And here is the Collie River on the edge of the town

Here is the Premier Coal Mine just outside of Collie. The town was named Collie after the first English Explorer to pass through in the early days of the Swan River Colony c1830.

Poor old Williams River has barely enough water to fill a bath, but the Collie and Hotham Rivers were both substantial where I crossed them

This part of the wheatbelt is full of river valleys and small streams- its also got coal, bauxite and gold mining. Saw many flocks of shorn and unshorn sheep, some cattle and horses and even some water buffalo!

Took a road trip today through some lovely, if parched, countryside around Quindanning, Williams, Darkan and Collie. Early May and its still in the high 20sC, so not many farm dams have water. Here are some videos, starting on Lower Hotham Road

The tourist train at Busselton Jetty slow trundles to its terminus at the end of the longest Jetty in the Southern Hemisphere