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Easter's coming up so asked around who wanted a camping ride.
Enough takers so decide to head north east to Elachbutting Rock,
70km past Muckinbudin near Bonnie Rock on Friday for two days
and check out some other rocks in the area.
Three sidecars and three solos and two cars meet at JCs block on
Thursday night ready for 9am start. Off to Meckering for fuel
then Kylie and Barbara head off on bitumen to Mucka as Barb lost
the brake pads on front right caliper, so clamped off brake hose
and all good.
The rest of us turned left and took the dirt all the way
through to Elachbutting Rock via the Rabbit Proof Fence North
Road. Pretty easy going as no traffic or patrol cars to worry
about.
Arrive at camp site to be greeted by Kylie and Barbara guarding
a top camp spot from other campers. Set up camp and settled down
for a quite beer and BBQ. Nice and quiet so had a sleep-in till
8 then a walk to check out rock. A very interesting place with
lots of different formations including a small wave, cave and
large chunks that appeared to have cracked off.
Warming up a bit so headed off to Beringbooding Rock 20 km up
the road. Very interesting place with the largest water
catchment in Australia running into a monster tank built in the
early 1930s.
Tried to hold the balancing rock up
but was hot work, about 33 degrees so had a skinny dip in the
large greenish namma hole with Barbara.
Two original wells still in good condition
near the carpark and old sheep dip still to be seen as well.
Camping spot not as nice as Elachbutting. Off to Bonnie Rock to
check out old town site, not much left except hall and pony
club. Down the road to another rock but not much there so decide
to take the old Mt Jackson Road back to camp for lunch.
This road was abandoned so we were following Clive’s GPS as the
track had pretty well disappeared. Came across another rock and
more wells, then had to bush bash the last 1km to get back on a
gravel road.
After lunch a few of us went and did a bit more exploring then
home for beer and nibbles and a quiet night with the new campers
on site making a racket with party lights. On closer inspection
by Barb they were all older than us for a change.
Pack up in the morning and some heading home, the last five of
us headed up the top road via Beacon to Wongan Hills and camped
at Dingo Rock. No one else there as no camping allowed so very
peaceful.
Next day headed back to Perth via Toodjay and home.
The weather was perfect. The scenery great. The company excellent. Well recommended to visit sometime. About 1080kms all up.