East of Geralton into the Outback is a landscape dominated by wheatfields which are normally harvested at this time of the year and not attractive anymore.  After the wheatfields disappear the landscape changes into the well known outback vegetation with its shrubs, bushes and hardly any trees or hills. Boring to drive through if you haven't a good audiobook to listen to...

Than in the middle of nowhere is Mt Magnet, a small golddigger village about 400km from the coast. They still find lots of gold and huge machinery is required  to get all this stone and earth moved. We've been to a lookout and had a look over the mines (open cut). Those companies are changing a landscape completly and are reliable for a whole bunch of new hills (all the same shape) and valleys (quite deep) which are really not pleasant for the eye to meet. It is, thought, impressive to see.

Not far away from Mt Magnet is a region called the Granites. Those granites are the left overs of an older stonelayer which was eroded over million of years. Once upon a time it was a very important place for the local Aborigines (being shelter and sacred places) and therefore should have some traces left, such as rock arts, but we weren't able to find those treasures. 

Our next stop was in Sandstone, another golddigger village. First we intended to camp there but as we drove through the only street in the village we knew we weren't going to camp there. The only attraction of the village is another left over of an older stonelayer which forms a natural bridge (and that's called the London Bridge - any surprises?). After having lunch by the bridge we headed further east and stopped in Leonora - an other golddigger village. The village itself was neat and tidy but the campground was just grouse. Unfortunately it was already late and we didn't want to drive by night so we had to stay there.

Early the next day we drove on to Kalgoorlie and its famous Super Pit. It is really that impressive as every brouchure states. This huge goldmine (open cut) is  3.5km x 1.5km x 370m (deep)! It is impossible to see its deepest point from the lookout anymore! No wonder you can see this mine from space! And the machinery is just unbelivable!

As one of our last goals we wanted to see Wave-Rock. This unusually formed rock lies again in the wheatbelt and further west. The Wave-Rock, whatsoever,  has nothing to do with real waves (wasn't formed by waves).It is only its shape on one side of the rock that reminds of a huge wave. We explored this granit from the bottom to the top because we've driven a "few" kilometers to see it.

But Wave-Rock wasn't the only granite we've vsited. Granites as the Wave-Rock are very common in the south-west of western Australia. There was of course another one very near. Unfortunately not with an easy-to-remember-name as all the others in the vicinity, such as Frog-Rock, Kangaroo-Rock, Dragon-Rock... But this one wasn't famous for its form or shape but for its cave. This Mulka's cave was worth the driving because there we've seen lots of ingenious rock art in form of hands...

Then we headed to Perth. The way through the wheatbelt was very long...

We stopped in Perth' port city Freemantle from where we wanted to go to Rottnest Island (just to see Quokkas) for one day. Because the waether forcast was not good at all we decided against it. Biking in the rain wasn't what we wanted to experience just now. A shame, the weather turned out to be splendid...Anyway, we had lots to do in Perth whatsoever. Now we've got only one day left and haven't even got one souvenier....