Besides doing more intense cleaning and minor repairs, one day we all drove to New Norcia, a monastic community founded in 1846 by a small band of Benedictine monks who came from Spain to establish a mission for the aboriginals. Despite being on a busy highway and obviously a tourist drawcard it had an air of peace and tranquility, in fact the motto of the monks is 'Pax' meaning peace.
There is a monastery surrounded by extraordinarily grand buildngs including a hotel, education centres,
an old convent, hostels, guest houses, a museum, church and chapel, art gallery, a gift shop and a bakery which used olives grown on site in some of the loaves of bread offered for sale.
We opted to walk around the area following a map and poked around in general, the cameras got a good workout once again.
After several days checking out Moora and surrounds the time had arrived for Kevin and Carolyn to part with us and travel to Perth and be involved with some family doings, and as John and I had more projects to do and Moora being a lovely little place we are still here.
One evening I lost a filling from a tooth, the local dentist only came 1 day per week and we were advised there was a dentist at Bindoon 95 klms down the Great Northern Highway and we made use of our journey to observe the beautiful Salmon Gums lining the highway.
Of course the weather was dry after the day of rain and we have now completed more wildflower tours of this area and checked out more of this cute little town.
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