After leaving Karijini National Park we drove to Newman, had a look at the mining there, still travelling the Great Northern Hwy we camped on the Gascoyne River, once we set up camp we had lots of thunder & lighting with only a few stops of rain the worst thing was we had to find a blanket during the night. At Meekatharra we checked out their gold mining history. We turned onto the Goldfield Hwy towards Wiluna of the 185 ks we had 160 ks of dirt it took us 2 1/2 hours.
We got to see the first of many wildflowers on this part of our trip. We were very surprise how good they looked as we thought we might have been to late to see them at there best.We made it into Leonora. We lost count how many mines there were between Newman & Leonara.
5 k's from Leonara is Gwalia its a ghost town but in the 1800's right up to the 1960's it was an important town of the goldfields in WA. Today we wondered around the old buildings there are many homes, a guest house, a sly grog shop & a garage and it looks like when they left in 1960's the only thing they took was their clothing as everything else is still there.
With the technology they have today the mine has been reopened as there is still alot of gold there that was missed by the old propectors.
Love the photo's
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