This is a large area of bushland about 50 kms south from Newman. After lingering at the Mt Robinson Rest Area until it was getting too hot, about 11.00 a.m., we headed for Newman for ‘services’, dump point, water fill up and shopping.

We had a medium sort of club sandwhich drowned in chips at the Dome Cafe, thus proving that not all Dome Cafe’s have the same quality of food (depends on chef), then went to the Woollies for shopping.

The dump point and potable water tap are in the same little enclosed area, so though we filled up the tank we decided to buy some drinking water. We don’t drink from our tank anyway, so it’s just a matter of not filling up our drinking water jerry cans.

Hidden Gem is an informal camping area and it is very large indeed. We were able to have almost complete privacy here. It was very hot in the late afternoon and I was wishing we had gone to the roadhouse caravan park where we bought fuel. But, by bedtime (about 9.00 p.m. for me) it was cool enough to sleep comfortably.

This morning was about 19C, it felt cool, and we have been doing a bit of stuff and organising our meetup, now in Morawa, with Marie and Geoff.

Clearly, you needed to actually be there to see how lovely it was.