I had tried unsuccessfully on a number of occasions to get
the boys into a local cricket team as we travelled but thankfully Peter in
Denmark was happy for them to join in. We have carted a full set of gear including
helmet and two sets of whites across the country and finally they were going to
use them, on the second last week of the season! We arrived at 8am, ½ an hour early so we could have a bit of
time in the nets as they have only been using the plastic bat since we left
home and I didn’t want them to miss their opportunity to perform while
representing Denmark . At 8:30 a swarm
of kids arrived all in their everyday clothes while the boys were in their full
whites. The stood out like the preverbials after a bad case of elephantitis but
the local lads accepted them happily into the fold. Sam did some Milo cricket
while Jack joined the U/10s for a bit of training and then a scratch match.
They struggled to understand why there were only 10 or so kids in each group
and why they weren’t playing another team until I explained that they were the
only kids in Denmark who played cricket....ohhhhh...was their reply.
We headed out of town just as the rain began to tumble. We
were pretty happy for it to be raining as Izzy was desperately in need of a
wash! We were now fully into what is called the “Southern Forest” area of WA
and is very different to the scorched red earth that appears in all of the
brochures. The area receives around 1200mm of rain a year and is home to
Massive trees most of them completely unique to this area.
We walked the tree tops walk which consists of 8 or so 40m
high metal poles with 60m+ long suspension bridge style walkways between them.
It was pretty cool to be up so high and feel relatively safe after our previous
two walks. There was also a walkway through a grove of tingle trees that out
300 years old and have a massive girth. Due to fungus and other things as it
matures it regularly rots out at its root, making it great for photos. There
was one there until the 1960’s that you could park your car in but now they are
only big enough to stand in.
We moved onto to probably the only real Free Camp in a
national park in Western Australia Centre Rd Crossing. The free camping options
in WA are completely different to SA and VIC. In WA you firstly need to pay to
access the National Park, we bought a 1 yr pass for $88, but then you have to
pay to camp as well from between $7:50 and $12/night/adult and
$2.20/child/night so I am guessing WA is going to break the accommodation part
of the budget!
We set up beside a river and had a bit of an explore up and
down its banks until the light was fading and it was getting to cold (yes cold
with a jumper on) to stay outside any longer.
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