Another great Goldfields track "Discovered"
Submitted: Tuesday, Nov 08, 2005 at 17:12
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Member - Davoe (Widgiemooltha)
The Starting point of this track Is North east of Kalgoorlie along the
Coolgardie north Road about 25k past
Rowles Lagoon. The track heads off to the West and meanders in A South Westerly Direction. Much of the country is Unburnt with immpressive stands of salmon Gums Gimlets and Grifths gumms with a few blackbutts as
well. As it heads down it passes
Granite outcrops such as Coonmine
rock,
Turtadine rock Pilaming
rock as wellas turnoffs to other rocks with there associated historic wells and
Gnamma holes. Alot of the Bushes were flowering with hakeas, Myrtels and Kunzeas adding some colour. The track then passes into yellow sandplains which for some reason are nearly allways burnt out - this is no exception. After crossing the haul road to the Mt Walton radioactive waste dump it passes back into typical Goldfields Woodland . Here I took a few detours checking out the Watt Hills with there rocky rutted Iron peaks before taking an Ultra Scratchy track to Ive
rock and Wallengine soak (If only I could have found the easy way) before passing through Jaurdi Station with its brilliant
woodlands and breakaway areas and came out on the Goldfields highway about 100k East of
Southern cross - Good way to spend some of My week off
Reply By: Tony - Tuesday, Nov 08, 2005 at 19:54
Tuesday, Nov 08, 2005 at 19:54
Sounds most interesting. With all the little trips you are doing you will be able to put together some good track notes for your interstate visitors.
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Reply By: Topcat (WA) - Tuesday, Nov 08, 2005 at 22:46
Tuesday, Nov 08, 2005 at 22:46
Hi Davoe, looks like an interesting trek. One question. Did you take the track out from Ive
Rock that meets the highway at Boorabin or was it further east? I'm going to be in that area in a couple of weeks & may detour on my way back from Kalgoorlie to
Perth and possibly look at coming out at Yellowdine.
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Follow Up By: Member - Davoe (Widgiemooltha) - Wednesday, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:38
Wednesday, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:38
I visited Ive
Rock which is where Wallangie soak is. However With all the tracks in the area i didnt actually find the easy way in or out. I took a track south from Mt Finnerty past the breakaway
mine to Jhonnies
dam where it took a turn to the West and stopped at Yankie doodle
dam. Further exploration found a long disused track following a fencline to Ive
rock. On the way back I found the track south from Johnnies
dam that after going down a few wrong turns (drillers gridlines) led to jaurdi station. From there i met up with the railway and took the Mt walton health road to the highway. To answer your question You can take the track from boorabin to ive
rock and follow the same track i did. another option is to take the
yowie rocks track which goes from riverena to Koolynobbing via
Bungalbin Hill
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Reply By: gramps - Tuesday, Nov 08, 2005 at 23:47
Tuesday, Nov 08, 2005 at 23:47
"yellow sandplains which for some reason are nearly allways burnt out" and "radioactive waste dump" Hmmmm. You sure the truckies are'nt dumping short and then investigating the contents of their fridges to make up the shortfall in transit time :)))))))
Seriously though, good work Davoe. Always interested in these 'unknown/lost' tracks you manage to find. Keep it up, I'm sure everyone on the site appreciates your input.
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Reply By: Member - Ray - Tuesday, Nov 08, 2005 at 23:54
Tuesday, Nov 08, 2005 at 23:54
This brings back a few memories Davoe. I used to work in an exploration
camp out the back of the Jaurdi Hills way back in 1971. It was Real bush country then as there were not all those bloody survey lines and crap to confuse the area.Used to nip down to
Coolgardie some days after work to the Denver City for a few coldies.Took a bit longer to get back to
camp in the dark some nights.
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Follow Up By: Member - Davoe (Widgiemooltha) - Wednesday, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:40
Wednesday, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:40
Pommy backpacker working in the denver city at the moment and yes the survey lines confused me a couple of times
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Reply By: moss - Wednesday, Nov 09, 2005 at 00:11
Wednesday, Nov 09, 2005 at 00:11
Hi Davoe
I have been gone from Kal a long time but I thought Rowles was Nor west of Kal
more to the north of
Coolgardie?
I only have an old gregories map that doesnt show much of the detail of the
area but many moons back I travelled a lot of the bush (mostly south- south east of Boulder) round Kal and was trying to picture where you started.
Good country all of it.
David
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Follow Up By: Member - Davoe (Widgiemooltha) - Wednesday, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:23
Wednesday, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:23
Busted being geographically displaced again - yes of course it is NW
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Follow Up By: Rod W - Wednesday, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:20
Wednesday, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:20
G'day Dave, yes I was wondering to myself has he got all these directions correct. Ya should just say ya go here, then turn there, go up this way. Then ya cant get it wrong.
Did you continue on the fence line track heading west-south-west past Ive
Rock about 200 metres over the northsouth track to where there is a grave site of an early traveller who died of thirst in a dry small creek bed. To find him sposedly sparked one of the largest searches in WA.
See ya
Rod
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Follow Up By: Member - Davoe (Widgiemooltha) - Wednesday, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:01
Wednesday, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:01
No from Ive
rock I got a bit geographically displaced with all the tracks some looked better used than others which sometimes means only that they had been used recently for drilling. I ended up (by trial and error ) working my way s/e of Ive
rock to Jaurdi
homestead perhaps i need a decent trip leader again??
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