the lambs to the market in Perth so we hitched a ride. Len is such a nice guy! He had so may jokes about how slow his truck was, Like if the headwind was too strong, we'd have to turn back and try again next year. Aahh Len...

We had an entertaining and informative trip to Midland, Just east of Perth, where we dropped off the sheep and had a look at how the market was run. Holly particularly Enjoyed watching the sheep dog running on top of the sheep and jumping big fences to herd them all in the right direction. We watched the dogs for a good half hour  before deciding to leave.

So we jumped back in the truck and drove the 1.5h journey back to the farm. It's a very long way when you have drunk around 1.5 litres of water. Due to the holiday traffic during the week end, our trip back was littered with Fresh Roadkill. Gutted Kangaroo littered the roads, it really wasn't a nice sight. So after we got back we had a beer (Holly a Port & Lemonade) with Len & Daryll and heard some great stories about Roadkill, some moaning about tourists (us...Uncomfortable..) City dwellers and prices of land (fyi...the man who owns the most land in this area is a man from Texas). Then got told about some Emu's that were living on the property which we will scope out tomorrow. They left, we made burgers and are now writing this for you.

Ciao For Now,

David & Holly