Wildflower Holiday began in earnest today with a 600 km drive to the Northern goldfields. Started early and it was not long before we began to notice the array of colours on the side of the road. The purple Tall Mulla Mulla were the first flowers to gain our interest. Then we saw a spectacular orange Grevillea so we had to stop to take a photo or two or three or more!!!! Once you started to look, there was such a variety of wildflowers which tended to cluster together. When they did, it was this kaleidoscope of colour.
At Menzies, we detoured 51km to Lake Ballard to see the “Inside Australia”, a unique world-renowned attraction by British sculptor, Antony Gormley. He has 51 sculptures spread across Lake Ballard. It is a dry salt bed but yesterday it rained!!!! The lake was a quagmire!! Each step you took, made you another few inches taller. The mud stuck like glue!!!! Jo saw a couple then headed back while I managed to see half a dozen of the sculptures and then struggled back to shore. Took ½ hour to clean our shoes.
At Menzies there was sign be careful of Wedgetailed eagles so I was waiting in anticipation all day. We saw several but they were riding the thermals and not coming down to earth.
We visited several of the old mining towns including Kookynie, Leonora, and Gwalia. At Kookynie, we stopped at the Grand Hotel for a beer. Wasn’t so grand today as yesterday, it lost a side verandah and the verandah roof in the same gale that hit Kalgoorlie. Gwalia is the site of the Sons of Gwalia Gold mine and is now basically a Historical site but the mine is working again. Hoover House, now a guest house but was originally built as the home for Herbert Hoover who was later to become 31st president of the USA. Arrived back in Kalgoorlie about 6.30PM.
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