GWALIA GHOST TOWN, LEONORA WA

The rain has dried up and things are heating up. The little town of Leonora offers all the basic essentials, without the benefit of a great personality we so love in a outback town.

Up the road to Gwalia, we met two fabulous personalities in Freddy and Lorrie who manage the Gwalia Museum and free camp ground. Parked up on the hill in what is essentially the Museum carpark, to the left the unique opportunity of campside to a 290m deep open cut gold mine, some 900m wide. To the right, a ghost town experience with a birdseye view.

It's not all travels and tourist trails. It's back to school for Lola this week. The bus is heating up with hot heads and hot weather and the motivation to get stuck into school work is lacking on all fronts.

Off to a slow start, school get's underway and then one day too many with our clothes sticking to our sweaty bodies with no shelter or shade to hide behind, we also got underway. Finally, (road permitting) we are off to Lake Ballard.