3 weeks later...

We are well, we are not bored but we are wondering how sustainable it is for us to remain here in the national park.  With restrictions remaining in place for a further 4 weeks, WA Premier is saying borders and movement within the state will be the last consideration. 

Our European friends have managed to arrange flights to Europe so left on Wednesday.  Now there are five....  we are going to consider getting back to Qld over the next few weeks, as we have now accepted that we will not be able to move further west then be in the northern part of the state before September. We are going to turn around and head back to Qld, we have no idea where to at this stage. Crossing states will be a challenge, but currently we can still get back into Qld.

So what have we been up to.... 

Climbing East Mt Barren, three inclines and two saddles

Fishing, still yet to catch a salmon

Wash day

Our camp ground

Hot showers


Our view

 Our beach

Beaches and walking trails within the National Park, we are exploring

We pop into town once/twice per week to top up on water, go to the dump point, empty rubbish, and get a few groceries.

Swapping books with our neighbours,  reading one every few days, already surpassing my yearly goal of one book per month, watch DVDs, Netflix movies, play cards and games, watch you-tube, face time grand kiddies

Partying with neighbours, we have all been here 3 weeks now, so shared a Farewell BBQ, mum and joey at the back, not left out

Building our version of a Canadian Inuksuk on our walk

Always trying to work out the variety of tracks we find on the beach,  any guesses!?

And still trying to spot this elusive bird

See, we are definitely not bored !!!  But it is very isolating, so a big thank you to family and friends for thinking of us and keeping in touch with us.

Hopetoun Hunkerdown

We have now been in Fitzgerald NP for a week, and as we were “insitu” when the new travel border restrictions came into effect in WA, and travel between regions are now closed also, we are allowed to stay.  We wait for the Ranger each day for an update, and so far so good.

View from the lookout, great 15 minute walk from our camp

We are allowed into Hopetoun (9km away), for water and food, we can do great walks around the NP and beaches too. Our neighbours are Bevan and Rhonda, a bit older than us from Toowoomba Qld. in a small off road caravan like ours, Christina from Germany and her partner Georgeo from Italy, in a swag, and Frank a WA local who lives in one NP to the next NP, depending on his mood, quite perturbed that he will be in one spot long enough to put up his tent and tarp, instead of just the swag.  We are all helping each other out with resources as needed.....Bevan’s generator came in handy to charge Derek’s shaver 😂 and sharing the toilet paper provided like normal human beings.

We have local kangaroos who are not faithful to any one camp site, 

a mallee foul that waits for us to shower so he can have a drink at the rear of the amenities block, 

possums that play on our roofs, a poisonous snake near the amenities that is keeping its distance, a huntsman spider in the van that got to live another day back out in the bush........but we are grateful for the daily hot showers and toilets cleaned twice a day by the ranger.  We only have internet service near the beach - good excuse to stretch our legs.  We download Netflix movies to watch later, we are still competing with Bevan and Rhonda as to who will catch the first fish, the Europe couple enjoy picking all the pollution that washes up on to the shore, and Frank and I are always trying to identify the sea birds that fly past. Hand washing every few days, and all this while social distancing. 

Our own private road shared by Mother Roo and Joey.

“Our” immediate region is virus free at the moment, so for now this is “home”.