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Happiness Is The Road
After brekky it was time to leave Perth and the Karrinyup Waters Resort. We were quite sad to leave as we had been here for 16 nights but we were also excited about more adventures to come. We will be back in Perth again towards the end of September. I was very much looking forward to revisiting the south west and Jay was excited to be going there for the first time. Our journey out of Perth took us down the Mitchell Freeway to the city, then onto the Graham Farmer Freeway which goes through the Northbridge tunnel underneath the city centre, across the Swan River towards the eastern suburbs and then away through the hills out into the bush. We were soon spotting Kangaroos near the road and the highway got quieter and quieter the further we got from Perth. The weather was glorious, about 18 degrees, and with a gorgeous blue sky. We headed east through Brookton, Corrigin and onto Hyden. It was about 350 kilometres to Hyden and this was the longest journey we had done in ages. In less than an hour of setting out we had covered more kilometres than in the entire 16 days we had been in Perth. It was good to be back on the road though especially one as quiet as this. We hardly saw any other vehicles on the way to Hyden and the ones we did see were wavers. It seemed that we we were back on waving roads. They seemed to be a very friendly bunch out here. In just under four hours we got to Hyden and the Wave Rock Resort which is just outside the town. We checked in at the caravan park which was right next to the rock. After some lunch we went for a walk. We decided to heighten our anticipation and excitement at seeing Wave Rock and leave that until tomorrow when we'd have more time to do the walking trails. Instead we had a walk to Lake Magic. On the way we went past the perimeter of the Wave Rock Wildlife Park and what we saw upset us. We could see through the fence emus, grey kangaroos, white kangaroos and the saddest looking wombat. Although the emus and kangaroos had some room to roam in they didn't have that much space and compared to animals we have seen naturally in the wild they didn't look as healthy or happy. The wombat though was in a very small enclosure and looked extremely sad and bored. We wanted to rescue him and set him free. I think it is cruel to keep wild animals in captivity for tourists to maul and gawp at. It must be awful for the poor animals to have noisy people woop wooping their way round and disturbing them. No wonder they all looked so traumatised. They also had birds in cages which is totally unacceptable. Wild animals and birds should be completely free. If people want to see native Australian animals they should travel round the country like us and see them all in their natural habitat completely free to be wild and live a happy life. We walked away from the wildlife park unable to get our heads free of the thought of that poor sad wombat. The walk to Lake Magic took us through an eerie landscape of small salt lakes and dead trees. It was spookily beautiful and the amazing cloud formations made the scene even more incredible. The lake itself was completely still and surrounded by this eerie splendour. We got some great photos and soaked up the magic before heading back to the caravan park to get our tea. We had a wave to catch tomorrow.
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