Watch the above video to see this incredible landscape just a few hours from Perth, Western Australia!
Australia’s Golden Outback
We drove into Western Australia’s Golden Outback, stopping at some highlights along Great Eastern Highway and found an awesome spot at the Baandee salt flats for taking pictures and flying the drone.
The journey was filled with so much varying landscapes and colour, ending with a visit to my cousin and his family at their farm.
The Big Camera museum in Meckering
Being obsessed with cameras, of course I had to stop here at the The Big SLR Camera museum in Meckering!
The outside of the building is kind of cool as it’s a big tin shed with a ring on the front, painted to look like a big camera – hence the name!
Unfortunately it’s closed on Wednesdays and Thursday though so I didn’t get to look inside.
We took a few photos there too, like a bit of a camera inception!
Meckering Earthquake site
The town of Meckering had one of the most powerful earthquakes in Australia in 1968.
The magnitude 6.5 earthquake damaged 60 of the 75 houses in the tiny country town and there are still remnant around you can look at, like the ruins of the historic Snook family home.
The property is sign posted and laid out like a tourism landmark and you can enter the grounds, however there is a gate with a sign that reads ‘enter at your own risk’. You can see footage of this in my vlog at the top of this post!
The Ettamogah Pub in Cunderdin
This wacky walled building was designed by a cartoonist, Ken Maynard, in NSW.
The popularity led to it become a chain pub, with the third one opening in the small country town of Cunderdin in Western Australia.
The timber building has sloped walls and looks just like a cartoon drawing!
It was the perfect pitstop on our journey along the Great Eastern Highway to stop in for a cold beverage!
Baandee Salt Lakes
I’d never seen salt flats before so when I was researching the Golden Outback area to decide the best places to stop on Great Eastern Highway, and found out there were salt lakes literally on the side of the highway, this was an absolute must!
The lakes had no water in as it was the end of Summer but they weren’t completely dry so the texture under my bare feet was squishy, which was not what I imagined!
It was the perfect place to put up the drone and test out my new polarising ND filters for the Mavic Pro. The footage turned out so cool, so watch the video at the top of this post, or click here.
North Baandee wheat farm
The final stop on our road trip into the Golden Outback was at my cousin’s farm in North Baandee.
Their home is nestled amongst wheat and canola fields and just after we arrived, we were greeted with the most beautiful sunset over the freshly harvested wheat field!
My cousin Jason loves cars and has a rusty old 1948 Holden FJ Ute under a huge tree which provided the most perfect Instagram photo location!
If you live in Perth, I highly recommend jumping in the car and heading somewhere new! Many of us so often head down to Margaret River but there are so many other beautiful places to see just as close to home.
Did you see my other road trip vlog and article to Collie in the South West? That had some impressive scenery too – so check it out!
And since writing this article, and researching Australia’s Golden Outback region a little more, I’m already planning another road trip to see some more beautiful places I’ve never been before.
Where would you recommend? Let me know!
