For the annual 10th January road trip I decided to check out a bunch of new (to me) granite rocks, and whatever else with my friend Shero. She told me that we had to see Kokerbin Rock. So I suggested we make a round trip of it and drop in on Jilakin and Yeerakine Rock.
We did start nice and early but almost straight away Shero starts shouting about some sort of green lake. So we had to drop in quickly to check out the green Bandee Lake. Shero ran to the water whilst I sent the drone up for the aerial view.
It was at this stage that she may have regretted walking into the salt lake with her jeans on... Cue stiff trousers for the rest of the day. Anyway, we kept going towards Kellerberin, grabbed a quick bite and then drove south to our first official stop at Kokerbin Rock Nature Reserve. Apparently Kokerbin is the third largest monolith in Australia. What is a monolith? It's a geological feature consisting of a single massive single block of stone or rock!
Strangely, the maps at the car park, don't match the maps at the peak. For that reason, we missed out on a few of the caves and ended up walking around the whole site. It was hot, there wasn't any shade, but at least there weren't any flies. There first section was a gravel path, the second half was a pretty easy climb up the granite rock up to the peak.
We took a bunch of photos on the peak. Well, Shero took photos of me taking photos and I took photos of her eluding my photos.
We tried to find the most direct route down and back to the car, but actually ended up walking far further than we would have had we just gone back the way we came.
Number two was Jilakin Rock. We had to drive all the way to Kulin, east along the tin horse highway. Which is exactly what it says on the tin. Genius.
Jilakin Rock is a pretty easy climb and adjacent to the Kulin Bush Races on one side and the heart shaped Jilakin Lakes. If your heart is shaped like this though, you should probably see a doctor.
Yeerakine Rock was the last one, on the road towards Kondinin. The rock itself has a water tank on the peak, plus a sculpture at the top made in memory of the Kondinin locals that fought in World War I. As a hike, it was ok, just another granite rock.
