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Wild Flowers

Posted: Sun 30 Aug, 2015 11:33 am
by Swampy
Hi All,
For those that may be interested regarding my recent trip by 4WD to Wild Flower country. I have had a couple of queries regarding the best places to visit.

The whole of the area is a sea of wildflowers and with Canola and various other farm crops maturing the road from New Norcia through Dalwallinu, Perenjori ( Wreath Flowers East of this town). From there on to Morawa and Mullewa

30 Ks East from Mullewa I was fortunate to view the beautiful Wreath Flowers in bloom.

(Mullewa Tourist Bereau has a good mud map) A 3 K walk opposite the the Mullewa Caravan Park takes you through some lovely scenery which exits in the Mullewa township.

Down the track a bit chuck a lefty out too Coals Seam Conservation Park. Beautiful and green with some beautiful sceney and a nice lookout. Continueing on this road brings you out just North of Mingenew which has a great Bakery and nice coffee.

The other town of note is Coorow where less the 500 metres East of the town centre is a Community owned farm area open to tourists and travelers to traverse through fields of Canola on one side and beautiful wildflowers in the hills on the other.Worth a short walk up the hill thru the flowers for the view. The track brings you back into town after a couple of kilometres.( This was featured in the "West Australian newspaper yesterday)

For people wanting to stay reasonably local, I took a run down around the Peel Inlet a couple of days ago and wound my way thru the back roads too Waroona. From there take the Nanga Brook Road up through too Dwellingup (Great Motorcycle Road as most of you know) From Dwellingup take Del Park Road thru too North Dandelup and home.

Lots of fresh greenery and Wattle blossoming makes for a very pleasent shorter trip.

Regards

Swampy

Re: Wild Flowers

Posted: Sun 30 Aug, 2015 1:09 pm
by Bozo
Swampy

Hanging out for a pie at the Mingenew Bakery on the way back from Gascoyne.....shut Sunday.

Bozo

Re: Wild Flowers

Posted: Sun 30 Aug, 2015 5:04 pm
by KoosWA
Thank you Swampy for the info. Appreciate the time you took to provide this.

I hope to make a trip in the next 2-3 weeks.

Re: Wild Flowers

Posted: Sun 30 Aug, 2015 6:13 pm
by bully1
some like these Swampy

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and can some smart ass tell me what his tree is, looks like someone has attacked it with a plane

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and a magnificent old farmhouse on the Yalgoo/ Morawa rd... a lot of work in these walls.

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Re: Wild Flowers

Posted: Sun 30 Aug, 2015 7:49 pm
by Bozo
Bully

The image looks like Acacia trachycarpa or the Minni Ritchi Tree
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Re: Wild Flowers

Posted: Sun 30 Aug, 2015 8:02 pm
by bully1
Bozo wrote:Bully

The image looks like Acacia trachycarpa or the Minni Ritchi Tree
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looks like it...the bark lights excellent fires :shock:

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where to next ??? :lol:


spent a bit of time watching a pair of butcher birds at work...obviously found an unmanned nest

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and spent a bit of time relaxing here

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only problem was there was a bit of this ....everywhere !!

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Re: Wild Flowers

Posted: Sun 30 Aug, 2015 8:25 pm
by Bozo
Can any one tell me what this plant is? I think it is Ptilotus crosslandii
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Re: Wild Flowers

Posted: Sun 30 Aug, 2015 9:27 pm
by Swampy
Yeah Great pics Bully, Shame I don't know how to put photo's on the forum !!

Swampy