Lots of people had the same idea; it was hard to find a parking spot near the entrance and the muddy track was all churned up with 4WD’s bumping along. In addition to the real ones were these little toys:
They are called radio controlled rock crawlers; grown men spend their Sunday morning taking them to meetups on difficult terrain! This was not what I came to see in the National Park.
First the wildflowers:
Hardenbergia Native Wisteria |
Templetonia biloba? Horn-leaved Bossiaea |
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Acacia Which one? |
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… and a few fungi:
The track crosses the Bibbulmun which comes down from the left, having started in Kalamunda township:
Finally the track ends at Rocky Pool, a favourite picnic spot where little kids take life in their hands, playing on the wet and slippery rocks next to the waterfalls:
The gushing water video is on my Instagram.
Piesse Brook is an important waterway which feeds into the reservoir at Mundaring. After all the rainfall it was flowing really fast:
Much more to come this week!
Grown men can be so amusing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the pictures of flowers and water.