Thursday 18th October: Lancelin – Perth 187km Russell lead


Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday dear Kath

Happy birthday to you

Kath’s birthday – “Oh my” what a day!

On our way through to Perth we called in at the Gravity Discovery Centre; a working observatory combined with a large interactive learning centre on gravity and cosmology. Fascinating, but it did my head in – sound waves, light waves, black holes, gravity - all heady stuff. The climb up the leaning tower to drop water bombs was cool – 180 tonnes of steel, 222 steps, 45 meters high, 15 degrees of inclination – and the 360 degree view from the top was pretty spectacular too. On to Perth, hired a car then proceeded to drop the campervans back off 2 blocks away. Do we blame the Navman or the Navigator? The map shows 167km from Lancelin to Perth plus a little bit to the Discovery Centre but we ended up doing 187km for the day. Now, I ask you, do you really think it takes 1 ½ hours to drive 2 blocks? The short answer is yes, it can do! Finally after much stress, one lead vehicle and two following vehicles, through traffic lights, intersections, motorways, side streets all without losing one another we made it – late, but we made it. A grand total of 7,252km. We drove across Perth to the northern suburb of Scarborough to The Rendezvous Hotel on the waterfront. A palatial place, in the middle of renovations, where we were lucky enough to get a renovated room with views north up the coast and its own private little balcony. Across the street, we found a lovely restaurant for the double celebration of Kath’s birthday, where Russ presented her with a gorgeous pearl necklace inspirationally designed on the Staircase to the Moon theme, and the successful completion of the 4 wheeling part of our holiday. After dinner, it was back to our exquisitely comfortable rooms for a blissful night’s sleep.

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