Day 47 – Boondi Rock
At Fraser Range, we sent the kids up one of the nearby hills one last time, for luck, then followed them. A fine view, indeed.
We saddled up, and got on the road. Second last day of holiday as it turns out; we’ll get somewhere between Kalgoorlie and Perth today. That somewhere turned out to be Boondi Rock, within the Goldfields Woodlands National Park.
This is a lovely little free campsite, next to one of the dams that were constructed to facilitate the early gold rush in Kalgoorlie. Runoff rainwater is collected on the Rock, then collected in the dam.
That description doesn’t really give a sense of the scale of the thing, though. The Rock is a low granite monolith covering dozens of hectares.
Stone slabs were quarried from the rock to form a large gutter around the entire base to channel the runoff. Each slab will easily weigh hundreds of kilograms. The effort involved to cut, haul and install the kilometres of slabs by hand in those days just boggles my mind.
I, naturally, attempted to climb in the quarry.
This was to be our last holiday dinner, so we had a special “everything left in the fridge” menu. Jamie assisted ably.
Home tomorrow, is the plan.