'Wherarwee' in Oz: Log 19-01 Herne Hill

Well, we’ve been here since 26^th Dec., almost 4 weeks & the weather has been very consistent. Hot, hot, hot! There has been one storm with winds of 80-90 KPH & a fantastic lightning show but other than that it’s been in the 30’s every day & in the 20’s at night. Being on the tarmac it must be 5-10º hotter. One day our thermometer registered 45º. Thank goodness the A/C has been working well as it’s been on almost continuously & the club members keep saying that the hot weather has yet to come.

We do a few hours work each morning between us & the rest of the day is ours. We’ve been to wineries, ice cream factories, local parks, Fremantle a few times, the local markets & such, but there has been a lot of time just spent in the van as it’s too hot to sit outside.

There is cricket every Saturday & every alternate Sunday & we clean the dressing rooms as well as the gardening & cleaning up around the outside of the club. I say gardening but it’s like a desert, the grass & weeds are just brown sticks sticking up out of the ground. We’ve had a lot of comments about the club looking like someone lives here now as we have made the place a lot neater.

I’ve serviced some of the small gardening equipment & the roller that they roll the pitches with broke down & they couldn’t get anyone to come out to repair so I ended up doing it for them much to their relief.

The hot weather has been getting to us so we have decided to move on. So much for staying till early April. We have the Nullabor to cross yet & people say not in February so we are leaving tomorrow & going straight across to Coolgardie, down do Norseman & then across for the approx.. 1200K’s, but we have been told there are a lot of choices as to stopping places on the way.

Well, that’s about it for now. See everyone soon.