July/August

After some time at home and a short trip to Adelaide, I went over to Adelaide and then Perth.
I arrived in Adelaide on Friday 18th August and attended an installation for my youngest nephew on the Saturday night.
I left for Perth on the Monday morning and arrived late Tuesday afternoon. There were few kangaroos on the road so I drove most of the night.
In Perth I stayed with a friend in Carine, Elizabeth, and spent most of the time taking my aunt out, though I was able to catch up with friends from my parents' time and some of mine. We were able to catch up with all my aunt's friends, even one who had got "lost" by virtue of entering a home without any of her friends knowing (but her family knew, as they got her in there). The only problem was the weather was showery most of the time, but this was good as the dams have started to fill and the watercourses are beginning to run.
I left Perth on the following Wednesday morning, fully intending to stop all along the way and take photographs for the school at Villers-Bretonneaux but the rain followed me over. It did not cease until the WA-SA border. One good thing was very few kangaroos on the road, but I couldn't get any good photographs, so I continued to drive (stopped to try to sleep, but couldn't). As I arrived near the border early in the morning, the 'cheap' petrol stations were closed. I had to pay A$2.02 a litre at the Border Village.
I arrived back in Adelaide in the late afternoon, after 2679 kilometres and 26 hours of driving (at the speed limit, 110 most of the way) but a total elapsed time of 34 hours, with an indicated economy of 7.9 litres / 100 km (about 12 km/l or 33 mpg).