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23.01.2022 A great few days in Adelaide: staying in leafy Belair national Park, car and trailer serviced, cousins/Auntie Geor visited, then a weekend of kulcha, comedy and circus at the Fringe Festival. Now we are heading across the top of the Eyre Peninsula. We drove past the world’s largest concentrated solar powered farm that grows 10% of Australia’s supermarket tomatoes amid a salt plain by using green power to desalinate seawater, and a tasty lunch at Archer’s Table cafe in Port Augusta. Some more cool Silo Art to see in Kimba (and a dubious claim), now let the Rat’s Crossing of the Nullabor begin...

21.01.2022 1st try, 2nd try, 3rd try rolling fences! Volunteering for BlazeAid was an incredible experience and we are glad to have done our part in helping some part of the community on Kangaroo Island get back on their feet! @ Blaze Aid Kangaroo Island

20.01.2022 Through death comes life

09.01.2022 for those who know Sheepy

08.01.2022 Finally getting this up for those who want to see what we’re up to. Heading tomorrow to Kangaroo Island to see if Blaze Aid can use some help...

05.01.2022 Here’s the crew we joined https://m.facebook.com/BlazeAidKangarooIsland/

05.01.2022 So we have spent the past 10 days on Kangaroo Island, 50% of which burned during the recent horrific bushfires. We nearly didn’t come, but got in touch with the superstar crew at Blaze Aid who put us to work clearing fences for a week. So many farmers lost livestock, machinery, property, feed and kilometers of fences. Long days of wielding bolt cutters and pliers, pulling out staples, stepping over ant nests, rolling up wire and wading through ash filled creeks. Hard to see ...dead and injured animals but also good to see how many survived, even if the sheep’s fleeces are all black from the ash in the paddocks. Incredible bunch of volunteers from different backgrounds, countries and capacities working together, occasionally lucky to get someone who actually knew something about fences who could teach us amateurs. After so many years working on crisis situations far away, it was also surreal to see military personnel, APCs and Red Cross vehicles amid gum trees and kangaroos. But also Inspiring to see a grass roots organization like this at work, attracting grey nomads, tradies with skills and tools, backpackers, people using their annual leave or who were between jobs, a Californian who fundraised for her ticket after watching the fires from afar, a film maker, a journalist, chefs, locals and the old bloke who is legally blind but can still roll massive bundles of wire better than most. We then spent a long weekend chilling at a beautiful beach campground, complete with solar hot showers and only the occasional dangerous beast...

04.01.2022 Where are we now? The stunning Karri forests of the South West, including the 53m high fire lookout at the top of the Gloucester tree (A and L did the climb). What have we been up to? Since we hit WA we ended up changing plans so that A could pop back to Yangon for a week and test out the Covid 19 measures at Perth airport on his return. C, H and L then were lucky to have a few peaceful days at a beach house in Mandurah catching up on school/work, plus a walk to the end of t...he 1.8km long Busselton Jetty, bbqs, backyard cricket and the evening squeals of kids playing spotlight. We then headed down to Margaret River and camped on a permaculture farm with the Bowyer clan before catching up with Bu, Ingvar and Oscar in their little piece of paradise. That corner of the world is incredible. Turquoise waters, white sand, pristine bush, mountain biking and riding trails, kayaking, surf, yoga in a barn, wine tasting and so many good meals. Rounded it off with a moonlight screening of Parasite at Cape Mentelle winery, with cold bottle of white and a charcuterie platter of course. What’s next? Down to see the Southern Coast before we turn inland and begin the journey northward....

02.01.2022 So we made it to the other coast! Crossing the Nullabor strategy involved listening to the original radio play of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, audiobook of Sapiens, a themed playlist from Paul Guerin (Wide Open Road, Under the Milky Way, Great Southern Land, etc), and reading Deep Time Dreaming aloud. Night 1@ Perlubie beach near Streaky Bay, a day swimming with sealions and dolphins@ Baird Bay; Night 2@ Cactus Beach windy sand dunes; Night 3@ free camp in more windy dunes behind the old Eucla Telegraph station; Night 4@ Fraser Range Station; Night 5@ wave rock. 3 nights in tents, lots of sand, wind, big skies, we passed road trains, 3 solo cyclists and one amazing French woman on a push scooter.

02.01.2022 The 1st hole...

01.01.2022 So crossing the Nullabor on a long stretch of deserted highway today we met this amazing human... https://www.facebook.com/latrottineuse/