The Big Rocking Horse

We packed up at Yacka and drove to Cudlee Creek and stayed there. On the way to Cudlee Creek we stopped at Gawler for lunch. We bought lunch at the shopping centre and ate it in Pioneer Park.

Pioneer Park used to be a cemetery and saw all of the people who died. In the toilet we read about a person who got stuffed in a tree when people were settling there. They found him when they were paving the road.

Next we went to Gumeracha and saw the giant rocking horse. It was made out of 80 tonnes of steel. It had three viewing platforms, the highest one at 18.3 metres high at the head of the horse. It is the biggest in the world made by the Toy Factory. They make wooden toys in the store. They also made wooden games like Catwalk and they also had peg games like Nine Mans Marris and Solitaire. I won one game against my Mum and my Dad won two games against me. Most of the things were hand crafted but some were made in China like the creeping climber which climbed up a piece of string if you pulled two sticks in turn. We then collected our certificate for climbing the big rocking horse.

We finished at Lothebal, to do some shopping.

Easter, Easter, Easter

On Easter We had an Easter egg hunt. Some of the eggs were hidden in the annexe. One was even on the wine bottle. It took a long time. On Easter night we cracked a giant Easter egg with our neighbours, Wayne and Marion. It was terrific.


Me pretending to be a scarecrow

 We drove to Burra and went to the town hall to dress up in old fashioned clothes.

At Burra we saw the churches. They had beautiful patterned windows.

Then we tried to have a sneak peek at the old extinct giant wombat, the Diprotodon. Next we went to the bakery but it was closed so we had to go to the cafe again and I was looking forward to going to the bakery.

Then we went back to the caravan to have tea and Dad cooked pizza for us. Me and Harry gulped down the pizza and Mum and Dad hardly got any. Dad got about 2 pieces and Mum 1.

Yacka

At Yacka we found a place we found a place which we liked so we stayed there.
Tomorrow I found a cubby two of them in fact. One of them was a big clearing and I tied leaves and branched together with grass which became our rope and the other cubby was a tree which had all of its leaves going outwards and diagonally down. One part I made into a door and I even climbed the tree to the top of the cubby.

Next we went to the town (walking) and went on the Yacka historic walk and saw the town hall which had a point on the top and the doorway was an arch and inside was captured machine guns from World War 1. There was a stage and I fell off it on my bottom because I was trying to run off the stage with my eyes closed.

The “Whyalla”



The Whyalla

 At Whyalla we went to the Whyalla Tourist Centre and Marine Discovery. We got a tour of the “Whyalla” which is a warship (it was used by the Navy in World War Two). Before it came back to Whyalla but after it worked for the Navy it was named the “Rip”. The depth of a ship is how much of it sits in the water. The “Whyalla” had a depth of 9 feet unlike the big ships which mostly had a depth of 10 feet or more so the “Whyalla” could go through shallow water.

Lots of Bays

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At Fowlers Bay we went to the sand hills. It was exhausting (Mum brought my camera and it broke). Next time we went we were alone and we followed a dog and he showed us a path way through the plants (it was a bit spiky). Before we got there we went over cow grids (very bumpy and Harry got frightened). When we got there we had to set up in the night (first time ever and we hardly had time for tea).

We travelled to Streaky Bay and saw Murphy’s Haystacks and we climbed them. One I could climb but Harry couldn’t so he made a rock tower (with my help) and got about three nasty cuts. Next time he did it when I pulled and Mum pushed. After we went to Hally’s Beach which could survive against water but it started falling apart because the waves are very strong at Hally’s Beach. Next we saw the Whistling Rocks. They were holes which when the waves swept over them they got water inside them the they shot it out. It was interesting. The blow holes are a short walk from the Whistling Rocks but we didn’t arrive at the right time so the blow holes didn’t work.

Along the road we saw a lizard. It was hiding in a bush and to get it out I rolled a stone into its back and it moved so viciously it gave Mum a fright. We saw some pelicans at the side of the road and Mum took a photo.

After we went to the Tahlia Caves one was underwater cave that had collapsed over many years. The other one had water at the entrance but inside it changed to lots and lots of rocks (some were very big ones too). Ocean Eco Experiences were next and I got to snorkel with Sea Lions. They were very friendly too and only $70 for a child, $100 for non-swimmers and $140 for adults.

When we got to Pilcappa Rock we found out that inside some rocks that hang out there are caves which a little person could fit through and inside one there was a hole which was very big and I ate half my lunch up there and I spent most of my time looking out over the park through the hole and it was very pleasant.


With Mike and his buggy

 In Wuddina we met Mike who was walking across Australia and we had tea with him.

The Long Nullarbor

Eyre Highway today and then we stopped at Balladonia and there was a museum which had part of Skylab!

Next was very, very b-o-r-i-n-g. It was the Nullarbor and especially the straight stretch which goes for 146.6 kilometres. Finally we go to a town. It was Cocklebiddy. It had a gnome garden. A sign that said…

We couldn’t go to Cocklebiddy caves because you had to… be an experienced caver, you had to have proper shoes, eave expected times of return because of the steep slopes, unstable rocks, low ceilings, deep waters and slippery floors.

We went to Eyre Bird Observatory next and saw some views of the Ocean. They looked amazing.


We drove to Eucla and stayed the night at the caravan park.


In the morning Mum, Harry and I rode our bikes to the old telegraph station. It was bricks stacked on top of each other. It was very old.


After we crossed the WA/SA border we stopped off at some viewing places to see the Great Australian Bight. It has rabbit holes. It looked like a giant shark had bit into it.

When we arrived in Munglinup we stopped at a stop. Across the road was a roadhouse. We played on a playground and Harry did the splits on the running machine and after we got food from the roadhouse. I had a toasty which had ham and cheese.

Then I looked at a map and saw that on our way to Esperance we could go to the old school site. When we got there it was a pad of concrete with a stone inscription about the school.

Esperance was next. We went to McDonalds and I climbed a tree. It was gigantic. We stayed with one of mum’s friends from school. We had a bike ride to the jetty and saw Sammy the seal. 

Along the road we saw salmon gums which is a tree type named because they are salmon in colour. There was also salt lakes which we knew we would see because we looked it up on Google Earth.

16km past Norseman was a bay which we parked in. We had neighbours, two of them at least (I can’t remember their names).

We left for Balingup on Saturday to see our Grandma and Grandpa for the last time in six months. We stayed for two nights.

On Sunday we went to the Balingup Sport complex so we could play bowls (some people were playing croquet).

On Monday we went to Broomehill. At Broomehill caravan park they had a round space shaped like an o and we rode our bikes around it. It was fun! We had a picnic at the skate park which (was) on a steep ledge which I got cut two times before I did it one time. The sprinklers were on and we got soaked.

We went to Ongerup next and we went to the immense General store where I spent $3.85 on some salt and vinegar chips. We had lunch near a playground and I went down the firemans pole.

After was Ravensthorpe. Barbie dolls were in toilets, toasters, under irons, by the number plants in toilets. It was weird. We rode our bikes to a hill of sand and rock which we made like a cubby house but very near was some rock formations which I put booby traps (on) and I made some comfort(able spots) as well. There was also a safe I built as well as a door.

At night I was in bed and Harry kept banging into me in his sleep.