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.
Pink lake or more correctly and officially named, Hutt lagoon is located just behind the main dunes along the road between Northhampton and Kalbarri, about 60km south of Kalbarri and just behind the small town of Gregory. The lake is around 14km long and just over 2km wide, and as the official name suggests it’s not that far from the Principality of Hutt River, which is an independent sovereign state having succeeded from Australia in 1970.
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.
Kings park in spring time is something special. For those who don’t know, Kings park is a 1000 acre park on the western edge of Perths CBD, and one of the largest inner city parks in the world. Much of the park is natural bush land though there are large areas of gardens showcasing Western Australia’s diverse range of flora.
Strange photo to start my travels with? It was a strange night! I left Denmark and drove to Dwellingup, a small town about an hour out of Perth up in the Darling Ranges. A friend of mine owns a few acres in the bush and some friends had driven down from Perth to catch up with me on my return from the south west.
I’d only arrived there perhaps an hour earlier and we were sitting around the bonfire having a drink and chatting when there was an almighty SMASH from the highway about 400m away from us across a paddock.
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.