Day 3: Boondi Rock

17 November 2010

Boondi Rock is a national park approximately 100kms east of Yellowdine, just 150kms short of Kalgoorlie. We arrive at 2pm and decide to stay when we find a shady spot in a free campground next to a man-made dam. A watercourse extending out of the dam leads to a granite outcrop where, 100 or so years ago the early settlers built a two foot high wall at its base to channel rain water into the dam. I walk around the five acre span of ochre and brown rock, disturbing stripe-tailed lizards who seem to move at the speed of light on long legs. Sometimes they stop and watch me, their heads dipping as if they have a nervous tick. I swim in the dam, even though it’s full of minnows and green slime, and feel refreshed. We eat kangaroo and veggies roasted in the new Dutch oven - simple and delicious – with a bit of mayonnaise squeezed over the top; real camp food. When the daylight dies, we watch an episode of Lost in the tent while the near-full moon casts grey shadows on a still warm night.

  

“What then shall it profit the man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.” 

~Billboard in the bush on the Gr Eastern Hwy just this side of Kalgoorlie