Week 507 - Boddington, Western Australia

A leisurely departure from Kojonup on the Sunday morning took us just 84 kms north east to Wagin Showground.  A comfortable RV stopover with power and water.  Power for the heater, believe it or not.  The temperature at night has plummeted down to single figures and days have been in their teens.

A painter's nightmare

Waiting for the storm - Wagin

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You are parked nearly in the same spot as we were when we visited

Wagin is an old railway town.  It did have three huge sprawling pubs but only one operating at the moment and the town is sleepy with not many shops at all.  Alarmingly, there seems to be too many coffee shops, clambering for the coffee bean dollar.  

A relaxing three days at Wagin, we headed on to the Quindanning Hotel and for some reason we ended up on 25 kms of dirt road.  Fortunately, the road was in good condition, but the toad and the bus was covered in desert dust.

Quindanning Hotel - A revisit to the Quindanning 
Hotel, didn't replicate the first.

We last visited the Quindanning Hotel back in 2012, however, it has lost its atmosphere and now only stocks mundane, run of the mill beers.

Boddington Airstrip - the town of Boddington 
has hundeds of sculptures, probably too 
many for a small sleepy town.

From the Q Hotel, we headed to Boddington a successful mining town in the middle of the wheat belt.  The injection of money was evident throughout the town but alas, the Boddington Hotel is another failure, although it did sell 50 lashes - that's the best they could do.

Common Bronzewing - this little critter whoop 
whoops all day as it breaths out.

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Dot - not like you Derek, you whoop whoop when you lease expect it???

For those of you that are uninitiated - "Boddingtons" is a great english beer brewed in Manchester, next to Strangeways prison.  Boddingtons has been my beer of choice for over 25 years. I always had a supply of it at Bulimba and often received a carton or two for my birthday.  Very much appreciated, and funny enough, the coffee shop sold cans of Boddingtons.

Bridge over Hotham River, Boddington

We are camped by the river between the weir and the highway bridge.  The bird life is in abundance.  It is quiet and peaceful and we have had a few days of warm sunshine which makes a difference.

Our mileage this week was 317 kms and our budget was $145 under. Things couldn't be sweeter.

Comments

Gill
2018-12-07

As always amazing photos