We are into our third week and 2nd week by ourselves. Our guests have been couples or small groups and we have found them both interesting and delightful people. We are now looking after course sized groups and we are certainly busy around dinner time.

We continue to venture into this amazing coastal region on the Nullarbor Plain. At night we can hear the waves breaking on the beach, which is about a kilometre away. The sand is white as snow. In places you encounter giant tidal wave size white coloured dunes crashing into the mallee, they are a real challenge to climb, moving slowly onwards pushed by the strong winds that we regularly experience. The windy West is a common phrase used amongst WA travellers.

We are getting to know our wildlife friends, the male emu and his four juveniles are not too worried about us now. We are encountering many and varied reptiles, some laden with eggs busy digging burrows and ready to lay and we are getting reports of large pythons being sighted on our track. There are ample evidence of reptile activity , we encounter snake tracks in the dunes. There is a resident python at the Burnabbie ruins. We have even found tadpoles in isolated ponds of water on the Pannikin Plains plains.

The Quandongs are still fruiting, a mixture of brilliant red ripe fruit and green new fruit. We many find plants that not only survive but thrive in the harsh western desert region.

We spend time keeping the veggie garden healthy, it provides our fresh herbs and greens. Lizards find the garden a great place to make burrows. While we are often experiencing showers over a week with warm weather approaching more water is going to be needed. We report the weather two times in the morning, 7am and 10am, to the Bureau of Meteorology. At least every second day we are out doing bird surveys and we also check the tracks and walking trails.

We have had a number of thunderstorms pass over us, they have brought good rain and filled our water tanks. It also makes for some great sunsets.

While our home and its associated infrastructure is quite extensive it quickly disappears into the bushland after a few 100 metres.