Mosaic Monday #27

Mosaic Monday - Western Australia
  
In 2009 we travelled to Western Australia  for our first caravan adventure.  It was a 3 month trip and we did approximately 16,000 km on mostly bitumen roads, and only a few times we unhooked and travelled on dirt roads.

Lake Argyle, WA

Lake Argyle is Australia's second largest freshwater man-made reservoir which was made by damming the Ord River and is 18 times the size of Sydney Harbour, and is part of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme.
  

 

Boab Trees


The Boab Tree is unique to Australia and is found in the Kimberly region of Western Australia.  It is related to the Baobab tree and is sometimes called the Bottle Tree and can reach up to 15 metres high.

The Boab Prison Tree

The Prison Tree is a registered Aboriginal Site. Visitors are requested to respect the cultural sensitivity of the site and not climb the tree. The massive ancient Boab Prison Tree is believed to be around 1,500 years old.

Derby, Western Australia

Derby, Western Australia

Derby is a small town in the Kimberly region with a population of around 3,300 people.  It is located on King Sound and has very high tides with the difference between low and high tide of 11.8 metres.

Derby Loading Wharf

Derby sunset

The seed pod of the Boab tree is often carved by the local  people and sold to tourists (we bought this one  and got permission to take his photo).

Myall's Bore, Derby

The long trough near Derby is 20 metres long and could handle 500 bullocks at a time. Built in the early 1900s, the impressive historic trough provided water for up to 1,000 head of cattle at a time. It is said to be one of the longest cattle troughs in the southern hemisphere.