What time is it there?!

Having 'marvelled' at Dog Rock you'd have to wonder why we then decided to drive 350km to see Wave Rock. No prizes for guessing what it looks like..... Everything around here is so far apart that after a while a few hundred kilometres seems quite a reasonable distance to go to see a rock! Fortunately it is actually quite impressive once you get there.

We were going to stay locally but as we'd made good time we decided to start our journey north. So for the first time in our trip so far we headed off down the road with no idea where we were going to spend the night. One candidate was the town of Corrigin, it didn't turn out to be our stop for the night but it did boast a couple of tourist 'attractions'.

The first is the dog cemetery, another unambiguously named place. Some years ago a local man buried his dog here and then, for reasons which are not entirely clear, everyone wanted a go. So now there are dozens of them (apparently people travel from miles around now).

The second attraction is actually an event, but it continues the canine theme. Corrigin is home to 'Dog in a Ute', for which we were unfortunately a few weeks early. For the uninitiated a Ute (being short for 'utility vehicle' I think) is basically the Aussie version of the pickup truck, although many of them actually seem to be based on the Ford Sierra.

Anyhow, Dog in a Ute essentially involves trying to break the previous record for the largest convoy of, er, dogs in utes. Why this is necessary is once again unclear, but its future as an event seems safe as there appears to be a fierce rivalry between Corrigin and some town in Victoria that does the same thing. The current record (held by with immense pride by Corrigin) is just over 1500. Yes, that's right, one thousand five hundred pooch carrying pickups in a row. The assembly area is several kilometres away and apparently when the first trucks reached town the last ones had yet to leave the field. If anyone wants to know more (or enter) I'm sure the website has full details!