Week 12

Perth  - stay extended 21st - 25th March

Well, we had to extend our stay in Perth. There were a few thing that need to be organised. (Thanks Jayco...) Unfortunately we have been let down again by the quality of our van. Lucky for us, the staff at Caravanland (Perth's Jayco dealer) were very helpful in replacing our microwave, our wheel jack, a broken handle.... but didn't have our replacement seat cushions that should have arrived from ordering them back in Jan in Adelaide. After some snooping it turns out they (ADL) didn't send them. We were told they would be here by Friday.

We couldn't extend our stay at the same park so we changed to the discovery park in Forrestfield.

We filled in the days with visits to the shopping centres, watched a movie, and visited a nearby botanical gardens near Armadale.

The Perth Caravan & Camping show was on so it was decided to go and buy a new caravan to replace the lemon that it seams we have......  just joking... Rachel said no..... But we did get some great information about the next leg of our journey north and a few bits to make things a bit more comfortable. Zachary now has his own tent and is happy to have his own space.

Well, Monday came and still no replacement seats. We had to move on to our next destination. On the way through the top of Perth and after a few interesting phone calls directly with Jayco, we were able to get the seats posted to a caravan park in Geraldton where we would be staying sometime after Easter.

Sandy Cape 25th March - 2nd April

On the way we stopped at Cervantes for lunch. The weather was changing and we were expecting some rain at night.

At Sandy Cape we setup camp, everything was looking great, Zachary was eager to get his tent up for his first sleep in it.
Miffy, Darren and kids were staying here too. Jake had missed playing with Archie and looked forward to some new adventures.
Well night came, so did the rain. Just a sprinkle at first, I turned to Rach and made the comment "is that all? I thought there would be more?" At 12am, it stared to bucket down and the wind was shaking the van... 30mins later Zach decided that was enough and abandoned his tent and bunked down in the van. Surely it would pass soon. At 2am, it was getting worse. camp gear was being blown away so Rach and I made the decision to pack up the awning and shower tent before they were destroyed. It was howling... I reckon the wind gusts were around 100km/h by now... (sorry for the novel..no photo's so a thousand words instead...lol) We were soaked by the time we locked thing down. We left Zach's tent up, hoping it would still be there in the morning. it was hard to get any sleep. I did take a few  photos in the morning... a lot of broken tents, awnings and a lot of water...