It ultimately connects Perth with Cairns in a great diagonal shortcut that cuts thousands of kilometres (and weeks of travel) from the paved route that follows the coast for part of the way. Along the 2,700km from Laverton in Western Australia to Winton in far-off Queensland, the Outback Way passes through countless indigenous homelands, skirts isolated national parks and stops in at life-saving outback roadhouses. Tracking north-west, connecting one side of Australia to the other, the Outback Way is the most direct route through the heart of the country. And before setting out, it was difficult not to contemplate the enormity of the undertaking. Standing here nearly 70 years later, there were signs to what lay ahead: the Great Beyond Visitor Centre the Explorers Hall of Fame the big-sky views of an endless desert landscape from Windarra Lookout. The marks his bulldozers left behind in the desert sands terrified desert peoples who wondered what great animal had passed this way. One of the world's great transcontinental traverses, it was laid out by Len Beadell in the 1950s in what was surely one of the road-building achievements of the time from 1947 until 1963, Beadell forged more than 6,000km of outback tracks for the Australian government. Laverton, founded on the traditional lands of the Wongutha and Tjalkanti people, marks the starting point of the Outback Way, also known in Western Australia as the Great Central Road. After the dust settles, when darkness falls, the stars come out, more stars than seem possible. When the wind picks up, the sand turns to dust and blankets the town with a fine, coppery sheen. Tarmac roads disappear beneath the red sand long before they reach the town's outskirts. Otherwise, it is eerily, gloriously quiet. Whenever a road train rumbled through town, Laverton rouses into life. Marooned on the edge of Australia's two largest deserts – the Victoria and the Great Sandy – Laverton felt like the last outpost of frontier civilisation, a 12-hour drive from Perth, five hours from already-remote Kalgoorlie. The second and final round started Sunday at 7am with the leading groups to tee off from midday.Laverton is the kind of outback town you might expect at the end of an epic desert road trip, not at the start of one.
On the way professional#
Local Professional Brendan Smith started his event with a solid score of 72 to be one-under par and just three strokes off the lead.
With his round of four-under Hart moved to 26-under total for the Mining Towns Series, 10 clear of Power Horan with Shae Wools Cobb two strokes back in third at 14-under. €œEvery year the course gets better and better, it’s great to see.†€œIt was a very cold start made me feel like I was home. €œHaving a couple years’ experience made it a little easier knowing the course. €œIt was great to be back here,†said Power Horan, the 2019 Gippsland Super 6 champion.
On the way series#
His round of four-under 69 was matched by Anthony Choat and Tim Hart, who leads the Onsite Rental Group Mining Towns Series by 10 strokes as the Tieri Pro-Am enters its second and final day on Sunday.Īlthough they had to battle the low temperatures, the morning groups had the benefit of putting on greens with more moisture, the putting surfaces quickening as the day progressed.Ĭombined with the knowledge gleaned from previous visits to Tieri, it gave Power Horan the ideal platform from which to move to the top of the leaderboard. The temperature was in the low single digits when players teed off in the small mining town 3.5 hours west of Rockhampton, making Power Horan feel right at home.
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