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Day 17 of the road trip was spent in Fremantle. Gorgeous old buildings, decent breweries, and great street art. #RoadTrip

Day 18 of the road trip saw us heading out of Perth for a trip around South West WA. Mandurah is a lot bigger than I imagined ( 100,000 people ), Bunbury is also large and has some great public art. #RoadTrip

Good Morning #Canada
If your next #RoadTrip takes you to today's #BigStuffInSmallTowns destination, your GPS might get confused. The only border city in Canada is Lloydminster, which straddles the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. This bi-provincial city is recognized for being the only one of its kind in Canada, with its unique situation reflected in its single municipal administration, which operates under a special charter approved by both provinces. And on the dividing line between the Lloydminsters are 4 of the largest border markers on the planet. Each one is 100 feet high and they stand on the boundary for the third and fourth meridian. Erected in 1994, each marker represents an important theme: oil and gas, the Barr Colonists, agriculture and First Nations & Métis.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Borderlands
https://youtu.be/kaDRDtn1-3w?si=cp99_Afi5otl70Os

Day 16 of the road trip included lunch with an old mate plus a good look around Leederville in Perth. Some great examples of street art and an excellent pub. #RoadTrip

Day 12 of the road trip took me from Esperance to Hyden, WA. As an old Aggie I loved travelling through tens of thousands of hectares of canola and wheat crops. Found this great bit of silo art by Jerome Davenport in Varley. #RoadTrip #SiloArt

Impressionen eines Roadtrips.
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Free stops for self contained RVs are a controversial topic in WA. Some shires have removed stops while others have added facilities. Last night I stopped in the free camp in Norseman which is gaining a good reputation among RVers. About 20 vans there last night.#RoadTrip

Good Morning #Canada
Todays edition of #BigStuffInSmallTowns involves a kinda boring object with an interesting story behind its installation. The tall tale of a man trading a paperclip for a house, and that may be oversimplified, takes us to Kipling Saskatchewan, the home of the Guinness World Record "World's Largest Paper Clip." The paperclip was unveiled on July 12, 2007 and is made of 3043 lbs of solid steel. It is 15 ft. 2 inches tall and 3 ft. 3 inches wide; 45 ft. 6.75 inches long.
Thank you to @… for the article that prompted this post.
#CanadaIsAwesome #RoadTrip
https://www.ctvnews.ca/regina/article/on-video-the-tale-of-the-red-paperclip-trade-and-kipling-sask/

To me, having three time zones in Australia smacks of a "too many beers at the staff Christmas party" ideas. So Australian Western Time is an hour and a half behind Australian Central time. Some joker then decides to split the difference and create Australia Central Western Time. #RoadTrip

Day eight of my road trip and a driving day from Nullabor Roadhouse, SA to Cocklebiddy Roadhouse, WA. Had to go through the quarantine search at the border. Great sunrise over the Nullabor weather station. #RoadTrip

Day 7, and the road trip takes me from Ceduna to Nullarbor Roadhouse. Got a great view of the bight, the cliffs and the sand dunes,as well as about a dozen Southern Right Whales, most with calves, just off the cliffs. #RoadTrip

One of the things about long road trips is the need for housekeeping. Day six was spent in Ceduna, getting laundry done, restocking the pantry, sweeping out the van and filling gas bottles. Ceduna has a good bakery and a pub on the foreshore. #RoadTrip

Good Morning #Canada
So you're planning a weekend #RoadTrip and maybe thinking about something exciting like.... mushroom hunting. Well, Vilna, Alberta, is an addition to the #BigStuffInSmallTowns list because of a giant mushroom that is greater than 3 metres in height. A mushroom statue may not make a lot of sense in some parts of the world, but in Vilna, mushroom hunting has been a tradition since the early Ukrainian settlers arrived in the early 1900's.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.travelalberta.com/listings/worlds-largest-mushrooms-5627

Road trip day 4 - Port Augusta to Port Lincoln. I haven't been to the Eyre Peninsula before. Interesting rural landscape with farms backing onto sand dunes on Spencer Gulf. Gusts at 50 kph so not great for driving. #RoadTrip

