This morning we left our little campsite at Mount Walker and drove by fields of stunning yellow canola set against a backdrop of blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds. We passed another of those funny/silly tourist icons - this time a shoe fence studded with shoes of all colours and sizes stretching over a kilometer or so of highway. We stopped in the tiny town of Narrembeen to check out the Grain Discovery Centre, which gave us an insight into the history and production of wheat and other grains in the Wheatbelt.
Then we headed north to meet the Great Central Highway and our first stop was on the highway itself to check out the signage for the Number One Rabbit Proof Fence, commenced here in 1901 and with the honour of being the longest fence in the world at 1837km. The fence runs all the way from Esperance in the south all the way to Port Hedland in the north. The movie, Rabbit Proof Fence, has forever immortalized this Australian icon.
We stopped in the central Wheatbelt town of Merredin, situated roughly half way between Perth and Kalgoorlie.
From here we travelled east to Southern Cross (named after the constellation), where we stopped in the town's free camp for the night.
BBQ'd dinner in the weber and watched the first of the new four-part series Roots on SBS, which was well told but very violent (as was the history of slavery).
Time to try to sleep, hoping not to have bad dreams about slavery.
Night night xx