WE WERE back in amongst the ranges and I couldn’t be happier. With permission from a friend, who had given us approval to camp on her property, we poked along the Glass Gorge Road north of the historic town of Blinman.
The town owes its existence to the discovery of copper back in 1859 and, while there were many other discoveries of that ore in the surrounding hills and valleys, Blinman managed to survive longer and more substantially than most. Today there’s a pub offering camping and accommodation, a nearby café, and the Blinman Underground Experience, which is a tour of the old mine workings that’s well worth doing.
When we passed through, the café and pub were doing a roaring trade with parking near impossible to find in the short main street. It was the busiest I’ve ever seen the town, so with that we drove on, getting our permission to camp before wandering on through the low, rugged ramparts of Glass Gorge.
Just off the road we checked out a small, ‘interesting’ monument which is, by all accounts, a signpost to another universe. While I’m not saying I understood any of what the small marble monument was about (or its website: ), it does indicate that there are people out there on a different planet
