The Great Central Road

12/07 and 13/07

Here are on the Great Central Road. This mystical and quite unknown road which cross the Great Western Australia for 1119km from Dock River to Laverton.
Amazingly enough, we crossed quite a lot of vehicles (1 every 2 hours ?) all along the way. Fuel is well supplied every 220km on average amounting nonetheless 2.5aud/ liter (We noticed up to 2.6aud/L in Warakurna).
All along the way, we notice 117 tyres and 35 abandoned vehicles, among which an abandoned tow truck (with an a car on it ^^).

The drive lasted 2 days, we have the very deranging experience to sleep in Warburton which is a small aborigines city. We arrived around 6.30pm, everything was closed, including the petrol station, the roadhouse and the police station. There was a camping park, which was also closed. We had clearly no where to sleep. We hesitated to set up a camp on the parking area, fearing to commit an offence and upset the locals. I decided to go knocking on a house with light inside (which basically means there is at least one person in). The trick is that I just never found the entry door, but several iron gates with no ringer. Then I decided to ring the Police Station, no answer as well. I then rang another house next door in which I saw clearly the living room inside with full light (no iron gates or jail things...), again, nobody.
What was really frightening in this town was not the fact that we didn't meet anybody. We would have named it a ghost town. It was that some houses were lighted and we still found nobody. It looked more like a zombie town or a town in which something sudden and apocalyptic happened in the hour before we arrive.

We finally met a group a aborigines on the street and I asked where we could sleep. They indicated us the parking area behind the petrol station. We didn't dare to set up the camp, we just took our sleeping bags, laid down the front seats and watched a movie with Pierre's mac book. We saw "Safe", an excellent Statham  movie. We then definitely fell asleep "safe".

Charles

Below, Pierre