above old doodlakine carpark area, below the goldenpipe line road
followed in the footsteps of hunt, a explorer i just put his great but short life story on explorer page. we visited a well he constructed nearly 150 years ago, then followed in a car the track mostly still dirt road for around 100km back to our house. visited bandee, a town that was lost to time, swallowed by a salt lake now but abandoned in the 1970's as motor vehicle transport made my town and kellerberrin a bigger more convient place to shop and live. found a snake that decided to attack our car, scared the crap out of us, we on a salt dried sand track doing 40km a hour and spotted it at last second as it lunged at the front of the car, teach us for watching out for bunny holes and bunnies. found numerous great locations to go detecting, will try doodlakine for sure, the old doodlakine town site is a few km from the current town which is also in rapid decline so may one day be abandoned as well. the old town goes back to 1867 when a well was formed and by 1901 had a small town around it, which is now just a few acres of open land surrounded by granite outcrops and woodlands. was a overnight camp ground for the early gold pioneers and farming pioneers who used the well to stock up on water and rest the animals. the area around well is soft sand, the rest of the site i found was granite and hard clay. i think i need a pick, will look for small one, i have a large one already for my garden but that looks a bit industrial to be carrying around with me.
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