-- From Kalgoorlie to Perth

On Monday 4, 2010,I left Kalgoorlie around 11 a.m. after having made my shopping. I crossed Coolgardie at midday, the museum was closed, lunch time! I establish my bivouac at Boorabbin Rest Area. The weather was been overcast and very heavy, the temperature inside the body was 40°C.

In this Tuesday January 05, 2010, on a garvel road, Emu Fence Road towards Hyden, I again crossed the Wheat Belt whose farmed surfaces were of vast dimension. More in the south that the part visited before the harvest was still under progress. Thus I saw enormous machinery, as in Beauce in France. I stopped to look at the wheat fields whose sowings appeared not very dense and wheat of small size with short ears. At a caravan park I got information to know the output per hectare, alas the questioned person could not answer me.

Little before Hyden I visited Mulka's Cave supplied with a aboriginal legend of a giant with crossed eyes born from the reports of a princess with a basic condition man. This giant left imprints of his hands on the walls of the cave which was used as his refuge. They are negative or stencil hands, as in the theories of  de Lumley. It is at the very least strange that prehistoric man all over the world had the idea to paint hands on the wall of the caves being used as habitat. Great prehistoric migrations conveyed a cultural inheritance.

At the entry of Hyden the extraordinary granite cliff, Wave Rock, 15 metres high and 110 metres long was cut by the weathering and water erosion, see the gallery of pictures. At the top of other strange rocks were cut in the shape of ball, watermelon, then dug by erosion. They are called Tafone, Italian word, for a window.

While walking  I became acquainted with an inhabitant of the spot. I bivouacked at the local caravan park.

Kulin

The day had badly started. I was returned to try to take new pictures of Wave Rock, always badly enlightened nature had not thought of the photo hobbyists. Back to the campground around 7.30 am a hot and violent wind rose sweeping the plain. On the road towards Perth I decided to make a detour to see the Tin Horse Hwy which leads to Kulin. The city was since 1870 the capital of the production of sandalwood exported by the Fremantle's port. At the end of the lease in 1910 settlers took up land around the salted lake Jilikin to develop the culture of the wheat which became Wheat Belt. Farmers created an animation along the road from east to west towards Kulin putting at the honour, the horse, means of transport and  of labour, before the advent of the spark-ignition engine. A competition developed between farmers by using cans of 200 litres and old scrap material. The result is worthy of the Facteur Cheval (!) and of the dwarves of garden. I had frankly fun by stopping to take pictures of them, there are more than thirty.

It was not my only discovery. Far away a world record the longest queue of dogs having never existed awaited me. Kulin is worth the detour, it was hilarious. Farmers, after having cut down trees to increase fields and to make profitable enormous means of production, recreate hedges of trees to cut wind, to retain water and to avoid salination of land. I bivouacked in Brookton

On Thursday 07, I left Brookton to return to Perth to go to Advantage Tyres to install four new tyres, Michelin 14.00R20XZL. I arrived around 11 a.m. and I left there around 3 p.m. to go again to the Central Caravan Park until Monday January 11. For balancing the wheels I had Equal product put inside as well as AirX valves. These products are marketed by IMI.

The following day I had an appointment at AV Truck Services, MAN's dealer, for a routine servicing of my truck as well as a complete revision before continuing my trip on gravel roads. It had much work to do, I went back there on Monday 11 after the control of my truck by the MVR. Indeed it was necessary to change the cabin suspension rubbers as well as the fitting of right fixing, the rear pins clevis of the front spring leaves and two engine fixing rubbers.

On Sunday January 10, I studied a road plan from Perth to Adelaide where I wished to arrive on February 15.

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