We decided to visit the Stirling Range National Park to the north of Albany before heading east.
On the way I needed to dump the black water so I found a suitable side road and pulled up. As I tried to open the valve, the handle "came away in me hand". Here I was, out in the mulga, with a full tank and no way of opening the valve. As luck would have it, I had bought a spare valve in Perth to replace the handle on the grey water valve so I was able to drop the old valve (and the black water with it) and replace it with a new one. All done and showered in time for lunch!.
We found a comfortable camp site in the Moingup Springs Campground inside the park and settled in for the night.
We went off in the Little Motley to explore the park. The advice is to go east to west in the morning or west to east in the afternoon. As we have to go there and back, we set off to the west after breakfast. The park is much less exciting than one would expect from the tourist brochures. The mountains are impressive but the bush is pretty ordinary. The wild flowers are very varied but this is only evident when you walk on tracks off the road as they, like most Australian wild flowers, are very small and somewhat hidden from view. We decided to return via the "river road" which doesn't have a river nor much interesting scenery. We finished up going to Bluff Knoll which is a large rocky hill with a lookout on the slopes. There is a track to the top and we talked to some dedicated bushwalkers as they came back to the lookout.