Dandaragan

Dandaragan is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The name of Dandaragan was first recorded in 1850 as the name of a nearby gulley and spring or watering hole known as Dandaraga spring. The word is Indigenous Australian in origin and is thought to mean good kangaroo country.

Cataby to Moora, day 4, Thursday 1 November 1990. I left Cataby at 8:32. The turnoff was only about 200m down the highway. Once on the Dandaragan Road it seemed increasingly difficult to push the bike, and I thought that the previous day’s work had done me in. But after a couple of km I looked back and was rewarded with a panorama of the country behind. On long country rides I become affected by ‘hill-blindness’ and can’t often tell whether the road ahead of me is climbing, falling or level. I first noticed this in 1978, when on entering Margaret River for the first time, from the north, I couldn’t understand why the bike wouldn’t run easily ‘downhill’ from the bridge to the hotel.  ... Read more