East

Core Cider, Pickering Brook

Life gets sweeter heading inland. Just 45 minutes east from the Perth CBD is Core Cider, a cidery, restaurant and the place to pick your own fruit – seriously. During the summer months, the time is ripe for visitors to harvest their own fruit with early varieties of pears, apples and plums ready for the picking.

Location: Core Cider

Tin Horse Highway, Kulin

The outback can be sometimes become a peculiar place to find yourself in, especially when it comes to driving along parts of Lake Grace Road. This part of the outback comes to life and colour with a 15km stretch dubbed ‘Tin Horse Highway’, home to 70 quirky artworks paying homage to the region’s annual Kulin Bush Races. Expect the drive to be a stop-start affair, with many fun photo opportunities to be had along the way to your next destination.

Location: Kulin Lake Grace Road, Kulin

Avon Valley Bakery, Northam

Carbs with coffee – could you think of a more recharging road trip duo? Thankfully the Avon Valley Bakery in Northam is a pro with delivering just that with lip-smacking pies, cakes, sweets and coffee all on offer.

Take it away and make it a memorable pitstop with a visit to the Northam Silo Art, forming part of Australia’s largest open-air gallery, the PUBLIC Silo Art Trail. Eat your baked treat as you eye off the larger-than-life cartoonish abstract artworks by acclaimed international artists soaring across eight 38m high silos. An extraordinary sight to behold for a simple pitstop eat.

Location: Avon Valley Bakery

Location: Northam Silo Art