Dwellingup Wildflower Weekend

The caravan park is enormous, set amongst mature trees, with plenty of room for caravans and tents as well as lots of chalets. It is very full at the moment. Most of my group have booked into chalets and I met up with many of them at the Visitors Centre in town, where I had gone to get a better signal for posting my blog yesterday afternoon.

Now the bad news: a big group of Indians arrived after dark in several 4WDs and noisily set up camp just across from my room. They sat round their camp fire talking loudly (in Hindi, I think) for hours. At 10.15 I’d had enough and went out to ask them to be quiet. All the other people in the row of 5 Walkers Rooms next to me were actually doing the Bibbulmun Track and must have been in need of a good night’s sleep, but none of them had dared to make a move. Anyway, this morning it started to get light just after 6.00 am and all the kids on the site started playing and running around, so they got their revenge on the Indians who were still inside their tiny tents. There were also flocks of magpies chortling well before dawn. What a night!

Noisy crowd just opposite me - early this morning when nobody was stirring.

The Bibbulmun Track is celebrating 25 years

We started walking southwards on the Bibbulmun at 9.30 am.  The plan was to do about 12 kms, but those of us who wanted to do less could easily turn back when they had gone far enough. The huge trees were impressive: so many of them and so close together:

Some have been struck by lightning and simply toppled over:

Lots of wildflowers on all sides:

Bracket fungus


Emu nuts