Back on the road again after our 6 day hiatus in Perth. We travelled north via Bullsbrook to visit the RAAF Base. RAAF Base Pearce is were my RAAF career really started, up to then I had about 2 years of training. So when I stepped out onto the tarmac at Pearce I felt I was a true “RAAFie”. We also drove thru the married quarter patch and boy had that changed but I keep forgetting that it’s been 40 years, so you have to expect significant changes. Bullsbrook was basically just RAAF housing back then, now its basically a mini outer suburb.

From Bullsbrook it was off to the Pinnacles at Nambung National Park. The Pinnacles are rock formations that are around 500,000 years old and for most of that time have been covered by the sand around the area. In fact its stated they have only been uncovered for the last couple of hundred years, before that it was at least 6,000 years they had been covered. When you seen the expanse of land they cover, that’s a hell of a lot of sand.

From the Pinnacles we called into Jurien Bay, a nice little seaside town about 230 K’s north of Perth. From Jurien Bay we travelled a bit further on to Sandy Cape camp area for a bit of freestyle camping. No power or water, so this is were the self containment of the van comes into play. With solar panels we can charge our batteries, although the microwave and heating are off limits (need 240V for them). Of course the gennie can be used but that’s only if we have no sun to charge the van’s batteries. It’s really the amount of water you have that defines how long you can stay “off grid”. We’ll be here for a couple of days before we head off again.

Keep safe everyone!