A travel day -  we did some miles and refueled at Mt Barnett roadhouse ($2.429 per litre!), then stayed at a free camp at Barnett Gorge. Had a camp-oven roast lamb for dinner (and soooo much gravy), complete with roaring fire… finally got rid of the bag of jarrah firewood we’d carried since Carnarvon. Yay!

Met a couple from the camp next to us - bloke called Stuey stumbled over for a chat, introducing himself by adding some logs to our ebbing fire. Turns out he and his other half Coral have been doing a round-oz trip like us, starting a month earlier in December 2006 (we left in January 2007) - they’ve been pretty much a month or so ahead of us ever since, even spending time at Cloudy Bay on Bruny Island in Tasmania; and while we spent a year in Margies, they spent pretty much the same time in Perth, resuming their travels just recently - we must have just missed crossing paths at Kalbarri and the Bluff.