Explore...

Read and rate Travel Journal Entries for Merredin, Western Australia, Australia

Aug 5, 2012 - Sunday @ Merredin

Leisure day in Merredin This is a lovely little town; the van park is the best we have been in in WA with huge sites and helpful staff. This morning saw us venture out to Nungarin to the Markets where we did buy some lollies of local manufacture a damned site cheaper than the lolly shop in Boulder, now I have some boiled sweets to offer all the little kiddies we meet enroute…. Also saw our first WA Wildflowers, too early in the season though for a spectacular display but the Wattle is out and it looks great. Assured there is a great display...

 Jump to full entry

Aug 4, 2012 - Some time with an old Boiler

Departed Kalgoorlie at a sensible hour this morning heading for Merredin. Stopped for an hour at Pump Station No.8. We had an appointment to see the setup here and so after finding it duly arrived, pressed the button and “Roy” our guide and raconteur/interlocutor came walking along from his lodgings with his Labrador. He unlocked and gave us the tour. No 8 Pump Station is the most easterly of the original eight steam powered pump stations, the last in the line pumping water from Mundaring Weir to Kalgoorlie. Today a No 8 remains almost...

 Jump to full entry

May 7, 2009 - Eucla to Merredin

Clearing cloud, warm 22o A little cool this morning, but it has been a glorious day, warm in the sun and pleasant in the shade. The park has the usual drive thru’s. Sites and the roadways are indistinguishable and not a great deal of room lengthwise, but OK. We could hear the sound of machinery into the early evening coming from the mines. We headed off about 8:10am in the direction of Kalgoorlie, not that we’re intending to stop here. The road is much narrower and undulating, so I decreased my speed to about 90kph to start with, gradually...

 Jump to full entry


Advertisement
OperationEyesight.com