Harris Dam

The rain now appears to be over. As luck would have it, I was offered the loan of some rubber boots which are specially for women and with a warm lining. So together wth the borrowed rain jacket I was prepared for anything. We visited both the top of the Harris Dam wall, where there was a huge valve on display. It had been used to control the water coming out of the dam.

Then we drove to a picnic area at the bottom of the dam wall, where a little walk was planned. This was directly on the Bibbulmun Track. The group thought they could walk 3kms to the Harris Hut before lunch, but had not accounted for the terrain with its elevations both up and down. There had been a recent fire and the track had been closed while the fire was extinguished, I don't know what the walkers would have done at that point.

It was sunny and the forest looked lovely. We drove home to the cottages, stopping on the way at the bottom of the Wellington Dam wall to admire the murals once more, but from a different angle.

Back at the cottages, we were sitting outside having a cup of tea when Don received a phone call from Tanya and Mike. They had gone into Collie to charge their electric car, but discovered that the charging point would not fit their car. They had to call the RAC who arranged for a low loader to transport the car to Harvey, where there was a compatible charger. All this would take hours. In fact, they didn’t come back for the night, which must have been spent in Harvey. The incredible thing is that exactly the same thing happened to them before at another Nats trip to Dryandra and Narrogin. Who knew about this compatibility problem with e cars?

Val and I had the cottage to ourselves and I cooked some lamb shanks in the slow cooker.