Random road trip thoughts. Diesel is my biggest expense while road tripping. I use Petrol Spy to find the cheapest anywhere I need to fill up. What fascinates me is the difference between two servos 500m apart can be 25c a litre. How does the more expensive one attract custom? #RoadTrip

Day 3 of the east-west road trip. Catching up with family overnight, then on to Port Augusta through 40 kph winds. Some parts of Port Augusta are very pretty while others are very raw. #RoadTrip

Starting my longest road trip this year - heading east-west. First day to Dimboola, Vic with a detour to Arkoona to photograph some silo art by SMUG #RoadTrip

Day two of my east-west road trip and got up early in a brisk minus 2C to get some shots of Pink Lake, about 10km from Jimboomba. Great reflections before the sunrise burnt the mist off. #RoadTrip

Happy Wattle Day! In this case Acacia rossei somewhere west of Kalgoorlie WA #RoadTrip

Random road trip thoughts. I like staying in free RV spots. Since the camper is fully self contained the main purpose I have for caravan parks is when I need to do laundry or have a full sized shower. The photo shows last night's camp in Merredin, about a dozen vans an caravans on site. #RoadTrip

Day 31 of the road trip and after dropping the copilot at the airport, headed east to the WA wheatbelt. What's more iconic than painted silos? #RoadTrip

Day 29 of the road trip and what else do you find on Rottenest Island but a baby quokka. Of course the cycling, the lighthouse and the fabulous bays were pretty good as well #RoadTrip

Good Morning #Canada
It was pointed out to me that I rarely, if ever, post anything about #NewBrunswick. It's not my fault that the eastern province is less exciting than Saskatoon, but today, we fix that omission. Here's an article on the 10 best towns and cities to visit in the land of Purple Violets and Black-capped Chickadees. Just in time for #RoadTrip season. Look for the next New Brunswick post in 26-ish months.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.todocanada.ca/10-small-towns-and-cities-to-add-to-your-new-brunswick-itinerary/

Day 21 of the road trip was a big day sightseeing around the Cape Leeuwin area. The Cape is the south western most tip of Australia and where the Indian Ocean meets the Southern Ocean. Wild seas, wild winds but a great day. #RoadTrip

Day 19 of the road trip was spent is the pretty coastal town of Busselton. Best known for its jetty, at 1.841km it's the longest timber-piered jetty in the southern hemisphere. Made for a great walk out and back. #RoadTrip

Good Morning #Canada
In the Ojibwe culture, a dreamcatcher is made with willow hoop, on which is woven a net or web and decorated with sacred items such as feathers or beads. Traditionally, dreamcatchers are hung over a cradle or bed as protection during sleep as Native Americans believed that at night the air was filled with dreams, both good and bad. Today, based on current events, we need numerous and bigger #Dreamcatchers to filter out the crap. I'm fortunate that the world's largest dreamcatcher, measuring 12.93 metres (over 42 feet) in diameter, is in my backyard, only 45 minutes north of where I live. It was created by Dale (Bobbie) Williams and located in Rama First Nation, Ontario, Canada, near Orillia. Williams was inspired to create it after learning the Guinness World Record holder for a dreamcatcher was in Europe and he felt it didn't meet the traditional definition. I think it had sausages hanging from it.
#CanadaIsAwesome #BigStuffInSmallTowns #RoadTrip
https://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/worlds-largest-dream-catcher-aims-to-provide-powerful-energy-in-rama-8721002

Good Morning #Canada
For over 20 years, this 17-meter tall musical instrument has struck a chord with visitors to Sydney Nova Scotia. This installment of #BigStuffInSmallTowns showcases the biggest fiddle in the world and is a must stop selfie spot for cruise ship passengers as they disembark at the harbourfront. But Sydney has a reason to fret about their fiddle dominance as the original artists has been asked by two other towns to create an even bigger version to take the world title.
#CanadaIsAwesome #BigFiddle #RoadTrip
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/big-fiddle-celebrates-10th-anniversary-on-sydney-waterfront-1.3076554