The Roaming 5: March 26-31 - end of stay in Perth

Well our stay in Perth has almost come to an end! We came here expecting to stay for about six weeks and ended up staying for 20! Wow, that's four and a half months and we've had such a lovely time!

A few highlights of the last week:

Caravan:

We bought another spare set of springs for the caravan just in case we break another spring on our last leg of our journey. They're pretty heavy so I was trying to get rid of excess weight, and decided to install the two brand new suspension rockers instead of carrying them around as spares. The centre rocker has a grease nipple in the end to keep the rocker lubricated, but when I'd tried to the grease had gotten dried up and gone really hard which had probably contributed to the wear. I had to pull most of the suspension apart to get the rockers out so I could clean out the dried hardened grease so the rockers could be lubricated again. On the old rocker, I found the steel bush on the centre pivot point, and the two side nylon bushes which I'd replaced in Darwin, were all showing signs of wear.

The old centre rocker. Notice the wear at the top of the centre pivot point, and at the bottom of the side pivot points.

The centre pivot bolt. See that dark dot in the middle of the shiny patch? That's supposed to be a hole which grease comes out of! It had gone rock hard!

On the last Friday night the kids went to a Youth Group outing at Curtin University. There was basketball, netball and soccer.

After the games we went back to Mason and Jannah Linden's place for supper and a meditation

Our last Sunday in Perth, we went to Gosnells

Gosnells Ecc.

We had lunch with Ben and Bethanie and their family

... followed by tea with Shimon and Jo and their dozen or so Cavoodle puppies!

Tuesday night we had a farewell family dinner at Gino's in Fremantle

Wednesday was the kids' last day at Heritage Perth! :( Jude gave away his scooter, rip board and basketball to two of his new friends Jack Digny and Xavier Symington.