Bindoon

Midland to Moora, 7 day tour 1990, cumulative distance 450 km.

New Norcia to Bindoon, day 6, Saturday 3 November 1990. I left New Norcia at 7:42. The morning was fine and cool with a light headwind, which wasn’t to freshen until it didn’t matter. There were steep hills. One started near the seven mile well nature reserve. Another long climb ended in a sign saying ‘Bindoon Hill, 285m’. I had got up without stopping. I rested at 20017 and 20033. Much blue leschenaultia on the roadside.

I reached Bindoon Hotel at 10:42. It is 4km north of the town proper, so I dumped the heavy luggage and rode to the shops to get a paper, some milk and food for breakfast and some tangelos from a roadside seller. Rested back at the motel ($30 for a small room with its own plumbing but little else) then went for a walk down to the Brockman River, (flowing well) and back.  ... Read more

Bindoon to Perth, day 7, Sunday 4 November 1990. Left Bindoon at 7:51 on a sunny morning with a fresh south-easterly which was to turn south-westerly later in the day. There were to be significant headwinds all the way. I stopped at Chittering at 20072. The shop had no milk of any sort.

I rested again at 20090, and at 20106 where I watched two model planes being flown in a paddock. They achieved great height and speed. One kept doing the stall routine, where a plane cuts its engine, falls straight down and restarts in time to regain level flight.

At 20110 I turned onto West Swan Road and enjoyed a scenic run through the Swan Valley, but I was suffering increasingly from the constant headwind and various cramps.  ... Read more

Bindoon is a town located 84 kilometres (52 mi) from Perth city on the Great Northern Highway within the Shire of Chittering. The name Bindoon is thought to be Aboriginal in origin and is thought to mean “place where the yams grow”.