All photos © TFB, 2007.
Well when we finally got our procrastinating backsides into gear, we set off for another excellent motorcycle trip... and determined to get away from the coast, we all shot off to Wave Rock for the long weekend in October 2007. The weather was brilliant, although the spring nights were pretty nippy — but that's par for the course when you move away from the coast.
And now a few photos...
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The merry crew met at Warwick's joint for departure.
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Here we are pulled over for a pit-stop in some wheatbelt town.
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When we finally got to Hyden (2 day's trip out into the south-west of Western Australia), we couldn't camp at the Wave Rock campsite, because it had been taken over by some wretched hippie music festival. So with night falling we did about another 18kms to Mulka's Cave, and camped nearby for the night.
Mulka's Cave (above & below) itself is the hollow underside of a heeee-yooooge granite boulder. Inside there are lots of aboriginal hand-paintings. In fact I read somewhere that it is the premier site for rock art in the SW of WA. Awesome stuff indeed.
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And here we have the entrance to the cave. As you can see, we Aussies know how to look after sites of national & cultural importance. That is why we stick metal rails and weldmesh walkways everywhere, see, to preserve the sense of reverence we have for these places. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the beauty of this spot has been, well, butchered. And just to prove we have a national talent for this kind of aesthetic vandalism, we've managed a similar stunt with Wave Rock itself...
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... and we've put a wonderful CONCRETE WALL across the top of the thing. Now to be fair, it's part of a water-catchment setup in this fairly arid region. And no one's going to begrudge the locals their right to gather water out here... but seriously, is a whopping great ugly concrete brick wall the only way to do this, chaps?
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Mulka's Cave itself is at the foot of 'The Humps', a large granite outcrop which looks out over the flat wheatbelt land in every direction. It's an easy climb to the top and the views are spectacular.
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Not quite up there with Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay, but in all fairness these are without a doubt the ugliest blokes ever to scale this peak.
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These rocks have been here for a long time.
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Four excellent motorcycles parked in Narrogin, while we ducked over the road for a counter lunch in the local hotel.
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[Caption competition is now open for this photo...]
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Here we are breaking camp at Boddington before we all shot off home. It all got a bit too much for some of us in the end...
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