Heading Home

'Sammy'

We are officially heading home today which is still over 3000 kilometers away. We decided to break it up into two lots of 1500 which makes Streaky Bay a good half way point to break up the trip and stop for a couple of days. Before packing up we headed down to tanker jetty to see if we could find Sammy the resident sea lion. We didn't have to look too hard because he was having a snooze on the beach just near the jetty. After a quick grocery shop we headed back and packed the van. Beore leaving Esperance and heading across the Nullabor Rick decided we needed to replace one of the tyres on the van - fortunately the third place he phoned had the correct size. It was after 11 when we were finally on our way and we had to head North to Norseman before making any ground in an easterly direction. Just before Norseman I plugged in our home address into the GPS - 2956km to go! Around 4.30pm we set up camp at a roadside stop which was about halfway along the 'longest stretch of straight road in Australia' which by the way is 146km.