I’ve got almost a week to fill while in Perth as I wait for a service on my car before heading bush so today I headed up to Wireless Hill in Ardross. Nestled in the southern suburbs of Perth it covers 99 acres of bush land which was the site of a radio telegraphy station in 1912.
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.
Boat harbour is about 30 kilometres west of Denmark, the small road off the main highway is easy to drive for the first five kilometres or so but then the track becomes four wheel drive only for the final half of the track. If you like visiting places that are out of the way and not part of the normal tourist route, then the trip is well worth it.
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.
Point Hillier is a huge headland about 20kms west of Denmark, the headland is an obvious landmark from many of the local beaches in the area. The east side of Point Hillier consists of Hillier Bay and Parry’s beach a sometimes windy, sometimes strewn with piles of seaweed, beautiful beach. There’s four wheel drive access to the beach and you can then drive all the way around to Mazoletti beach and William bay so long as Parry inlet has it’s sand bar closed.