Got told the night before that we would be leaving at 5.30 am (you what), how might have been a good idea to have gone to bed before the 1am we did, specially when you have to get up at 4.30am in order to grab a bite to eat and actually load the trailer up to leave on time. We all managed to do this although in the end Phil had to steal Romy’s bedding off him to get him out of bed.It works out at about a 12hr drive to Perth from Esperance which is why we have to leave at such an early time in the morning.
After a couple of hours we had a stop at a garage in order that everyone could grab some food for breakfast, we then carried on eventually getting to the town of Hyden which was our first place to go, here we visited Wave Rock, which is a natural rock formation carved out of the local rock face, it is 15 meters high and because of algae on the face it is streaked giving it the appearance of a wave. From here we walked along a trail about 2km to Hippo’s Yawn which from the side looked like that.
We then headed into the town of Corrigin where we stopped for our lunch, and a relax after being on the bus so long. Then we went and paid our respects to mans best friend at the Dog Cemetery. Also in the town they have the World Record for the most dogs in a yut queue. We then carried on to our last stop the town of York which was the settlement outside of Perth, when people first came to the region.
This was then the end of our tour and we stopped on the edge of one of the parks to get some group pictures, before everyone was dropped back to their accommodation.
Tags: Corrigin, Dog Cemetery, Earn Your Stripes, Esperance, Hippo's Yawn, Hyden, Isla, Perth, Romy, statravel, Wave Rock, Western Xposure Tours
