wildflowers

I have many times attempted to grow a flower garden with mixed success.  For the past week however my ‘flower garden’ has been all I could ever dream of.  We have spent the last 10 days staying in the various rest areas between Carnarvon and Northampton (about 300kms) and have been fortunate to have wild flowers growing all around us. 

As we stayed up to 3 nights at a couple of the areas we took advantage of being able to go for a walk along the tracks out of the rest area (we think an old road at one) and the flowers in bloom were just there for our enjoyment.  Driving along the highway you would catch a glimpse of colour at various times but being able to really stop and just wander was a whole different experience.  Needless to say the camera finger was kept busy trying to record all the different varieties we came across. 

Hopefully one day I might be able to name them all.  This certainly is the time to be driving through WA and as we are making a list of the places to visit next time, we now know many of the freebies and will certainly do the trip September / October.  Many of the freebies have toilets and dump sites whilst others have water.  We were able to fill our tanks in both Port Hedland and then Carnarvon so we were able to do at least a week without worrying about needing water. 

This last stop before Northampton has tanks so the washing has been done and we have only used our own water for drinking and cooking.  Northampton will be our next ‘fill the tanks’ and that should take us to Perth. 

We are heading into Northampton this Saturday (15^th) to check out the ‘airing of the quilts’ along the main street.  This will be the end weekend of the school holidays so we can then head down towards Geraldton, again catch up on shopping etc, before heading inland a little and then down to Perth, checking out wildflowers and free camps along the way.