Day 17: Salmon Gums to Norseman

Lovely caravan park but frosty morning this morning, it was -0.1 degrees at 6 am but quickly went back up to 7 degrees by 7:45 am. The girls shower was still cold this morning and a bit smelly. So again I decided it wasn't worth a cold shower just to smell nice.

Lots of salmon gums lined the local streets and in the natural bush areas. These ones are not as pink as up north but still a favourite tree. We are heading north toNorseman and the wind was a NEasterly. Both breaks today were just on the side of the road. Peter's new bike has developed a noisy bottom bracket. The boys all had a look at it but couldn't fix it.

When we got into Norseman, Peter and Collis rang the bike shop in Bunbury where Peter bought the bike and tried to sort out some sort of solution. It's a bit difficult as there are no bike repair shops anywhere from here to Adelaide. Collis took 3 of the boys shopping for food and I had already done the shop for the next 3 bush camps. I had a word with Peter about the amount of food he had in both eski. Peter is worried he will run out of food on the Nullarbor but we were able to reassure him this has never happened. He did a big cook up tonight to get rid of some of his excess.

Fran, Jim, Di, Collis and I went to the motel next door for dinner. Doug went to the roadhouse for a hamburger and Jacquei and Peter cooked in. The motel meals were quite huge and Di and I were unable to finish them. There was some party activity somewhere in town tonight but I mostly slept through it.