Robe River Rest Stop {Free Camp}

After leaving 80 Mile right up until the last minute we remained undecided on where we would spend the night before heading to Winning.  We had to go into Karratha to get some things I had dumped at the Hunters place, do a big spot again and post a few items.  So after getting to Karratha at a reasonable time we decided we would do all of this and then keep plodding along and find a rest stop.

We had some serious camper sorting do to and didn’t want to set up on the Hunters front lawn nor crash in the house {knowing they too had unpacking to do themselves}.

So we ended up on the Robe River for the night.

A nice area with plenty of space, although it did start raining right as I started cooking dinner.  Only a light drizzle but enough to be painful given the awning wasn’t pulled over.

J spoke to Rory from Kordarrie and we had planned to stop in there but it would all depend on how much rain they ended up with as to what the Twitchen Road would be like.  Rory said in the morning that we should be right, he hadn’t had that much and Yanery {his neighbor} had only had 8ml overnight.

So we headed that way.  The first few kms where wonderful, followed by a few puddles we could easily get around….. That didn’t last long till we had to ride the shoulder to get around some of the ‘puddles’ and then when we got about 2km from the driveway we wanted we had to go ‘bush’ only to discover that said driveway was under water.  After all that effort we turned around and headed back to the main road. 

Turns out that Yanery had infact had over 30ml of rain over night!