A bit late making camp yesterday arvo and ended up in a farm driveway.
Looked like it doesn’t get used, so we made use of it for the night, Tom has the most important job of setting up the out house each evening. We are only about 30 klms from New Norcia. Only 6 degrees here, and the campfire didn’t have much effect on the chilly breeze. We packed up and left by nine.
All our trips over West, we haven’t been to see the Historical town of New Norcia. Stopped for a view of the town on the way in.
Then gathered with a dozen or so others and walked the 2 hr tour of town.
Well worth doing. The guided tour took us through all the old buildings, from the early 18oos.
Magnificent churches, collages, dormitories.
A fully self sufficient community, including flour mill and bakery, still working till 2008. A great display of farm machinery as well.
It’s all owned and run by the monks. The bakery has now closed, but they still have scones and specialty loaves of bread for sale at the entrance building. So we didn’t come away empty handed. We were told they keep the place going by now offering it for school camps, and the like.
Most of the live ins are practicing monks. Stopping work to pray 7 times a day. Ok, been there done that, interesting ,with beautiful buildings, but could not help thinking of the life the young children, would of had living in the orphanage.
I don’t need to go back again.
Next it was a late lunch at the servo, also run by the church, yes they have it all sewn up.
Did a couple more hours on back tracks heading east before making camp for the night. It’s time we started heading back North.
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