Travel Story: jax kennedy - australia
Under a thousand words he says… how the heck am I
going to keep it under a thousand words?
Does he know where I am? Does he know what I need
to cover? One month in the south west corner of
Western Australia needs THREE thousand words! Oh
dear – what to include and what to leave out?
Well I have to mention the Tin Horse Highway. The
community has gone to so much trouble to attract the
visitors with 20 kilometres of 44 gallon drum “horse”
sculptures, how can I just skip over it? One simply
MUST stop at the Kulin Museum to see the Sunbeam
motorcycle. And Wave Rock is notable even though
Gorge Rock has a much better campsite and
swimming hole. And I can’t possibly omit Chittering
or the New Norcia monastery. Did I mention the
wildflowers? Oh… what a display! The fullsize replica
of Stonehenge is not everyone’s cup of tea but like
Gnomesville, I am attracted by the spirit of the
ridiculous and detour accordingly. Gnomesville has
evolved and grown on a small pocket of land near
Wellington Mill where a few gnomes invited their
friends to come and enjoy a fairytale life. The exodus
saw thousands of gnomes infiltrate every corner of
the bushland and establish schools and pubs and
churches. I visited Gnomesville twice after liberating
a Perth gnome and setting it free amongst its own
kind. I suppose I could leave out the Corrigin Dog
Cemetery and the Big Dog but then I’d have to leave
out the Big Orange, the Big Marron and the Big Shears
as well.