spent a few weeks in wittenoom back in the seventies when it was still an open town, had a good look round the gorges, swam in dales gorge (what a climb) went to the main lookout etc. incredible place. the mine site was closed even then and a bulldozer had pushed a great wall of dirt across the road to keep people out. since then of course the whole place is shut down, but some of the gorges are still accessible from the far end away from town i believe. the gorges are incredible and a must see if you want to see w.a. just a long very hot drive to get there. my old carburetter 4wd got vapourlock and was stuck under 60 k/h most of the way in and most of the way back to north west coastal highway. but wouldn't have missed it for anything,
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