Seashalia: 21 - Geraldton to Western Flora Park, Eneabba 7-11th Sept 2012

7-11th Sept 2012

We spent last weekend in Geraldton. The church was having a Regional meeting. There was a very good speaker whom we could have listened to all day. A great delight. He challenged just about everyone - nonstop.

The following day we took off on 300 fairly fruitless kilometres looking for wild flowers, firstly to Mullewa where I had preached when I was a College student. The town was so dry, everything was shrivelling up and dying. The best we did was a couple of fields of Everlastings, which were about 7 cm tall. We drove through the wheat belt country, it was pretty with some very interesting land formations.

10th September 2012

We left then for Eneabba, a Western Floral Caravan Park. The Manager there is an expert on Botany and the WA wild flowers in particular. We did a long walk with him in the evening and the following day we did a 4 WD tag-along trip over hill and dale, through sand dunes and roads, until we were exhausted from photographing wild flowers. We stopped at about ten places, with different plants.

I found the only Black Kangaroo Paw out there. Early in the piece we pulled over whilst an enormous shower of rain covered the whole area, and we sat there for half an hour until it had rained itself out. Eventually we were out on the trails under blue skies.

We brought home a treasure-trove of fabulous photos, wild flowers galore. You just need the right guide to take you.

Hope you enjoy our trip with us with a few of the wild flowers.