We packed up early and headed out east to Norseman, to replenish fuel at reasonable prices. Norseman, itself looks like an old, forgotten gold mining town that is a little worse for wear. It has a series of corrugated tin camels which add some brightness to the town. Nevertheless, the best price to be had for diesel on the Nullarbor - so who's complaining?
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| Tin camels at Norseman with Biggle & Co |
From Norseman, we decided to take the Norseman Road eastwards. It was a deserted dirt road through to Hyden and the world-famous Wave Rock, the road used mainly by mining camps. This straight dirt road moved through salt lakes and then through endless unbroken kilometres of scrublands and red soils as far as the eye could see.
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| Car surfing the Norseman Road |
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| Salt lakes on Norseman Road |
We arrived at the small town of Hyden, had time to set up camp at the Wave Rock Caravan Park adjacent to Wave Rock and took the short walk to the sight. Wave Rock certainly is a beautifully sculpted natural sight, looking like a rising wave, cresting several metres high. We clambered on and around it, taking some of its short walks and pictures of the kids in surfing poses.
In the evening we battened down the hatches on the trailer, as the calm night was expected to be altered by an upcoming thunder-storm coming from the south-east.
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| Wave Rock |
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| Fishing in rock-pools on Wave Rock |
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| Hippo's Yawn |
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| Spot Biggle in Tin Sculptures in Hyden |
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