Kalbarri is a coastal town about 600km north of Perth at the mouth of the Murchison river, it’s predominantly a holiday town and the population swells almost ten fold during holiday seasons. It’s also well known for it’s stunning cliffs and gorges within the Kalbarri national park as well as an incredible range of plant life found within the park and surrounding bush areas.
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The pinnacles are limestone formations found in the Nambung national park about 14km south of the town of Cervantes about 200km north of Perth. I’d highly recommend Cervantes as a base to stay if your coming up this way to see wildflowers and/or the pinnacles, I’ve been here for 5 days now and it’s very laid back, a little windy perhaps but beautiful weather.
Lesueur national park is around 200km north of Perth in Western Australia and is internationally known as a biodiversity hot spot. Within the park there are over 900 species of plants, that’s around 10 percent of all plant species within W.A. in the one national park. Now I’d read all about this and one of my wildflower books recommended it as a “must see” place in spring time, so I headed up there arriving just after dawn.
If you missed part one of Wireless Hill or Kings Park, please use these links to view them first. When you’re on a good thing it often takes more than one trip to see everything and get all the photos you want and I went back to kings park and wireless hill to explore more and take some more pictures. I managed to find 3 different spider orchids and about 8 orchids all up at wireless hill but I’m not going to try and identify them all, my book has about 150 different spider orchids alone and many look very similar.
The photography opportunities down here in Denmark are surprisingly great considering it’s been winter and the weather’s been rather wet and miserable. This picture above shows a local Drosera plant which has captured an insect, then the over night rains have created an interesting bubble of water around the captured insect.
I went into Albany today to get my car window fixed after my Nullaki walk the other day. I decided to spend a few hours in town with the macro lens checking out some of the plant life, these photos are the result.
Yep, finally time for me to buy proper reading glasses, cheap supermarket ones just weren’t cutting it any more. The same day I picked up my new reading glasses I had also collected a couple of litres of shell grit earlier from Parry beach. That night I sat down with a few bowls, put on some music and picked through the shell grit looking for whole shells and this was the result.
