Day 8 Menzies & beyond
30.09.2018 - 30.09.2018
Can't leave Menzies without a few facts. From a peak of thousands in gold rush days the town now boasts about 100, with maybe another couple of hundred in the shire, which stretches to the NT border!
Headed off unusually early for us by 8am. Thought we would fuel & stock up at Kalgoorlie. Getting fuel was too easy. But Busselton has it all over Kalgoorlie, as supermarkets at Kalgoorlie are closed on Sundays. We have enough stock so we just continued our journey as campers do but not until Deborah had visited the bakery to collect a lamington & carrot cake for Ian. The serving portions were enough for mornos & afternoon tea.
Morning tea stop was Coolgardie. Another mining town which started in the around 1892, and fizzled out by the first world war. In its heyday it had 15,000 residents, plus 10,000 in the surrounding area, 23 pubs, 3 breweries and a stock exchange.
Afternoon tea stop today, Sunday was at Ghoorli pump station.
This old steam driven station is obviously no longer operational & fenced off due to asbestos.
We were just playing it by ear & researched a few possible destinations for tonight. We had a look at Burracoppin rest area. It was too close to the highway, but the positive was it was close to the tavern. Decided that we could go to the Merredan Peak Rock was not to far down the road. This is our stop for the night. Tonight we have a full house, about 18 vans/motorhomes.
Thought climb up the rock again, and it's not all about flowers. Another kind of wreath flower...
Here are some pictures from today, please enjoy.
And a couple as the sun sets over Merredin Peak.
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