Quite a cold night however we didn’t have any rain. We learnt that west of Katanning the rain fall was far less than on the SW of WA.
Lake Grace is a wheatbelt town with a population of about 650 people and has a very large commercial centre.It got its name form the two large interconnected north and south salt lakes 8 km west of the town making up the lake system and is 50.5km long and up to 7.25km wide. www.lakegrace.wa.gov.
As we drove on we passed some of the wheat silos and the many acres of wheat fields along with the canola. We were heading for Hyden and the Wave rock which is located near by.
Wave rock is a very popular tourist site with a caravan park and resort there to cater for the many visitors that it attracts. We were only going to stop long enough to have our lunch and walk over the top and around the rock which in fact took us a good couple of hours by the time we had finished.
Wave rock is 15 metres high and 110 metres long and its rounded like shape has been caused by weathering and water erosion which has undercut the base and left a rounded overhang.
Here is Hippos Yawn
Hippos Yawn consists of an unusually shaped granite tor that was formally part of the crop.This is second most visited site and is connected by a walking track from Wave rock with interpretive sites located along the route explaining about the landscape.
We were lucky that the rain had held off whilst we had been out walking on the rock, however it was a bit cooler than we had expected.
Time to make tracks for Ravensthorpe about 180 km SE where we were stopping for the night. It just started to rain very lightly as we set off along some very long straight roads with very few cars travelling along it, so we had a very good run except for some minor road works where we had some speed restrictions.
The country side was planted with fields of wheat, barley, oats and canola, as we were still passing through the wheatbelt, however here the dams were not as full and it all looked much drier than where we had being driving through a few days before when we were further west.
No comments:
Post a Comment