A rough road to Peak Charles

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We have free-camped for three nights and now we’re parked up in Esperance in the south-east of Western Australia. As we have driven across the Nullarbor Plain from the eastern states, we have been out of range so have had no telephone and no internet. Now we’re busy powering up our camera batteries, etc. We had an interesting day yesterday. We planned to head west from the main highway to get to Peak Charles [651 metres (2,136 ft)] which is the third highest monolith in Australia, after Mount Augustus and Uluru. However we turned off too early onto a VERY rough track. We battled on for some distance then parked the caravan by a salt lake and went on in the car. When we opened the caravan door we were faced with quite a mess. All the herb bottles had jumped out of their racks and one had broken. Three small jars in the fridge-door compartment had all managed to unscrew their lids which were sitting in the shelves nowhere near their respective bottles and the capers had upended themselves in the shelf. The fire extinguisher had detached itself from its fastening but luckily hadn’t turned itself on. However we drove on to Peak Charles and cleaned up the mess when we got back. We spent a very pleasant evening by the salt lake. This morning we went on very slowly to the road we should have taken in the first place. But all is well now.