West Australian Postcodes And Towns.

There was a time up till recently when I would trim up close to the stamp when removing it from a cover. Now I have been influenced by you lot and now I keep the cancel too. So I thought I would share a few W.A towns with you.



Some are a bit difficult to read, so the towns represented here are..

6244 Boyup Brook
6798 Christmas Island
6350 Dumbleyung
6392 Darkan
6728 Derby
6461 Dowerin
6609 Dalwallinu
6393 Duranillin
6765 Fitzroy Crossing
6460 Goomalling
6055 Guildford (Suburb, not town)
6047 Guilderton
6367 Kondinin
6743 Kununurra
6353 Lake Grace
6044 Lancelin
6415 Merredin
6479 Mukinbudin
6355 Newdegate
6566 Toodyay
6612 Wubin
6485 Wyalkatchem

This last one was too nice to even cut up, in fact I received two identical covers one month apart.

6365 Kulin



Now you can see why I volunteer to go fetch the mail each morning.

Steve

Here is a list of early W.A. post offices - no idea if it's accurate:

http://www.pbbooks.com/cr67.htm

Know them all ! (excepting Christmas Island)

Cycle to Darkan, Dumbleyung is a 90Km cycle ride.
Lake Grace, doing it this year (100 Km both ways)

Guildford (where Bob Hawk went to school?)


Great country towns, foodbowl of Aust
Great open roads great for cycling.

Temperatures for Christmas? 40 degrees, then 38, then 37, then 38, then 38, going to be a hot one.....

West Australia, the place Victorians wished they lived.

"West Australia, the place Victorians wished they lived."

Tell 'im he's dreamin'!

More a nightmare, really. Hell isn't other people, it's an eternity in a WA bush town ... dressed in lycra.

Not forgetting the intoxicating aroma of
mentholatum deep heat rub, Tiger Balm, or
the salty taste of Staminade in the water bottle.

Hear, or read, the wise words of that sensible old clergyman, the Reverend Sydney Smith, writing to a Miss Harcourt in July 1838:
'The summer and the country, dear Georgiana, have no charms for me. I look forward to the return of bad weather, coal fires, and good society in a crowded city. I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. I am afraid you are not exempt from the delusions of flowers, green turf, and birds; they all afford slight gratification, but not worth an hour of rational conversation: and rational conversation in sufficient quantities is only to be had from the congregation of a million people in one spot.'

and

'I have brought all my children up to town; and they are, as you may suppose, not a little entertained and delighted. It is the first time they have ever seen four people together, except on remarkably fine days at the parish church.'
Rev. Sydney Smith to Lady Mary Bennet, December 1818

I haven't been in a good bush race in years. The last time was in 1980. I was riding a mule and he through me off. I landed on my head. It didn't leave any permanent damage. It just knocked some sense into me. We were traveling to San Antonio.

I must confess, on moving to the country, I was at times,
overcome with a sense of loneliness, I knew not from whence it came.
Probably because I needed time to settle in.
Now that has happened, my jaunts up into the city amply illustrate my wise choice.
The people there appear barking mad, rushing to and fro, and if not
stuck in endless queues on the baking freeway....UGh!

I've probably mentioned it before, the best view of Perth,
is in my rear vision mirror.

Imagine what it would be like , if we lived in a big city.

Steve :)

Reading between the lines, then, Rod, I take it you won't be slithering into the lycra and wheeling out the trusty velocipede to cycle across to Australia 2013 in Melbourne next May. Pity: it promises to be a great show.

No I won't Tony, sorry,
I do think it will be a cracker, and expect you to post
an in depth review of proceedings.
Are you entering an exhibit?

About 100 Km is my limit, even then it takes 2 days to recover.
I met a German last year, I thought I was rather good cycling
70Km, he had just cycled across the Nullabor (gulp)

Melbourne will require some setting up, I trust you have volunteered.