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This will be an even bigger Also a big hitch, if you're heading past Kalgoorlie. Be be sure to take plenty of water, and supplies if you will be [[camping]]. In [[winter]] it does get cold at [[hitchhiking at night|night]] in the desert. (Even though you've never seen it be cold in Australia on the TV, it does happen. Don't tell anyone.) If you're heading for the east coast your best bet the quickest and comfiest option is with a truck, and if youcan get one who isn're most likely to catch such a ride t prohibited from giving lifts, one who maybe owns his own truck. You can have good luck with this just by thumbing on the roadside, as well as talking to the driver at a servo (service station) or truck/rest stop (these can be quiet though). Most trucks are carrying things to be delivered by Monday morning at their destination, so the busiest times for them leaving [[Perth]] are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday whereas you will see much fewer on a Saturday or Sunday. Trucks will not go through [[Kalgoorlie]], they cut across from Coolgardie to Norseman. If you hitch a car, they may ask if you're willing to share the driving, in which case be aware that driving on the left and through thousands of kilometers of empty road in the unchanging desert leads easily to that special kind of microsleep where one may be crash in a little tough on those who are unfamiliar with itsecond, so take it easy!

Getting out of Perth, take the train to Midland station, at the end of the line. From here take bus 320 and ask the driver to put you down on Great Eastern Hwy Before Park Rd A. There is a small paved rest stop area before the bus stop, where cars and even trucks can pull over easily, and good visibility of the road for some distance. Here you're out of the city already and should easily get a good liftat least a few km along the road to the towns of Sawyer's Valley and Baker's Hill, just be careful that people going which are good places to Northam can put you on catch a longer ride as the Bypass roadslows there for the townships. Further along is Northam, not in which the main highway bypasses (don't take a lift into the town itself, but rather stay on the bypass which is the highway). There is a decent an ok spot to stand at the second turnoff to Northam, if they don't mind taking a slightly longer roadbut it is just by the highway and people tend to be driving by fast.

The bus only goes once an hour from Midland, mostly at the half-hour but you may want to check in advance to avoid a long wait. You'll be getting off in Zone 3, so plan your bus/train ticket accordingly. Midland train station is also a famously bad area of Perth, so take care of your stuff and yourself, and don't be there at nightif you can help it. But you'll be fine in the daytime and there are usually police around somewhere. Just be aware also that if you look too scruffy, drivers may hesitiate to pick you up on account of this.