Friday, Oct 07, 2016 at 00:32
We'd support the usefulness of the brochure as
well. We came East through there a couple of months ago and provided the road condition is as good as then, then it's a great drive. We joked that they might as
well paint a white line down the centre for most of it. If checking the road condition on the
Dundas Shire (
Norseman) web site don't be put off if it is shown as closed and hasn't been updated for some days. We were staying at Kulin waiting for it to be marked as "Open" and eventually I rang
Dundas Shire and found that they had forgotten to update its condition. Ring them to double
check.
We stayed the first night at
Forrestania Plots, 2nd at
The Breakaways and the 3rd at
McDermid Rock. On the 4th we almost only did the 10km to
Lake Johnston but went on to
camp at the
Lookout on the Western side of
Lake Cowan which is opposite
Norseman. In that last stretch we did have a break at
Lake Johnston and then further on climbed up
Disappointment Rock. Slowness wasn't anything to do with the road itself, just the enjoyment of the trip. Even with towing the van we could have done
Hyden to
Norseman in under 6 hours but wouldn't have seen much of the various sites or the
Wildflowers that were starting to appear as
well as meeting the people we did along the way. Provided the road is open, would we use it again, ABSOLUTELY.
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