It is situated at the small town of Hiden where we were inundated with flies. Many of the locals seem to wear netting dropping down from their hats as protection. Luckily I had a supermarket flyer in my pocket and we used it fanatically to try and wave them away.
The Wave looks far better in the photos than real life and we thought it was not worth the long drive.
We then made a decision to abandon our idea of going down to Albany. The distance and heat were beginning to tell. Another point is that there are few places to stop and stay for the night. We could see why they use caravans and camper vans. We used caravan parks for our stays 80% of the time.
We then went to Wagin as I blogged a few days ago before heading along the Tin Horse Highway. Some pictures of this as well as a some salt lakes we passed are below.
At Perth we stopped on the outskirts for 4 days and traveled in by bus each day where one day we visited Kings Park where we went over the treetop bridge.
Some final thoughts: We thought the roads were great. You could easily drive at 140K (limit 110) but with the tremendous distances allied to the boring scenery, heat and little traffic you easily got bored.We had no problem cashing cheques at the NAB but would have preferred to have a card - which we have tried to get for about 5 years, even going into the NAB the last time we were in Sydney. They are hopeless.
The car was good except for the cigarette smell and that we had to pay by credit card as they wouldn't accept cash.
While we were in Perth they were advertising that shops would be allowed to open on weekdays until 9 PM from Noverber. Also it seems most Sunday trading is limited to the city centre.
Then it was back to cold Wellington.
