12^th July: Hall's Creek

Only 108 kms to Hall's Creek and we made it before Morning Tea. Unfortunately, I succumbed to a migraine – probably because I was dehydrated – and became quite incoherent. It has happened before and so I went to bed the rest of the day and drank heaps of water. My own fault!!

I told the others where to go and they went out to the China Wall, a narrow band of quartz 6 metres high vertically, and half a metre at the most thick. It is obviously an igneous intrusion in a narrow fault in sedimentary rocks. Probaby more underneath. Old Hall's Creek was where the first gold rush in WA occurred in 1885. It was alluvial and only lasted 5 years but men came from everywhere including walking from QLD. Most came in from Wyndham.

They watched the almost full moon rise and Glen took photos.

(PS I am okay this morning and Larry's car is a Hyundai not a Kia!)