After many years of thinking about it, we’ve finally started, our 8-month holiday where we intend to spend the first 6 months of our holiday in the van, exploring this great country of ours.
1st stop Baladjie Rock and Nature Reserve, 360kms from home, out in Central East of WA’s Wheatbelt region. As usual, we took as many back roads as we could find to get here, travelling out through Toodyay, Goomalling, Trayning and Mukinbudin, before arriving at Baladjie Rock.
Baladjie Rock is one of the numerous granite outcrops spread throughout WA and is impressive in its size and features. We camped for a couple of nights at the Nature Reserve campground, situated between the rock and Lake Baladjie, a salt lake. There are heaps of spots to camp around the rock and a nice flushing dunny in the main area. The only downside was the flies, they were many, tiny and annoying as f#ck. So, out with the trendy flynets and Bushmans.
Luckily the flies go to sleep at sundown and with no standing water anywhere the night remained mozzie-free. Pizza in the Ziggy with a glass of the GreenSkin (https://greenskinwine.com/ – check them out, the wine is great and packs smaller, lighter and easier than bottles) pouch wine and a small campfire was the night’s entertainment.
A slow start to the morning, with brekky in the van to escape the flies, before we re-netted and bug sprayed and walked around and over Baladjie Rock. Great spot to explore, but with the bush really dry at present, there weren’t many birds or any wildlife to spot, a pair of circling wedgies was the most exciting.
We had intended to camp here for three nights, but now that we’ve pretty much explored the rock, we’re going to head off to Helena Aurora Ranges, aka Bungalbin tomorrow, via Southern Cross for a quick restock tomorrow.
Loving the diary . I can travel with you doing the wine but not the flies 😃
The flies are bad but have enough wine and they no longer matter.