Judy & Brian Tour Oz

Hyden WA March 18, 2015 Yes, well it's a day late, but hey, what can you do? Just north, about 17km, from Hyden and the Wave Rock, is another bunch of rocks called The Humps. at the Humps, there are two points of interest, Mulkas cave and the Gnamma holes. Mulka's cave is interesting in that the Aboriginal story would have us believe that in the dream time, two people married 'wrong way', i.e. not in the right skin group and their baby, Mulka was a half-witted, cross-eyed giant. Mulka ran away and hid in this cave, which was OK, but when he started eating babies the tribe tracked him down and beat him to death. So, don't go marrying out of the right skin group or else. Oh, and if you're a child and your ma says to stay near the camp, do so, or you will get et by a hideous giant. Anyhow, its a cave, more of a big rock with a hollow under it, in which the ceiling has a few hand prints painted. Nothing else, apart from graffiti, just hands. Mulka's c...

Hayden WA April 17, 2015 (Wave Rock to be precise) Didn't take too much to tear us away from Esperance, even though the sky was a cloudless clear blue and it looked like it was going to be a cracker of a day. We headed west toward Albany, but turned of at Ravensthorpe after a coffee and raisin toast. Mind you, they had to duck out the side door and run up to the next shop to get some raisin bread to make the toast, but we didn't care, we were just sitting in the lovely sunshine and watching all the road trains rumble by. They are very big on the double and triple trucks on this road, lots of ore and gypsum and grains being taken to railheads and ports for shipping. It’s interesting that they dont appear to have set trucks for set places, each truck seems to go wherever it thinks the best loading is to be had. Mind you, that might be a 200k round trip for nothing if the silo has cut-out or the mine has stopped mining. The minor road up from Ravensthorpe, through Lake ...