Bunbury to Collie WA

Travelled: 177k. To Bunbury, Collie and Wellington Dam

 Stay: Wellington NP -Potters Gorge campsite $18pn seniors 

After a wet, gusty and road noisy night we got ourselves organised and drove off before 9am. We filled up on some Coles fuel and then continued onto Bunbury. The town was built around the port which originally moved wheat but now it is woodchip and alumina. We parked up next to the information centre and got loaded up with maps etc. the town boomed in the 19th century becoming a seaside resort for miners flush with gold.

One of the  main attractios are the bottlenose dolphins that frequent the bay and approach the shoreline on a regular basis…. No luck for us today!

There are several panoramic lookouts, beaches and historical sites to explore.

Unfortunately the weather was deplorable and our enthusiasm for site-seeing diminished accordingly.

In Gnomesville there over 10,000 gnomes.. here is only one…

So we headed east to Collie, a coal mining town, starting in 1923 and still going…

We learnt about the trains..

The war…

The mines…

After a look around we headed back west to Wellington Dam where murals were painted on the dam wall

that was built in 1933. The place is currently getting a revamped but we managed to get a couple of different angles of the dam wall.

We then found a spot for the night at Potters Gorge another terrific National Park campsite. We promptly got the fire going and kept ourselves warm for the rest of the day.