The journey begins! On planned schedule, we headed out of Perth and heade up through the city of Joondalup – an area that quite simply wasn’t there 20 years ago!

Mum and I have been absolutely staggered at the growth of the urban area north of Perth – we drove through one area and all we saw was homes under construction with only the odd one occupied – a trades mans paradise! Those blokes and their utes were everywhere!

In just a couple of days we have also seen those huge Masters stores under construction – and right next to huge Bunnings stores also under construction! In Pat’s words – massive!

All good fun driving – we should have gone THAT way! Ho hum! Very windy driving and lots of patchy rain but as we got closer to Cervantes we should head out to The Pinnacles whilst there was at least some small break in the weather – we made it and missed the rain showers even if it was still blowing a gale.

Back in to Cervantes and our B&B for the night.