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Finally the right hand bend
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Thursday 15th July, 2021 23.5km
The bus taking the early morning shift to the mine woke me up, then I was on my way again looking for the diversion arrows.
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| It's important I suppose |
A mine worker did stop and asked me why I was walking up the road as there was only a mine there but after a conversation he did indicate I hadn't missed the turn off.
So I go past a billboard telling me it's a criminal offence to be on the access road or minesite. I can hear the dozer working when I finally see the sign leaving the bitumen. So the directions of "be careful of the mine site leaving Mt Perry, just follow the signs on the right hand bend", actually mean leave the road on the last bend before the mine 20 kilometres south of Mt Perry.
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| Lovley to walk through here |
But it doesn't end there, if its so important for us to keep to the trail then it should be clearly marked. I went through 3 intersections , none of them marked, I must have guessed wrong on one as I ended up in the wrong spot, but I fixed it on the run and no one is the wiser.
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| The trail across farmland |
The trail, after the mine diversion, wanders across farm lands, and is a pleasant walk. I filled up at a cattle trough and found a spot beside the road with a bunch of calves as an audience to me setting up the tent.
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| A different trail sign |
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| My afternoon company |
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