Ravensthorpe, Australia

Nice rest areas again near here with no signs saying you must go to the caravan park!! The IGA shop(built 1900) here has to be seen to be believed, really old fashioned with every conceivable thing you could think of. There is a big nickel mine ...

... " which is an exact copy of the first ship to anchor in Albany. Today, I left Albany behind and drove the 280kms to Ravensthorpe for a 1 night stop-over. Not much to say about Ravensthorpe - a quiet, sleepy bush town. I took a drive out to Hoptoun on the ...

Our trip from Kalgoorlie to Ravensthorpe was terrific.  We took some back tracks and camped out overnight.  Imagine Toddy's delight when we were camping with two couples who are travelling with restored tractors and doing about 50km per hour tops ...