We left Hopetoun and headed west to check out the sites in the Wyperfield National Park and in the Lake Albacutya Regional Park.
Wyperfield is a gem of a place, even though it's so dry, with lots of trees in open, sandy, woodland making a pleasant change from the red dirt mallee scrub which covers much of the land round here.
Lake Albacutya hasn't seen any water since 1974. It is dry 16 years in 20 on average and the "beaches", while being nice sandy stretches, are pretty useless most of the time.
It's beautifully quiet here because no-one comes here in the summer because "it's too hot".