NOSTALGIA REVISTED ... for Lyn ... a new JOURNEY FOR JOHN

At last! Blog up and running. You don't want to hear all the challenges of I.T., my old laptop, my new laptop with Windows8.1 [which I've found impossible], of no signal where we have been, lost passwords .... and lot's more.

Now we are in Fitzroy Crossing. Been here for a week. No-one else spends a week here, but tomorrow we link up with friends who've just trekked up the Canning Stock Route ... everyone in their tag-along team had to fit new shock-absorbers when they reached Hall's Creek.

John has a job .... today he's IN CHARGE of shifting the sprinklers in the caravan park where we've been camped. You don't need to complete a two-day course to be qualified for that work.

Our return to FOSSIL DOWNS cattle station has been a highlight. That impressive homestead compound is now even more impressive than when I worked there in 1969/70. That such an oasis exists amid the millions of acres of dry-looking plains, so close to Fitzroy, is a mystery to many. It still operates as a cattle station -- they recently trucked out 2000 head to be shipped from Broome. You can read more of their place in Australia's history when I finish the book I'm writing about it!!! Don't hold your breath waiting, though.

Other highlights so far: Five Rivers Bastion Point at Wyndham

Bungle Bungle -- Cathedral Cove, Echidna Chasm, Sunset Ridge

Edith Falls near Katherine -- walking [climbing, jumping, sliding] the Grade 3 walk to the Falls