We shifted camp after our one night in Kendenup - 28 kms up the road to Cranbrook . The weather forecast wasn't looking very good at all . Tomorrow was looking decidedly wet and cold - they got the forecast right for a change unfortunately . At midnight the temperature was 11.6 degrees - and that was the maximum temperature for the day - it was all down hill from there , it went down to 3 degrees at 6am , and went all the way up to 8 degrees during the day !! There was snow on top of Bluff Knoll apparently - we chilled out for the day and stayed warm !
After another cold night - down to 3 degrees again - we decided to go for a drive out to Frankland River - a small village to the west of us .
This drive is also part of an old droving route - farmers used to drove their cattle to the sale yards along this road , it would take them 3 to 4 days to go the 30 or 40 klms from their farms . Along the way they constructed watering holes , mainly for their horses , this one is 12 mile dam . The next 2 photos show the watering trough and the water hole . The waterhole was usually fenced off and there was a slip rail to tie the horses up to while the drovers got water in buckets and poured it into what looks like a small chimney , it then flows down a pipe into the trough .
This next one is 27 Mile Dam , still incorporating the post & rail fencing , it has a similar set up to 12 Mile , but the piping was longer this time , going about 6m to the drinking trough .
From Frankland River we headed to Rocky Gully , dodging rain showers by sheer luck rather than good management . Rocky Gully was even smaller than Frankland River , so we kept driving . Our main goal today was to visit a couple of lakes , that meant going a zigzag pattern back towards where we'd come from . The first one is Lake Poorrarecup - there's camping here and they also water ski - it's down a bit in level but still looks good . There were people camped here and a ski boat in the water - no-one skiing though , the windchill would have been horrific !
We found Nunijup lake , also with some camping there , but it was cold , wet & windy , so we drove through , had a look , and headed for home . Here's map link :- https://drive.google.com/open?id=1utx7O4szYTePCPb6mNffXpxGHunXmU5x&usp=sharing
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