I really didn't want to leave!!
We actually came out a different way and guess what - have a look at the road. A bush highway and much shorter.
Another people story :-Yesterday we were parked in a pull off at Kambalda south of Kalgoorlie having morning tea when a car pulled in and a beautiful young lady wound down her window for a chat. She turned out to be a geologist in the nickle mine just out of town married to a mine engineer. Her son was in the back seat and they were on their way to Kalgoorlie to buy him new computer game. She was born in Cambodia and grew up on the north shore in Sydney. She stopped to tell us about the lookout over Lake LeFroy a couple of ks up the road. ( Proof that you can drive past amazing things and not even know!) She would have liked us to stay a coupole of days so she could take us to work down in the mine. Even though my friend started life as a petroleum geologist he doesn't do mines. She laughed and said the petroleum geologists think they are the glamour boys but understood.
Her mum was a teacher so off we went again - her parents go back to Cambodia every year to start new schools and "squander my inheritence" laughs she. Half an hour later her very patient son got to go and get his game and the driver could get back on the road. All that talking was way too much.

A thought bubble back with Jack -Pa has been worrying about how Jack got his supplies out to his shack and he found somewhere on a piece of paper that says Jack had a " trusty bike". I want to know if he had a dog to keep him company. John says if I ever get off the bloody computer he will google him.