Coolgardie Day Festival
Unwittingly, we drove into Coolgardie as the Coolgardie Day festival was in full swing. The main street (Great Eastern Highway) was closed for the length of the town.
Detour, detour, detour. One way to get to see parts of Coolgardie never previously visited.
Burra Rock
We took Hunt Street south out of town, heading to Burra Rock.
Cave Hill
The track from Burra Rock south to Cave Hill is easy enough though 16 kilometres from Cave Hill there are a couple of turns that tighten on the drive through them and one of the bends is reverse camber.
At Cave Hill we visited the summit, the wave, the cave and the dams.
From the summit we walked around to the southern side of the hill to the ‘wave’. The long wave has two eroded holes in its face, known as tafoni.
The Cave at Cave Hill
The cave/tafone at Cave Hill is supposedly unsafe and it is imminent danger of collapse. Imminent in manmade terms is just the Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) covering their collective bureaucratic backside. Imminent in geological terms could be a few million years.
The Dams at Cave Hill
From the cave we walked over to the dams.
Feral Donkeys
There was plenty of evidence of feral donkeys in the vicinity of the dams.
The track from Cave Hill to the Victoria Rock Road had recently been wet and, while not a challenge, it was interesting and required one’s undivided attention.
Seldom Used Track to Yerdanie
The drive back to the Great Eastern Highway was on a track that no-one in the group had been on before. It showed as an indistinct line on Google Earth and we were not sure that it would communicate with Yerdanie. As it turned out it had clearly not been driven for many years but it was passable and was a great drive requiring plenty of concentration. One of the reasons we do these trips.
Woolgangie
Hunt considered Woolgangie one his best water supplies.
Hermit’s Hut
The ‘hermit’s hut’ near Boorabbin is always worth a visit.
[In 2022 a government agency pushed through a track close to this oddity of the Australian bush – possibly the Dept of Agriculture to allow ease of access for the local dogger – the result of which was destruction of the Hermit’s Hut.]
The Road Trip ended at Boorabbin.
© Kim Epton 2019-2024
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