An inspiring circuit through the rolling hills north east of Northam, taking in the Katrine and Irishtown roads to the locality of Irishtown. Turning east on Haddrill Road, you climb the hill where my grandmother and her brothers lost control of their horse and cart on the way to school from their Wongamine farm, a few kilometres away. At 18 km you turn right on to the gravel; McPherson Road and then Chitibin Road. Just after you cross the narrow gauge railway line, there was once the Chitibin grain receival point but, like all of the small sidings, it was taken out of service many years ago. Farmers now use much bigger machinery to harvest and transport the grain to larger receival points, as you will see when I pass a couple of wheat trucks on this ride. The driver of the semi-trailer I encounter on the dirt Chitibin Road, who enshrouded me in dust, later catches me in his ute (pick-up) just outside Northam, stopping to apologise for not slowing down as he passed. Apology accepted I roll back down Doctors' Hill and into town. Northam is home to over 180 heritage-listed buildings, the second-highest number of anywhere in Western Australia (after Fremantle) and many are visible as I pedal along the main street, Fitzgerald Street, past the Post Office and up Gordon Street. Northam is home to over 180 heritage-listed buildings, the second-highest number of anywhere in Western Australia (after Fremantle) and many are visible as I pedal along the main street, Fitzgerald Street, past the Post Office and up Gordon Street.