Now back home and resuming transmission.
It turned out to be a good trip, albeit not as remote as was planned/hoped.
The drive out of Perth was in steady rain, that extended a considerable way north. I was nervously watching the radar during the day as I was tenting at Cue and the N edge of the system was looking ominously close to there.
I don’t mind camping in the cold, but in the rain is a totally different matter.
I made a stop at Dalwallinu, at the NE fringe of the Wheatbelt, to mainly check out the information centre about wildflowers. But I also discovered some interesting bits in the centre and a museum in the town, so I spent a bit of time scoping those.
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There was this piece of cut and polished Marra Mamba iron ore, a banded iron ore, and a long way from its origin and where it is prolific in the Hamersley Range where I understand that it underpins some sort of mining industry. Quite why it was in a Wheatbelt museum, I do not know. But it was pretty, so I took a picture (through the glass).
The museum was quite interesting and worth a visit. A local early farmer had collected a considerable number of vehicles and implements and lodged them in the museum.
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A folding paratrooper’s bicycle from WW2.
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