Tomcats travels Perth to Sydney April 2023: Corrigin to Ravensthorpe

ANZAC DAY

Today is Anzac Day. Above is a small area to remember the men from all the wars from WW1, WW2 and all the wars since, which lies in a small sleepy town where we are staying tonight called Ravensthorpe. Quaint area will post photos in tomorrows blog.

Left Corrigin this morning at 7.30am after a good nights sleep as we were so tired after unpacking everything last night. We were asleep by 9.00pm. Today we drove for just over an hour and stopped at the famous Wave Rock passing through the wheatbelt town of Hayden. The rock was just amazing. Spent about an hour at the rock then drove for another two hours to Ravensthorpe passing through the town of Lake King. Where there is a salt lake which can be crossed over on a 10km causeway but once on that road you can’t turn around. Would have loved to drive over it but just didn’t have the time. We arrived at Ravensthorpe about 1.00pm to have a relaxing afternoon. Lovely small town 48km inland from the southern coast. We have been driving through what they call the wheatbelt area. Flat land which goes forever where they grow wheat. Wheat farms everywhere. Enjoyable day which started at 6deg when we got up early but warmed up during the day with the sun.

Now to introduce our amazing motorhome. A Fiat which has only done 5,361km. Not a mark or scratch on her. We are so lucky. Above you will notice a small slider that goes out for overnight to take the bed out to make more room inside. This photo was taken early this morning in last nights camp. Corrigin, a very small town and good small camp that’s well cared for.

Now we are setting up camp this arvo in Ravensthorpe town a little bigger with a camping ground set amongst the trees lovely relaxing quiet spot to have a quiet afternoon. Good break for PT from a three hour driving day.

It’s back end. Nice sight looking over the lawn to a little pond. Very peaceful. Some kangaroo poo around so might see some Roos come out at night,

Bed head which sits in the slide out area. Bed sits across the van hence the slide out so you can walk round the bed when parked up for the night as you will see in the photos below.

Boys stuff.

Dining

Standing behind the cab looking through to the bathroom far end. Nice having an island bed that you can walk around. We have a huge fridge for a motorhome. It’s black standing up behind the dining seat. Separate freezer at the top then fridge under that. More than enough space real luxury. Usually they are only the size of the one in the sleepout at Snells which we used to struggle with.

Showing the kitchen

Bathroom lies along the back of the van shower on the right.

Looking back from the bed. Using upstairs sleeping area for storage bags etc.

About an hour leaving camp this morning we have now arrived at Wave Rock, located near the wheatbelt town of Hayden. One of Australia’s recognisable landforms. Rising 15 metres from the ground and more than 100 metres long. The rock looks like a giant surf wave of multicoloured granite about to crash onto the bush below. What an amazing sight. Someone’s trying to make out he is surfing the wave. We were really looking forward to seeing this and weren’t disappointed. Fortunately the early morning sun was just right to shine on the granite rock. So worth coming this way to see. It is 336km south east from Perth.

This is a great angle showing how small the people look.

This is the first shot we saw as we approached it.

This shows the land above Wave Rock which we climbed up over it and where the trees are is where the formation of Wave Rock starts to fall down to the ground like a big wave at the foot of the trees.

About 1.5km along a path we now arrived at this large granite rock which has been named the Hippo’s yawn. Some kids actually climbed into the cave and climbed up through a hole which took them up outside on top of the stone.