Showing posts with label Merredin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Merredin. Show all posts

Monday, 18 January 2016

In and around Merredin, Western Australia

We left Moora at 9.30am and went through New Norcia (previous post), arrived in Merredin at 3.30pm.  We bought some diesel before looking for a Caravan Park or a place to park the Caravan for the night.
The place we chose is [ here ] and is what I posted about that time.
 
Merredin is small town in the Central Wheatbelt of Western Australia, about halfway between Perth and Kalgoorlie.
The first European explorer into the area was the Surveyor General J. S. Roe, who travelled through the region in 1836 but was not impressed by its dryness and the low rainfall.
The town became first known as a stopover on the way to the Goldfields of Kalgoorlie.
 

Australian Gumnuts which we saw along the way.


It was about this area where we began to see water pipes which carry water from Perth to Kalgoorlie.



The Merredin District Hall.


Parrots at sunset. Might have to enlarge the photo.


Spent the night here at a Free Park, and caught the sun as it was setting on the gumtrees.


The scenery was the same as the photo all the way to Kalgoorlie.


Merredin on the right of the map.

Monday, 7 September 2015

A few things we appreciate

Travelling great distances in a day it's wonderful to see pretty things.

At Merredin, WA I took the photo below of a typical Australian Gumtree in these neck of the woods with the sun setting.

Further down the road we came across the Wattle flowering, then a lot further on the Canola growing in the paddock.  When you see Canola you know you are getting towards civilization, well at least for awhile.