Thierings on Tour

Today was a good day with all the car troubles finally behind us and hopefully a fix that will last a bit longer than 200kms at a time… thank you to Rich and everyone who has gone above and beyond to help get us back on the road quickly and safely. Most of all, it was great to see our mechanic stress-free again, although I’ll say the caution will be there for a while still.

We did a quick top up shop and filled up on water before leaving town., since soon we will be starting our 10 days off-grid. We definitely didn’t get to explore enough around Karratha, but there’s always next time and you can’t see it all, especially without a car! The kids were thrilled to get Maccas before we finally left town.

Today was a relatively short drive to Nanutarra Rodhouse as we decided we would rather have one last night of power & water. It was a Grey Nomad convention and I don’t think we saw any other kids.

We did some sketching with Izzy, practicing our pencil portraits. Scarly got impatient with being a model and instead joined the others while they practiced cartwheels and froggy stands.

Nanutarra also had some interesting signs about distances to other places and it really made us think just how far from home we really are. According to Google, the furthest point from home will be at SteepPoint (the Western most point of Australia), which isn’t too far away now, to be honest.

The weather was turning and shortly after we had dinner it started drizzling, so it was an early night for all after a pretty uneventful day.

Kms travelled – 268