From Perth to Tasmania episode 1

Our latest venture was to travel from Perth Western Australia to Launceston in Tasmania. We sold our house in Perth and bought in Launceston.

We seemed to travel for ever to get out of Western Australia, hour after hour towing our small caravan with car and van overloaded with last minute things.

At Meckeing we stopped for our first camp, a West Australian wheat town with one of its its paddocks seen here






Travelling with a caravan is not a fast way to go, but we had a couple of months to use up before the settlement of our new house, so it seemed an adventure worth the taking, had we known the stressful events that overtook us later may be we would have planned things differently.

However looking back on our adventure we now have a very different picture of Australia. Every region is very different, the dry deserts of the west and centre are in complete contrast with the verdant lushness of the east coast of New South Wales. The mountains and forests of Victoria with bell birds and lyre birds are a whole new wonder.



Finally at Eucla and the last stop in WA. Here you see over the coastal plane from the camp site.


Travelling across Australia one is moved by the size of this island continent.






The plane is vast and stretches as far as the eye can see with low trees and scrub.

Driving on straight roads, and on one instance for a hundred kilometres without a bend, is awesome at least. Thunder clouds rolling across the vast horizon and the occasional road house for meat pies and fuel.

One road house has a time zone all of its own.


Penong was the first experience of civilization after entering South Australia, a dry place with windmills to advertise its dependence upon artesian water. It took us four days to get out of WA and a further couple of days to reach Penong, known for its windmills, and there we stopped to camp.

The South Australian towns with vast wheat bins met us from here onward, and this one to the left actually had wheat bins that stretched the full length of the town.



There is much more to this journey which brought us through three breakdown experiences and finally to our destination. I will post the next stage of this story later. It was a journey that made us appreciate our pioneer heritage and for us it was a journey of considerable adventure and stress. But the Lord brought us through and now that we are in our home we can assess our experience and praise the Lord that in all our challenges we came through in faith and trust.