LAVERTON WA-CENTRAL DESERT COUNTRY Monday 15 July 2013 (There is a place called Laverton near Geelong, Victoria, but the WA place is pronounced differently…Layverton.) Another perfect sunny day, 24 degrees, while Perth has cold rainy storms. The rains that have been happening in the north eastern and central parts of WA have settled down, which helps us with our motor biking adventures. We don't want to deal with flooded roads if we can avoid it. Lav...

LOVELY LEONORA AND GHOSTLY GWALIA Sunday 14 July 2013 It was a lovely sunny day for riding into Leonora, the north eastern goldfields town that has seen much bigger days. Now Leonora is a tiny town with a row of closed down little shops, 2 roadhouses, a pub, a surprisingly large and well stocked supermarket, a post office and a tourist office. And a caravan park for Mighty Intrepids! The town relies on some mining contractors, along with hopeful gold prospe...

Seeking the past in Menzies - Saturday 13th July As much as we enjoyed Kalgoorlie we were glad to be moving on and leaving our "Bad weather hoodoo" behind. Grey clouds and cold weather saw us on our way to Leonora. The plan was to have a good look around Menzies where my Great Grandfather was reported, in our family history, to be the Postmaster in the early 1900's. Menzies is one of those ever shrinking ex-gold towns that are way past their glory days. The ...

THREADS OF TIME ENTWINE-A STORY OF ONE MAN'S HONESTY Yesterday Dave and I stopped at Menzies for 2 ½ hours, on our way to Leonora for a few days. Thirty five years ago when I used to live in the Eastern Goldfields, Menzies was a busier town; now it is a main street that has been heritage listed and a lot of money has been spent on signs, iron sculptures and other history features, courtesy of the Royalties for Regions dollars going back into the local minin...

KALGOORLIE: MUSEUM DAY: FRIDAY 12 JULY 2013 Dave and I woke up to a freezing cold morning, listening to rain pattering on our tent outside. Because our little electric fan heater had broken the night before, we stayed huddled in our feather sleeping bags, as there is no point in shivering in a flimsy tent too early in the morning. I did my yoga stretchies in the camp kitchen instead of outside because the ground was awash with rain. I wouldn't have done th...