Day 6: Kalgoorlie - Laverton

We are now in Laverton, can you believe our Telstra broadband card for our laptops works here, better signal here than in Perth! We are unlikely to get mobile access over the next 4 days or internet so hopefully we will arrive in Uluru in the 4 days if not Alice Springs should be another 5 or 6 days after that and we should be able to update the blog.

Our day started off with getting provisions and a new fan as our little one was not really up to it in this heat, plus we purchased a UHF radio, "breaker, breaker!"

We then set off on our ghost town road trip which went smoothly.

Laverton has a population of 1100 and its tiny, we are the only van in the caravan park and its a bit scary in the dark. Oly said he will walk me to the toilets before I go to bed and he waited outside the showers for me this evening.

The road we are about to drive down will be 1200 km of unsealed road, it is likely it will be dirt or gravel. We are planning to leave at 6AM tomorrow so it will be cool for Henry as I think he is going to need all the help he can get!

We have plenty of fuel - 40 litres in jerry cans plus a full tank, 60 litres of water and food to feed an army of ants many times over and us for at least 2 weeks so we should survive in the outback if anything goes wrong and wont need to resort to drinking each others wee.

Em

Distance: 360km
Time: 4 Hours
Temp: 33c
Music:
Duran Duran - Greatest Hits
Orishas - A Lo Cubano
Garbage - Garbage