It’s an early start and a big day, we want to find some wreath flowers and learn about Australia’s biggest earth quake.

So we ponder over plans while we dine at the Dalwallinu Hotel for breakfast, a great meal, huge, as is normal country cooking and nice staff, then we stroll through their town community vegetable garden.

Our first stop is Buntine Rocks, many daisies and Donkey type orchids. A great view from on top of these rocks.

Another stop at Wubin Rock, there are again plenty of flowering shrubs and daisies.

We drive the back roads until we come across a good patch of Wreath flowers Lechenaultia macrantha at exactly the spot as advised by the information centre at Wongan Hills. These are astonishing, unique and beautiful flowers well worth the trip north to find them. The interesting ecological point to note is they prefer disturbed landscapes and hence we find them along the roadside verges.

It’s then a little east and south along part of the Rabbit Proof fence, which no longer stops much at all. A huge man made agricultural structure in its early day.

We are now heading south stopping at Meckering to explore and learn about the 6.9 earthquake that wreaked havoc upon this town and surrounding region in 1968. The rose garden and walks around the local park have excellent information boards about the earthquake.

A few kilometres further and next stop is the Cunderdin museum. This is a must visit venue. Plenty of information about securing water resources for W.A. communities, farming history, and more about the earthquake. They even have a display, where you sit in a lounge room and it shakes with the same effect as the earthquake. The museum is housed in the former No 3 Steam Pumping Station from the first of the pipelines to reach Kalgoorlie. This line was completed in 1902.

Tonight we stay at Tammin in the Donnan Park campgrounds, this is attached to the sportsground / football oval, it has great facilities, it’s quiet and not expensive.