11th September on to Perth

We slept quite well only being woken every now and again by the wind and the sound of heavy rain, had our breakfast and managed to put the Jayco down after we had wiped what we could to try and dry the canvas. We knew it wasn’t going to be packed up for too long as we only had a couple of hundred km to drive before we would be at the next caravan park .

The rain eased and we set off and once again we enjoyed some of the wildflowers ,but what really impressed us again was the luscious country side with the crops looking just great with acres and acres of fields, as far as the eye could see on both sides of the road,all looking very green or a golden yellow. This, is all land under cultivation with just a few fields with cattle and sheep grazing.

As we came closer to the outskirts of Perth the number of new housing estates that have been built are prolific,they seem to back on to each other, also there are so many sites that have been, or are being cleared with subdivisions in place and ready and waiting for the new homes to be built . The great thing about it all is that they have put the infrastructure into place ( unlike NSW) with excellent trains and divided dual highways criss crossing the suburbs. It also appears that each suburb has a huge shopping centre with Woolies and Coles and many of the other majors to cater for these estates.

However in the papers it was saying that this is still a rapidly growing city and that Perth’s population is expected to to exceed 3 million people by 2050 and that an additional 700,000 more homes will be needed which is double the infrastructure that is currently in place and fortunately unlike many other cities in Australia this city is not yet out of control, however, they must plan and discuss for its future.

Tom Tom had been set and continued to take us along the motorways and roads right to where we wanted to be. We have really come to rely on Tommy and sometimes wonder how we would have managed managed without it

It was a good thing that we had called ahead a few days beforehand for a site, as they were completely booked out. We set up on our powered site and were able to have everything in place before the wind and rain started up again. www.kwr.net.au

Tomorrow we’ll have a drive around and go into Perth to check the place out.