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Hyden
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Wave Rock
This is a top pick! ... of the wave. In 1960, some crystals from Hyden Rock were dated as being 2700 million years old, amongst the oldest in Australia. After taking a photo of us surfing the rock (we have now done winnebago surfing, valley of the giants tree top surfing, ...
Surfing Wave Rock
We continued our trip to Hyden, a tiny little village, with only a few places to stay. We managed to stay in a cabin at a camping resort right beside the Wave Rock. We were the first to get to the impressive Wave rock, the long drive the previous ...
Wave Rock
We left Perth on Sunday morning in Jo'Anna and headed for Wave Rock, via HW5, HW30, HW40... we got there about 3pm after a few stops along the way.... fuel is approx $1.50 per litre at Roadhouses (that still works out cheaper than back home). Wave ...
der suedwesten-wave rock
... , sondern richitg viel platz^^ und halb voll war der tank auch noch. Unser naechstes ziel war das kleine doerfchen hyden mit seinem bekannten "wave rock" circa 300km westlich land einwaerts von perth. Das bedeutete stundelanges gerade-aus-fahren ...
Wave Rock
... to the colouring of the wave. In 1960, crystals from Hyden rock were dated as being 2,700 million years old, amongst the oldest in Australia. Took some good photos but as the sun was going down it was not safe to climb up the rock or go on any other ...
Riding the wave!
The plan for the next part of our journey is to make a loop around the South-West corner of Australia, starting by heading East inland to Esperance and then taking the coast road back to Perth. After leaving Fremantle (a little reluctantly), and driving ...
Way home Perth to Hyden
... the Dog Cemetery at Corrigan. It started in 1974 with "Strike" and now has over 100 dogs there. Hyden has an interesting street-scape made up of scrap metal sculptures depicting important locals through the ages. We went to visit ...
Wave Rock
After a six hour drive we make it to Wave Rock, a fifteen metre tall and one-hundred metre long rock, which is oddly enough shaped like a wave. Wave Rock occupied our attention for twenty minutes or so but there's only so much time one can spend admiring ...
Wave Rock
... night in a very small town called Corrigin and even with the tiny population still managed to boast an Olympic swimming pool - no wonder Australia wins so many medals! Arrived in intense heat at 'The Rock' and had a quick nosy before we decided to jump ...
from surf waves to rock waves
... can say Mr Bun the baker you had the whole town laid out before you. Further down the road we came across one of the "Hyden Tour Highlights". A very small town with a not so catchy but insightful name of "the town of the dog in the ute". This place ...
The First Few Days!
After a stressful start to our journey, too much stuff, too many people asking what and where, We finally arrived @ our first free camp, 20 minutes before dark! Was all good, beans and toast for dinner, did'nt to want overwhelm everyone on the first ...
eine versteinerte Welle mitten im Outback
... hatte ich dann noch 2 Tage in Perth zu verbringen. Um mir die Zeit totzuschlagen hab ich dann ne Tagestour zum Waverock nach Hyden gemacht. Die meiste Zeit haben wir zwar im Bus gesessen (haben um die 750km an einem Tag zurueckgelegt), aber so einige ...
300km of corrugated road
Wave rock was very cool, we spend the morning doing a 10km walk through to the hippos mouth and out through the surrounding bush. We had taken a swim in a natural salt water pool not far from wave road, the water is 4 time saltier than the sea and I ...
Wave Rock
Der totale Kontrast. Vor wenigen Stunden noch an weissen Straenden gewesen und nuuu.... Duerre, Wueste, totale Farblosigkeit und ein wellenfoermiger Stein namens Wave Rock. Morgen frueh geht es auch schon wieder weiter... Delphine wir ...
Surf's up, dude
... now frozen in time. Believed to have formed over 2700 million years ago, Wave Rock is part of the northern face of Hyden Rock. The shape of the wave is formed by gradual erosion of the softer rock beneath the upper edge, over many ...
Between lots of Rocks and a hard place to find
LOCATION - Touring around “upper” SW Australia TIME - approx 3 days worth here TOUR GOALS - Kill some flies Warm up We are writing this piece having landed back at Alice Springs, after spending 3 days amongst some of the greatest ...
wave rock
we arrived at wave rock & booked into a cabin so we thought, the booking office was something out of the wild west,we moved on to our cabin & we drove through these amazing salt lakes, our cabin was a bungalow so big a family of 6 would be ...
The Big Wave - Esperance to Hyden
We left a little later than we had planned as there were so many people to talk to… but finally got going at about 8.30am. We stopped at Ravensthorpe for fuel and food then continued to Wave Rock. The area is mostly wheat crops and the ...
my birthday
this is just a quickie as my internet time has nearly finished thank you all for the cards & emails wishing me a happy birthday, i had a very busy day & will blog it soon hopefully with a few ...
Wave rock
This morning we managed to pack up during a break in the showers and headed for Wave Rock in Hyden, we saw the rock in between showers, found more tadpoles and then had a look at Hippo's ...
Day 84 - Wave Rock (near Hyden)
After a lengthy resupply stop at the Albany Woolies (well one of them) we finally headed out of town around 10:30am. We had changed our plans and were now heading north to avoid the bad weather which was coming in from the Southern Ocean. The ...
Wave Rocks
... 2 dagen over gedaan. We reden niet langs de kust terug, de kortste afstand voldeed nu wel. Eerste (en enige) stop op de weg was in Hyden waar zich ook de vrij bekende Wave Rocks bevinden. De naam zegt dus exact wat het is: 15m hoge rots in de vorm van een ...
Wave Rock
... tourist walk around the rock. Stretch thought he would go for a swim in the pool (didn't get wet though, too cold) while I cooked up the wild peaches. Expected our mail at Hyden but it didn't arrive (bloody Australia Post) so having it sent onto ...
Day 57
... away from our German buddies at the Campers' kitchen area to eat in peace! Time to say “Gute Nacht”..... Goodnight Australia........oh, no, can hear the Vater snoring.....like he was in the tent with us......dass ist ja toll!!!!! Road kills: ...
Riding a pertified wave
... art inside inside Mulka's Cave and trekked over The Humps, exploring tafoni*, gnammas** and other erosion formations. We also popped into Hyden. It is a small farming town, that has used tourism (and the thousands of visitors to Wave Rock) to keep itself ...
Everybody's going surfing.... surfing W A.....
... have a look around at the top with views as far as the eye can see or basically nothing, and a few large boulders. We leave Hyden and Margaret was thirsty - so we arrive at an outback "pay at pump" where the payment takes place about 50m from the pump in ...
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