After spending 10 hours on a bus, we arrived in Esperance to pick up our new home. Tommy and Sue Druce (who sold us the rig) made us extremely welcome. Tommy met us from the bus and drove us the 65kms to their home, where a lovely meal was waiting for us (Sue is an excellent cook). We listened to their stories of places visited and made notes so we can do the same. In the morning, they took us to the beaches and showed us the reasons they had decided to settle there.
Beautiful turquoise water and super fine sand was what we found. We will definitely return in the summer for a closer look (and to catch those extra large squid Tommy told us about) when the wind isn't blowing straight up from the arctic!
After an emotional farewell (as we felt like we had been adopted), we set off for an 8 hour drive to our friend's farm in Narrogin. On the way, we passed through Wagin (see Mark's post for the giant ram).
We spent a relaxing few days with Vicki and Robert on the farm, took Mark around to see the thousands of pigs they currently have in their sheds, fed the lambs and I learnt to reverse the Ute onto the van and also tow it down the gravel road off the farm :-)
Tomorrow we start shopping for everything to fill the van, from a tin opener to pans, plastic plates to
a generator. Oh, and food...
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