One night to go before I hit the road on my way to Parnngurr Community (formerly Cotton Creek). For those of you who don’t know, Parnngurr is a community of Martu people with a tiny school comprised of three teachers (well 2 really) and 45 children (I will be one of those staff members). The trip up will be broken down into 2 nights. First stop will be Mount Magnet – maybe not such a magnet of a place, we’ll see, and a short 600kms from Perth, then the second night will be spent in Newman, a further 600kms from Mount Magnet. On Tuesday we (me, the principal and his wife) will go en convoy from Newman into Parnngurr along 370kms of dirt road. To prepare for such a trip one has to get one’s head around BULK BUYING. There’ll be no ‘quick popping to the shops’, more like stock up for at least a month which requires quite a different mind set and takes a bit of organising – enter BIG BESSIE and her beautiful 40L Engel fridge complete with drop-down fridge slide! Very posh. So my beautiful Bonnie Prince Charlie is obviously well set for the trip – slight difference in provisions mind you! The fridge is full of Charlie food whilst I’ve been relegated to a packet of chocolate, jar of coffee beans and snack pack of cheese and crackers. Oh don’t worry – I’ve packed the coffee grinder!
On the road with my dog 