Leaving Lake Indoon we set off south against the wind again about 150 kms to the small town of Moora. We stopped in this small remote rest area surrounded by wheat fields and not a lot else.
We arrived in Moora lunchtime to it's wonderful, pretty, well run campground right next to the municipal swimming pool. Had fun reversing our large caravan into a tight berth but we got there in the end. The pool was extremely clean and 50 meters long so Steffi and I had a great swim whilst the kids tried dive bombing in the children's pool. Strange to find a 50 meter pool in a tiny town such as Moora with hardly anyone there on a hot Sunday afternoon!
The next day we carried on south to the Monastery of New Norcia which we visited 10 years ago on Steffi's 28th birthday. How time flies! We camped in the grounds away from power and water for $10.
Then we all went up to the monastery with it's dwindling number of monks who are down to about 10 and most are in there 70s. We took the 2 hour tour which ended in a very lively piano piece played by the youngest monk who was a bearded shy 38 year old who used to be a music teacher till he came here a few years ago.
Then in the evening we went up to the monastery hotel to it's bar full of scruffy locals for a drink and just to remind them where they were drinking, a bible was carefully placed at the end of the line of liquor bottles!
The girls had a dance to the lively jukebox in the empty games room. Certainly didn't feel like we were in part of the monastery when some rave music came on! I don't think the monks drink here.
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