For the first 200 km from Perth, the landscape was alien. It could have been some mesa on the Venus landscape. You just don't see these kind of plants, that are on the cusp of being desert dwellers, astride, on the other side, the lush verdant are of the south west of Western Australia.
was driving on.
The vegetation had that cactus feel about it.
Now that's another alien landscape.
Deserts are notorious for them.