We have had an epic touring day. Our guide, Kea, picked us up at 7am and we didn’t get home until after 8pm. So where did we go? Well, we and six others travelled around 350km east of Perth to Wave Rock and Hippos Mouth at Hyden.
Our first stop this morning was at the historic town of York where we had about half an hour to have a wander around the streets. This quaint little town is on the banks of the Avon River that you may recall we drove over a few weeks ago when we stayed at Toodyay. At York we walked down to the Avon river and crossed it on the famous swing bridge that I can assure you is not for the faint hearted.
Our drive takes us through the heart of the wheat belt with wheat crops and canola crops sitting side by side in paddocks that stretch for miles in both directions. This area is also grazed by sheep, thousands of sheep! They are mostly merino with some of the sheep just off shears and others with full fleece. The sheep are in good condition so I have no doubt there is also a market for fat lamb. One thing we noticed today is that even though the sheep are in large paddocks they bunch up in a tight mob. We saw Alpacas running with one mob so we think that there must be quite a few dingos/wild dogs in the area.
We take a short break at Corrigin to visit a cemetery for “man’s best friend”. This dog cemetery is a tribute to all the working dogs that have now taken their place in doggie heaven.
Our lunch stop is at Hyden Bakery & Cafe where we just have to sit down to a home made pie. I went for the plain mince and Philip had the Pepper Pie. We had a warning pot of tea to wash it down followed by custard slice for me and Passionfruit cheesecake for Philip.
From Hyden it is just four kilometres to Wave Rock. It is Saturday so there are lots of people here but that in no way detracts from this magnificent granite rock that has been formed by wind and water. The colours of the granite are stunning and I’m so pleased we made the trip to see this natural wonder. Many people told us it wasn’t worth the drive but I beg to differ.
After we had climbed to the top of Wave Rock to take in the wonderful views we all made our way back to the mini bus for the short drive to Hippos Mouth. This is also awesome and if you are very adventurous you can climb right into the back of the rock and crawl through to a cave. We are not adventurous! Our tour guide, Kea, took a nice group photo of us.
On our return trip we stopped at the Kondinin Salt Lake that can be a mint green colour at certain times but unfortunately today was overcast and showery so all I could photograph where the statues.
And our very last comfort stop was at the little country town of Brookton. For such a small township it was absolutely gorgeous with all its flowering fruit trees lining the street.
As I mentioned, it was a very long day and I am now looking forward to a sleep in tomorrow morning before our Swan River Lunch Cruise. The weather is predicted to be showery but I'm hoping the BOM is wrong for once.....
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