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Get out on the highway...
lookin for adventure....
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Beverley to Byford Via Merredin

The Murfit convoy left Beverley behind and made its merry way to Merredin... our cousins let us camp on their farm up on Newcarnie rocks. As you can see we were knee deep in vegetation until "fixit farmer father" got the flora under control. Up until this point I had pondered upon why one would go camping with a "whipper snipper" (all these photos can be clicked on to enlarge them)

Grandad and Reilly - reflecting on the meaning of life???

We had quite a time driving around the region, checking out where my Dad went to school, where he grew up, checked out the Museum - kids loved that, I liked seeing both my Granmas profiled in the "Pioneer" womens section at the museum...

Grandma Edith even got a plaque and a rose in the Pioneer womens garden, that was pretty cool.
We had a lovely afternoon tea/lunch at Springvale - The kids had a great time - terrorising Matthew and Beths chickens (hope they started laying again?)

The museum was great fun, and the tadpole rescue mission was quite something to witness, traumatised tadpoles.. can you imagine?

The whole family went back to where Dad was born and grew up - and we placed a plaque there - some friends of Dad's from Merredin came along too which was nice.
Dad then took us for a bit of a walk and showed us all around - telling us stories of this and that, I particularly enjoyed hearing about his ferrets. I have a soft spot for ferrets... don't know why - I've never even touched one... they look "bitey"

I think secretly Ken wanted to take this peice of "machinery/bucket of rust" home with him.

Geraldton to Dandaragan to Beverley

So we finally left Geraldton and made it as far as Dandaragan - happy to have made that! We had sooo much to do before we left so it was a relief when we finallly rolled out of town.

Spent some time with Dave's brother Johno and family - had a little mini birthday celebration and played on the new ride on mower!
From there we cruised up to New Norcia and spent the night at Bomber and Lisa's place and had tea with them and Phil and Mezza Haywood and their girls.

After dropping my mazda at Bindoon for the week we headed thru Toodyay and York onto Beverley to stay on our old farm "Bally Bally"We met all my family there and had a great time - Dave celebrated his birthday for about the third time (third cake too)Bush camping was the order of the day - nothing like a bit of a challenge to start our adventure! The kids had a ball , playing with fire and smoking us all out...
we caught up with some of Mum's brothers and families which was nice -loads of kids everywhere - all playing on Uncle Ross's new tractorThis is Mum n Dad's old ute - the one they took on their Honeymoon to AlbanyUncle Ken showing the kids how to throw a rock... and showing the adults how to throw your back out!
Me n Dave at County Peak
The kids outside the gates of the farm at Beverley - onto Merredin next