The 1st day of spring or Wattle day, but so much more, follow the link….
How fast is the year going, September already and W A is bursting into flower. We are really enjoying walking through the bush and finding whats flowering at the moment. Chris found these cute little snail orchids in one of the reserves.
so many different species of wattle out now.
Another new plant to us is the upside down Pea, or Rosella bush. The flowers bloom under the bush ,not on top.
On one of our drives with Mary and Steve, we came across an old falling down hospital, and other buildings and machinery sheds.
Then we found what we had been looking for, Beautiful wreath flowers along the edge of the roads in the Goodlands area.
They are very rare and can only be found in a few places. Just beautiful and tourists travel around to see them each year.
There is also many flowering shrubs out at the moment.
As we travelled back to Kalannie late in the afternoon we looked for the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. No such luck.!
How’s this for an unusual tractor or whatever, young Chris had picked it up and unloaded in their yard. The older Chris loves seeing interesting pieces of machinery. All in a days work for the guys here.
It was father’s day last Sunday so we had a nice brunch at a little Cafe in Goomalling.
Chris and I were out and about, just wandering around. Going to lookouts finding more orchids and paddocks of Cape weed, which they seem to be feeding off to the sheep.lots more spider orchids as well.
I love these twinning fringed lilies, so dainty.
Gum trees are also in bud and ready to burst into flower.
We had had a nice weeks stay with Steve and Mary, so we hooked the van up and went to stay near Wongan Hills. It’s a larger town where I was able to get in to see a doctor about my back pain. He was great and ordered scans and xrays ,which I can get on Friday.
As the sign says there are tracks and trails all around this area and very popular with tourists looking for wildflowers.
Mt O’Brien lookout gives great views out over the lakes and we stayed on the edge of Lake Ninan last Sunday night.
lots of huge mosquitoes out here.,but a nice sunset to finish off Fathers day.
One note,” is a nice Cafe to stop for a cuppa . Chris got to have a chat with one of his favourite birds, I guess the owners are old musos, hence the name of the shop and the wall hangings. Nicely done and the coffee was hot.
Another walk and I was lucky enough to find some enamel orchids, they are a shiny purple and look like they have just been sprayed with enamel paint.
This is the first kangaroo paw we have found in the wild so far ,no doubt there will be more as it gets hotter.
That’s it for now…