Heroes of Circumstance

Well, here it is. A Saturday morning in Karratha. I have officially completed all my university work for my degree. Our original plan was that we were going to be planning our 5500km journey back to Kingaroy, across northern Australia on the onset of Summer. But as you may well be accustomed to by now, these plans have changed.

And this is the reason I am writing a blog post on a Saturday morning rather than being hard at study. Not only have the plans been changed they have evaporated into something greater. Karratha has transformed into our final destination…at least for the next few years.

Caleb has received a permanent job with Rio Tinto here in Karratha, so we have decided to tough out the hot, cyclone prone summers, and enjoy the marvellous weather Karratha has to offer the rest of the year for a little while. I too have just achieved employment in town upon finishing my degree.  We have found ourselves among some terrific people, and despite the fact that most of them will move on eventually, as will we, as is the nature of the town, the sense of community here is quite strong. We have seen some remarkable answers to prayer while being here in Karratha and feel this is where God wants us to settle for a while.

So here we are, living in a caravan park in Karratha, with our 12ft Jayco Sprite chained down in preparation for cyclone season that officially starts in November. The temperature during the day is regularly hitting 37 or 38 degrees and is only climbing.

This of course does not spell the end of our adventures, but it is the end of our nomadic travels around this great country for now. I guess that’s why it has taken me so long to announce the end officially on our blog – it’s kind of hard to believe it’s over. Of course, we are still planning a Tasmania trip sometime in the future, and there have been whispers of rumours of an Asian backpacking adventure in the mid to far off future, and there is the ever present threat of holidays at Ningaloo reef, further adventures in Karijini and even Broome. And as many of you may be excited about, we are still heading home for Christmas. But our Australian adventure of towing a 12ft caravan around the country, working in different places for a few months has come to an end. What a terrific ride it has been, and even though it has somewhat been cut short, I have no doubt great things will come from us staying here in Karratha. Thank you for sharing this adventure with us through our blog. I hope you have enjoyed reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it.