7/7/12 Drove off towards Halls Creek this morning. The Caltex garage refused to sell diesel and sent me up the road to Shell where we waited 15 minutes to be served. Drove into the CBD and visited IGA to stock up the larder. Our aboriginal brothers everywhere. Had morning tea and then drove on to Ngumban Cliff Lookout where we camped for the night with a dozen or more other groups. Very hig position with good views in all directions. Watched some satellite TV and saw mt football team Storm go down in flames.

8/7/12 Another cold night, but up reasonably early and headed off towards Fitzroy Crossing. The Fitzroy river is quite large although not as large as our Fitzroy. Only a single lane bridge over the river though. Filled up with diesel and asked what was going, only to be told nothing but a Rodeo. Decided to move on and make our way towards the Boab Tree Rest Area. This is quite a large area surrounding a very old Boab tree. Some people said it was between 1000 and 1500 years in age. It is very large and hollow in the middle. They tell me snakes etc live there. About a dozen vehicles stayed the night but only 3 were motorhomes/campervans. We are certainly outnumbered by caravans.

9/7/12 Drove into Derby this morning. Stopped off and looked at the Boab Prison Tree before motoring into Derby. Visited the local Information Centre and then drove to the BP Fuel Depot where we filled up with diesel and water. Then out to the Jetty for a walk around and some morning tea. Into town to buy meat, groceries and beer and then a look at a couple of local trees before returning to the Prison Tree for lunch. Drove on to the Nillibubbica Rest Area where we stayed the night with 20 other groups. Free camping is very popular.

10/7/12 I had arranged yesterday by phone to have the van's oil changed today so we were up early and drove the 103 kms into Broome for our 8.30 appointment. The GPS decided to play up and we drove all over Broome before getting to our destination.The garage filled us with some reservations but, nevertheless, we decided to proceed even though they were unable to source an oil filter any where in Broome. Afterwards we drove over to Cable Beach and then found a laundromat to get our washing up to date. Neither of us are great fans of large towns so we decided to hightail it towards Port Hedland. As I write this we are at the Goldwire Rest Area some 121 km south of the Roebuck Plains Roadhouse.