Sunset at Fraser Range salt lake
We washed the motorhome at Hopetoun this morning at a very new car/truck wash. We got most of the bugs off (there were a lot of dead locusts which we’d run into on our trip up north near Carnarvon.) However, we didn’t stay bug free for long, as we ran into many bees just shortly after we left town.
We cut across on the Jerdacuttup Road which the attendant at the caravan park told us had just been paved, and it was a good shortcut, saving us almost 50 kilometres on our way to Esperance. We bought some groceries, fuel, and ate lunch at Esperance, then headed north toward Norseman. Although there had been a very strong cross wind all morning from the north east, it began to die off later in the day, or we’d have had a pretty huge fuel bill as we were driving right into that direction in the afternoon.
From Norseman we drove east about 80 kilometres to the Fraser Range rest area where we are camped for the night. There were a lot of march flies (horseflies) when we arrived, but they disappeared as it cooled off in the evening. There was a very nice sunset over the salt pan of the dried up lake tonight. The wind has completely died tonight and it is very clear, cool and calm out. The stars are very bright in the pitch black sky, as there is no light here, not even moonlight, tonight.