Restored water wheel at Gingin

Another short hop today, all on Tarmac, as we skirted around Perth to our chosen destination for tonight – a caravan park just to the west of Gingin, north of Perth.
As the journey was primarily made up of driving through the Perth suburbs it was a bit of a shock to the system after getting so used to nearly empty Tarmac roads and completely empty unsurfaced roads.
The journey wasn’t helped by us getting stuck in a queue behind a large load – a mining transporter/tipper on the back of a low loader. The outfit was over 2 lanes wide which meant no overtaking on the dual carriageway sections and it got more interesting on the single carriageway sections as oncoming vehicles, including road trains, were having to risk pulling onto the verges so it could squeeze past. Glad we weren’t in any hurry 🙂

The mill pond at Gingin, the race seems to feed to the wheel from a culvert on the right hand side.

Finally arriving at Gingin we stopped for lunch at the cafe and had a wander around the town. A really nice place as it turned out, well looked after and quite prosperous judging by some of the new houses being built on the outskirts.
Another 10km west and we arrived at the camp site, very friendly place and very relaxed, time for a steak and a bottle of beer or two out of the fridge !
Tomorrow we’ll head to the pinnacles first thing and then to a camp site on the coast which we’ll spend a couple of nights at if it’s nice. Might even go for a swim in the ocean yet.