Madura Pass WA
Madura Pass WA May 6, 2015 Up with the sparrows this morning and on the road at 7:04 heading for places far away to the east. First stop was Norseman about 185km away, which we reached easily enough, save for the large rock thrown up by a passing road train just south of Kambalda. Inspection at Norseman showed two deep gouges just on the edge of the window, a wonder it didn't come right on through and take my head off. We stopped for a while, had a coffee and some toast before tackling the next 185km section to Balladonia (I swear they make these names up in WA), where we stopped and had a nice cup of tea and some sandwiches. I relaxed watching the trucks roll on by; they really are only a problem if you can catch up to them. After lunch another 185 odd stretch to Caiguna,,another roadhouse only kind of place, but we were slowed down by a 30km stretch of road marked ‘Roadworks - 80kph’. The fact of the matter was that for exactly 1.7 kilometres there was one lane and th...