Round Aus Diary - Now on Windy WA Coast

Juma,

Looks like you guys are having a great time even with the equipment mishaps. Like your website. Still reading your diaries etc and starting to get serious about planning our own trip around the block.

Keep safe and above all, enjoy yourselves.

Today the weather has cleared and should be good till Sunday when a small front is expected. After Sunday looking good again.
Have a great time
Cheers

This was a 1½ weeks ago, but

Don’t now about Margaret river area but between the Manjimup to Albany zone some tracks have a fair bit of water in some sections nothing extreme but on some of the larger sections of water you may want to check depth and how solid the bottom is.

Also some beach access has been washed away making getting off extremely hard also if a storm front comes in the beach can disappear all together fairly fast.

I turned around on 2 tracks, as the water was a little higher than I was willing to go thro in a 4WD with no snorkel or diff breather extensions, we did speak to a guy in a old Range rover who had just done a track we were about to go down and he said he had water coming over his bonnet on sections.

We also slid down 2 muddy hills, even crawling in Low range 1St gear, and the ass end was hanging right out as we had trees on one side and a good sized drop off on the other and guess which way the car would slide. Wile I was franticly using every inch of traction we got to creep the 4WD back towards the tree line before having it slide in the opposite direction agene, the poor guy in the passenger seat was using the F word a lot and had a firm grip on the Jesus handle.

GREAT read, you've bin to some dream places, & with 2 young kids, it's gotta be good for the family? Hope the rest of your trip is as good
Phil...