FAWDCWA endeavours to hold at least one trip each month including day trips, social outings and extended camping trips. This is a retrospective of an extended camp trip to Melangata Station near Yalgoo.

On Good Friday eight people in seven cars met north of Bullsbrook to start our epic journey to Melangata. The journey had an inauspicious start due to the Trip Leader’s incompetence in checking her radio, but another came to the rescue and fixed it, and off we went. Five of the seven cars were towing and we hoped to have a not-too-rushed journey which would allow us to take in some sights. We travelled via Moora then the Middle Way (Midlands Rd), stopping for smoko and coffee breaks and to look at some of the sculptures at the small towns along the way. We pushed on though, leaving the wet weather behind as we headed north. We travelled via Watheroo, Marchagee, Coorow (our first collective experience of the diabolical unmanned pre-paid credit card petrol bowser), Winchester, Carnamah and Three Springs where we turned off for the Morawa-Yalgoo Road. The coffee tragics were dismayed that nowhere was open for a caffeine top-up, but that’s what you get for travelling on Good Friday.