Some WA Places to go

PS I hope to see some of you famous photography on the trip review!! ;-)

Yer all good things come to an end sooner or later. Was just me for the first 5 days, it was quite pleasant actually. Was always busy during the day. I think it is a fabulous part of the country to explore and there is lots of places to go and things to see but one has to get off the beaten track and get one's vehicle scratched and then the odd staked tyre to enjoy. I've seen a fair bit of it but it's only the tip of the iceberg.

I revisited the Windarling Range and Mt Jackson, which are now both active iron ore mine sites. I'm glad I have before photos of the spectacular ranges, I now have the after photos, and what Mother Nature has taken millions of years to build is currently and will be wiped out in about 10 years.

If people haven't been to Bungalbin Hill and the Helena Aroura Range and experienced the campsite up on top of the range then they should do it because the rage is all iron ore and earmarked to be mined. I'll get off me soapbox now.

Jim came out on the 5th day, as he wanted to detect the Curragong Gorge. We've both been there before (walked 10ks return from our vehicles), this time we found an easier way to drive it.

One of the maps of this Yilgan region that I have has marked on it "Bldg's (not seen)", they have been now! I've been there a couple of time to find them, I was close but didn't look hard enough, but this time I found them, took some photos and coordinates and will past them onto DOLA to upgrade their info/maps. There is remnants of two timber poled structures.

You're welcome.

Just tried that in this reply nothing happened.

Great tip Greg. How do you remember what numbers and is there anywhere you can go to figure out these sort of codes?

Mike,

What operating system are you using?

With windows, since version 3.1, there has been a utility called the Character Map. You can use that to select and copy characters and symbols from any available font set and paste them into any other application.

It's a lot slower than remembering the character value (and hoping it's the same for the font you're currently using) but at least it's reliable.

Thanks pluto. I've got Windows XP so I'll have a play.

Hello - sorry for late reply - been busy. The file in question is charmap.exe (found in the C:\windows\system32 folder) It lists all shortcuts to huge number of symbols. As pointed out its been around for a while but for some reason not shown as a shortcut in Start Menu's anymore (well not on the computers I have had recently) . If you have Word you can also find endless supply of symbols via the Insert - symbol menu.
Cheers ☺
Greg

Thanks Michelle but no thanks.

Here I was I had a cold beer waitng for you to show up every arvo but in the end I had to drink it myself.

waaaaay to many coldies anyway. I got rained in on monday, it rained all day so i sat under my tarp strung off the roof rack and drained the esky. Bit concerned on your coments about tyres. The Toyos my 80 came with are proving a total dud and that is on good tracks, They seem very prone to sidewall damage with one a complete wreck and 3 other sidewall punctures

The tyres, ya read so much dribble about how good these/my tyres are that people think they are puncture proof but in reality they're not.

I run on BFG's, I'm happy with them and really can't see any reason to change or thing to change for.

On this trip I managed to stake one tyre only (on a previous trip to the region it was 5). On this trip I came across an exploration camp with a few tyres and rims laying around, the blokes said they're all 12 ply and all with sidewall stakes.

I've only had one stake through the tread all the others have been the sidewalls.

I guess what I'm saying is not to go out un or under prepared. I have over $200 in an assortment of rubber plugs, patches and pull through patches (from Rema Tiptop). On this this trip I also carried 3 spare tyres (2 on rim 1 off rim).

Was bored at work and was looking through the Archives and found it was you who gave me the number for Kanandah stn when I posted about visiting lake Boonderoo. Well i rang up and went there and it was certainly different. Still a fair bit of water but well down on what I here it was in its heyday (post bobby) there was a forest bleached dead gums through out the lake and it was interesting to canoe through them. I didnt see any sighns of the yabbies that were ment to proliferate the lake - perhaps too saltie now. I also found a track that comes close to where ponton creek feeds into it and judging by the dead gums as far as the eye could see it must have been some sight 10 years ago

That was a-while back. Yep I/we was out there 1999/2000 change of the century as an overnight camp, with a refreshing dip in the lake, as part of a run that included Baxters Cliffs and a 80k beach run to Isralite Bay. Which was the second time I'd done/arranged this trip. But the first which was just after Bobby didn't included Boonderoo cause I didn't make enquiries with Kanandah.