Raminea Plains

Monday 31st March 2014

Esperance River

The aim of today's exercise was to explore the Raminea Plains area and Esperance River and to follow an abandoned railway line. As it turned out, it did not all go to plan. I had intended to start the walk just off Adamsons Road, but I had also heard from somewhere that there was a locked gate on this road. This was the case, and just off the highway too, so I wasn't going to walk the 4.7 kms. to where I wanted to start. I drove back to Esperance River Road and followed this until I came to an old abandoned side road and parked here.
I set off, and after covering about 1 km. on an old overgrown track, I came to the Esperance River. I had to search up and down the river to try and find a decent place to cross.

Crossing the Esperance

I eventually found a good place and managed to get across without falling in or getting wet boots. I was quite surprised by the river as it was rather a picturesque little stream.
Now the fun started. I was trying to find the old railway, but all I could find was scrub, and after bashing through it for sometime, I did locate what appeared to be where the line had been. The only way I knew this is because there were a couple of cuttings carved out of the earth. It was so overgrown that it was difficult to tell it apart from the surrounding bush. I persevered for some time but it got the better of me so I opted to head out to the plains where I hoped for better conditions. This proved to be the case, as once I battled through some thick scrub I came to the open plains.

Adamsons Peak and Mesa from Raminea Plains

The views of the surrounding mountains from here were amazing - much better than I had anticipated. I came across an old track that I was expecting to find and walked along this for about 1 km. before it disappeared into thick scrub and became too difficult to bash through. At this stage I decided to abandon any further sorties and retraced my steps, with a few variations, back to the car. It was not a favourite walk due to the scrub bashing but the river and the views from the plain were good.


Distance: 6.3 kms.
Time: 3'45"
Ascent: 100 metres
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Esperance River

Esperance River

Esperance River

Hartz Mountains from Raminea Plains

Esperance Peak from Raminea Plains