We spent one day camping before we drove to the Western Australia. The reason was simple: No vegetables, fruits, honey were allowed to Western Australia. We had just went shopping in Katherine and tried to be really healthy by buying lots of apples, carrots, salad and all the other stuff which is good for you. We ended up eating 3kg of apples, bag of carrots and all else in two days on our way to the border. The girls had a worse situation since they don't eat meat. Well they emptied their fridge and made everyone a huge ass vegetarian meal. Tasted good by the way and we got rid of all the illegal stuff. We drove happily over the border and I really enjoyed the 39 degrees and the sunshine in my van without the aircon.
In Western Australia we saw Martin and Yvonne from the bloody Germany and they joined us. Now we had six cars cruising on the highway. Andy had a birthday on Wednesday and he wanted to have it on a special location. We camped in the ghost town of old Hall's Creek on Tuesday and decided to head to Wolfe Creek meteorite crater on Wednesday. The road was 150km dirt road and the information told us that it's in rough condition. It was time to make the van suffer again.
There's an Australian horror movie about Wolfe Creek and atleast every backpacker should watch it. It's based on true events and we went to see if the murderer still lurks around the area. The first 50km of the dirt road was pretty rocky and corrugated so quite bad for the shock absorbers and the tires. My car run well though and eventually I arrived to the Wolfe Creek meteorite reserve without problems. All-covering dust isn't considered as a problem anymore. All the other cars showed up as well except the Misty Yellow where the birthday hero Andy and Jonas were travelling. Well we started and decorated the whole camping site with balloons and wear funky clown hats which James had kindly bought. We had also white "United nations of Vans" - T-shirts which Mel and Ash had made with great precision. In the front of the shirts was a map of Australia and in the back was name of the owner and for example "Team Finland".
When the birthday man Andy finally arrived we were already really in party mood and party was full going. It turned out that Misty Yellow had had few problems on the way. Flat tire, broken bullbar and loose fanbelt cover. Well some drinks for Andy and Jonas and all the serious faces were quickly away. The party continued until late evening and everybody seemed to have really good time. We got some refreshing rain as well! Andy is probably never gonna forget this birthday.
Next day I was feeling really for some exercising and we climbed up and in to the crater. This is the second largest meteorite crater in the World, the bigger one is in Arizona. The meteor struck Wolfe Creek around 300 000 years ago but the crater was still around 20meters deep. Big bang. We took our photos, looked for the murderer and decided to go back.
The way back to Hall's Creek didn't go without problems either. Misty yellow is really the car with bad luck and they got another flat tire on the way back. Poor Misty had to wait one more day in Hall's Creek before starting towards Broome. I had some stuff to do so I left beforehand and we decided to met in Broome. On the way we got really cool lightning all around us and when the dark eventually came, we hit a big cloud of huge bugs. I soon ran out of windshield wiper fluid when the bugs just kept on flying towards my headlights. This phenomenon lasted maybe 10-15minutes.
I'm now here in Broome. They have a nice beach here but not surf at the moment and the stinger season is just about to begin. The others should arrive here today or early tomorrow and I've a really hard task of saying goodbyes to everyone. I need to be in Melbourne 28th of November so I can't spend so much time enjoying the huge amount of national parks. So, I've decided to go back to my main objective of learning the art of surfing and driving around Australia. I'll probably head to Exmouth, Coral bay and the Ningaloo reef next. It's only around 1400kms again.
Edit: Well I went surfing anyway. Three hours in 30 degrees water. Felt good to get wet again.
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