We spent a week in the school holidays just passed staying on my family’s farm in Newdegate. It’s a long drive from Geraldton, but always filled with the anticipation of seeing family, exploring, building cubbies, shooting, making things at the shed with Papa and having lots of space to ride bikes and roam. It’s a lovely drive (rather dry this year after very little summer rain), which is made much more interesting by passing through the Tin Horse Highway near Kulin. The kids love seeing the roadside art and pointing out their favourites.
These are just a few of the horses you can see along the Gorge Rock – Lake Grace Road. As you will notice, some of the photos are from a few years back when our kids were a lot smaller. The tin horses were made by locals to promote the Kulin Bush Races and are very quirky and imaginative. The first horse was made in 1995 and many more have been added since that time. You never know what you will find, as new ones are constantly being added by the community. I’m sure each horse has its own fascinating story to tell!
While we were staying in Newdegate we also made a trip to the coast at Pallinup, which is approximately two hours away. My husband has very special family memories of spending Christmases here with extended family, camped in a salmon fisherman’s shack. It is a beautiful place only accessible by a rugged four-wheel drive track. We jagged one of those lovely warm mid Autumn days when it was warm enough to swim (somewhat rare on the south coast)! The kids loved seeing all the places my husband swam, hunted for shells and the areas of interest he had named as a boy. Another highlight was having the entire bay to ourselves for most of the day.
Well, holidays have been over for sometime now and I haven’t updated the blog for a while, as I’ve been caught up in the excited frenzy of planning a family trip to America in the middle of the year! Before then I have the rest of this wheatbelt trip to post, as well as the details of my son’s mad scientist birthday party held last weekend. See you soon!
