Week 6 of full-time travel - Nyabing to… Nyabing?!?!

Monday was a Public Holiday in WA for Labour Day and most places were closed. We went for a drive around the area and ended up in the Nyabing Community Hub for the evening. Again, we were made to feel very welcome and were having a lovely quiet evening, talking to Amy (barmaid on a working holiday from Hull!) and Parrot (local guy who has lived in Nyabing forever and works for the Shire) when the CEO of the local Shire (Adam) came in with a drill in his hands. Apparently, the only local fuel pump had gone offline and the fuel company had advised that the Shire had a key to get to the reset button. The key could not be found, so Adam decided he would drill out the lock and deal with the missing key the next day, when everyone was back at work!

Adam stayed on to chat and have a few drinks with us. He and Parrot were telling us that there was a car show planned for the next Saturday and that we should come back to town - they even told us that the caravan park would be free for the Friday and Saturday nights. We told Adam that we hadn’t been able to pay for staying at the caravan park last night and tonight, with the Shire offices being closed, but we would pop in and pay the next morning. 

While chatting, Adam asked what we did for work and Steve told him that he had been a plumber/gas fitter - well, cue the guys trying to talk us into staying long-term and offering Steve a job with the Shire! Steve politely declined and explained that we’re only a few weeks into our travels, and still had so much more of the country to see.

The next morning we popped into th Shire office to pay our camping fees and were again asked if we would consider coming back for the car show the next weekend. We said we’d think about it and then were off on our way to our next location.

We arrived at Kukerin less than 45 minutes later and picked a spot at the town caravan park.

6352 is the Post Code for Kukerin

Kukerin is not a big town, but it was the ideal location to take a trip out to Lake Grace.

 

The lakes at Lake Grace seem to go on forever

We ended up stying a few nights at Kukerin, but decided to go back to Nyabing for the car show (and free camping!)

We got parked up at Nyabing and strolled over to the Community Hub. Parrot and Amy were both there and were both happy to see us back in town. We didn’t stay too late at the Hub because we knew the next day would be a long one!

The car show was in full-swing by the time we walked down to the main street. There was not a cloud in the sky and the temperature was perfect. There were lot of cars and even more people.

Just a few of the cars on display…

 

The Shire had arranged for the cars to compete in a Short-Stop Drag Race knockout competition. The main car park had been closed down and start and stop lines painted. We were stood right by the side of the area - First to go were the street cars and classics. Then the souped-up muscle cars had a go…

There was so much tyre smoke that the final had to be run three times, because the adjudicators couldn’t see who won! 

After so much excitement, we had a drink or two at the Hub, and chatted again to Amy and Parrot. Adam called in and was pleased to see that we’d come back again for the event.

We didn’t stay out too late, but had a sneaky go on the brand  new jumping pillow at the kid’s playground, on the way back to the caravan (no limbs were broken!!!)