One question I was asked when I was doing this road trip was why I didn’t stay longer than a day in each of my stops, and the thing is that I just didn’t know what to do with my time. This trip I had a goal in mind and that’s what I wanted to do, to journey across and see the things in between.

So I didn’t feel like I wanted to remain in Mount Barker for longer than a day. In retrospect, perhaps I should have, but I wanted to explore the road and the journey in between this first time.

Today I ventured the relatively short distance of 355 kilometres.

Today was a day I made my way through forests and encountered traffic for the first time in several days.

But first it poured down with rain.

So much so I had to pull off the road.
I can cope with driving in rain, and any other situation more or less. But I also know my limits and when I can see less than a metre in front of my car and the speed limit is 110 and there are vehicles nearby I know what I want to do and that’s get out of the situation and let the rain pass.

It did give me a moment, in fact several moments as I needed to pull off their road (into rest areas, I wasn’t just pulling off the road randomly) it gave me moments of pause to take in the forest that I was driving through.

Today was also the day I encountered traffic for the first time since really my first day when I drove through Melbourne, as I’d bypassed Adelaide on the way through.
What surprised me about Perth’s highway system is the amount of traffic lights on them, or rather the freeways that suddenly become highways with traffic lights on them. I would presume it’s just a case of unexpected traffic and population growth.
There were also a surprising, though not unexpected amount of trucks on the road network near Perth.

Today I also took absolutely no photos.