The morning of the 3rd October 2008 brought us to the second leaving. We had hoped that Deborah & Anthony were going to be able to join us on the first week of our travels,but Anthony's hospital appointments made that a little tight, so it was a sad goodbye again. I really did not like this second time round. Having said that I would like to thank them both for putting up with us and all our mess (we had to empty our caravan into their house, while it was being fixed), miss you heaps.
We passed the road up to Kalamunda, and started our travels in basically the same direction that we had on the 4th July... this time though we were doing the Golden Pipeline on the road to Coolgardie.
If you ever get a chance this is quite a fascinating trip, and I will do a blog entry on the engineer C Y O'Connor, This picture is of Cunderdin Pump No 3. All the stories of the firewood collection, the families and family history of father's and son's work on the pumps, all to get the water to Kalgoolie, for the gold rush.
It goes on and on, but the remaining bridges, dammed areas, all have a historic significance of there own.
This is an aqueduct that takes water from the bottom of Karalee Rock to the Dam. It is a fantastic piece of engineering for it's time. It was used to supply water to the railway line between Perth (Midland) and the Goldfields. Beautiful camping spot.
The morning of the 3rd October 2008 brought us to the second leaving. We had hoped that Deborah & Anthony were going to be able to join us on the first week of our travels,but Anthony's hospital appointments made that a little tight, so it was a sad goodbye again. I really did not like this second time round. Having said that I would like to thank them both for putting up with us and all our mess (we had to empty our caravan into their house, while it was being fixed), miss you heaps.
We passed the road up to Kalamunda, and started our travels in basically the same direction that we had on the 4th July... this time though we were doing the Golden Pipeline on the road to Coolgardie.
If you ever get a chance this is quite a fascinating trip, and I will do a blog entry on the engineer C Y O'Connor, This picture is of Cunderdin Pump No 3. All the stories of the firewood collection, the families and family history of father's and son's work on the pumps, all to get the water to Kalgoolie, for the gold rush.
It goes on and on, but the remaining bridges, dammed areas, all have a historic significance of there own.
This is an aqueduct that takes water from the bottom of Karalee Rock to the Dam. It is a fantastic piece of engineering for it's time. It was used to supply water to the railway line between Perth (Midland) and the Goldfields. Beautiful camping spot.
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