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get outmore · Cape York Patroller Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 6176

I started this trip by visiting the Watheroo nat park north of Moora. My maps indicated there was a track that went passed a spring and water hole...........
The track started off promising but after a while pettered away to nothing

further investigation showed the park to be very sandy with low often burnt scrub. i tried a few other roads/tracks but my maps wernt up to date even with ozi explorer running i was confounded by barrier fences, unmarked farms and disapearing tracks.
not wanting to get bogged or trapped in the fading light i made camp

the next day it was off to Rothsey with a quick stop at Jingemia cave near Watheroo

Carnamah was the start of the trip

East tom Perenjori and onto the Rothsay road. First stop was the salmons campground.

Not needing to camp i pushed on and the next stop was the Rothsay Cemetary

Not far away was the mining centre Rothsay which has been mined a few times over the years.
Old mine managers house

open cut mine with portal at the bottom

i amused my self by getting to the bottom and trying to figure out what they were mining - thin flat lying quartz veins by the looks. I was also fascinated at the Gum trees growing at the bottom with no top soil in a very depleted environment .
Still coming from Kalgoorlie poking about old mining centres was a bit of old hat although there is plenty to see which others took advantage of

So it was on to the old Rothsay road which had the best flowers of the trip

Next stop was the forrest lookout in the Damperwah hills.
There is a walk trail to the top which gives you expansive views of the ancient region

I camped here overnight with bins and dunnys provided.
In the morning i continued on.
Its hard to actually be able to photograph the sheer kaladiscope of colour in the bush. Every bush is flowering and the flowers on the ground produce carpts of different colours. Every few hundred metrs is another page

Passed old sandlewood cutters hut

And then on to the old rabbit proof fence where i stopped at a camel soak which would have been used as a watering point for fence boundary riders

this guy just added to the colour

and back to perth just stopping at a lookout to check out a lake and breakaways

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Big Red · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:32 am Post subject:

there's certainly a lot of colour about ... great report. Cool

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Richard · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:58 am Post subject:

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.
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bockstar · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:00 am Post subject:

Yep, great stuff GOM. Thanks for sharing it with us.

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Oneputt · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:46 am Post subject:

Good stuff GOM. Enjoyed it Very Happy

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Flywest · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:55 pm Post subject: Neat trip GOM!

A day trip out of Perth?

Struth I never heard of most of those places!

What were they mining, do you know?

Gotta be real carefull bout these national parks - if old tracks have not been used, and have grown back over - then some overzealouse DEC/ CALM officer is likely to charge you with killing native flora if you drive over rehabilitated land / new growth - they are a funny bunch like that! Rolling Eyes

All the same neat photos!

Still curious what they were mining, quarts usually means Gold - well quartz & ironstone together does......so one wonders what they were digging!

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Harps · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject:

Nice work there, digger! WA is a nice old place!!

I look forward to getting out 4wding even more now!! If only i could get a little time off work!
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morts · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject:

Nice report. It's high on our list to get over to WA for the wildflower season one year.
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GV88 · Soft Roader Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 514

Good trip report and pics, thanks for sharing.