check out the new remote control Jockey Wheel SmartBar rearview170 Beam Communications SatPhone Shop Topargee products
Members Login
Username 
 
Password 
    Remember Me  
Click here for the Grey Nomads website -> The Grey Nomads Forum -> Solo Grey Nomads -> Heading to Mt Magnet WA
Post Info TOPIC: Heading to Mt Magnet WA
spida


Guru

Status: Offline
Posts: 1192
Date:
Heading to Mt Magnet WA
Permalink  

On the road again after a collapsed idler bearing, a ride in a tow truck and 2 very cool and windy nights at a CP in Geraldton. Ute all fixed now so off to meet up with my travel companions. Off to Mt Magnet then Leinster - Kalgoorlie and back to Perth.

RAC insurance covers - EITHER tow truck OR accommodation/hirecar to value of your package. I have ultimate so up to $3000 per year. Was rather surprised when I rang after being towed as to what else - nodisbeliefevileyeconfusefurious My 120km tow basically was all available but had I broken down in town the car/accommodation would have been the option!



__________________

'Once you are infected with the travel bug you have it for the rest of your life - there is NO cure'

http://hukaroa.blogspot.com.au

 
Duh


Guru

Status: Offline
Posts: 3240
Date:
Permalink  

Glad your back on the road again Spida, sounds like a good time to be visiting the areas you are going to.

Geraldton is know as the "windy city" because of the continual blowy conditions, I even read a report years ago that they had one of the highest suicide rates in WA and the continual winds had some connection with the mental state of those who did it.

Mind you, WA in general can be pretty windy along the coast and anyone who has experienced the "wind tunnel" in St Georges Terrace in Perth would know what that was like.   Pretty tough on the girls too having to hold their skirts down, although I don't think the young blokes in the city mind too much, LOL ! smile



__________________

Vic  - Mitsubishi Outlander and rear end tent....

 

 

 



 
GypsyBob


Veteran Member

Status: Offline
Posts: 53
Date:
Permalink  

Spida - The local pronunciation of Mt Magnet is to drop the "Mt" and the 'n' is silent so the name is pronounce a "Maggot". Not sure what the Kiwi translation is though, maybe Muggit? This is a nice time to be in a part of the world that's pretty ordinary most of the time. I had sisters living in Maggot for a decade or two so I could tell a few tales of the place ....

Sandstone can be nice and I've driven the Leinster to Kal road when the bush from horizon to horizon was nothing but a bed of wildflowers with two tyretracks running through it :)

__________________
lizard


Veteran Member

Status: Offline
Posts: 97
Date:
Permalink  

My late mothers family were on Mt Farmer station , west of Magnet , back in the 50's and 60's ..... I was only a kid then ....barely remember anything .....

__________________
HAPPINESS is a journey, not a destination. So work like you don't need the money, Sing like no-one is listening, Love like you've never been hurt & Dance like no one's watching
Dunmowin


Guru

Status: Offline
Posts: 6555
Date:
Permalink  

spida wrote:

On the road again after a collapsed idler bearing, a ride in a tow truck and 2 very cool and windy nights at a CP in Geraldton. Ute all fixed now so off to meet up with my travel companions. Off to Mt Magnet then Leinster - Kalgoorlie and back to Perth.

 

 Enjoy spida, want full report on your return



__________________

Pay it forward - what goes around comes around

DUNMOWIN is no longer on the road and still DUNMOWIN!  
Page 1 of 1  sorted by
 
Quick Reply

Please log in to post quick replies.
Click here for the Grey Nomads website -> The Grey Nomads Forum -> Solo Grey Nomads -> Heading to Mt Magnet WA
Tweet this page Post to Digg Post to Del.icio.us
Purchase Grey Nomad bumper stickers Read our daily column, the Nomad News The Grey Nomad's Guidebook