Monday 21 May 2012

WA part 4

From the Stirling ranges it was just a short drive down to Cheynes beach next to the Waychinicup national park. It is a lovely area and the beaches are stunning with fantastic white sand and beautiful water.

Two Peoples Bay, Western Australia
Two peoples bay is very pretty and rumour has it you can even see the rock parrot there although I didn't.

Waychinicup river outlet
Waychinicup, is also extremely nice.

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Cheynes Beach

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Adelle's "quail"

While we were down south we also popped into Porongurup national park and saw a few trees, but not too many birds although it was probably to late in the day. Still very nice though.

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Rufous treecreaper

On the way back to Perth we stopped in at Collie (don't) where I got a bacon burger for $6 which was comprised of two pieces of bacon and two pieces of bread a little sauce and nothing else, before going on to wellington state forest/national park. After seeing a few nice examples of Kings skink we headed for our accommodation for the night at Evedon Park (great value for money), the gps originally wanted to take us on a long loop around the park but I talked it into taking the direct route through the park which turned out to be rather interesting with the camry displaying a surprising good ground clearance.

2 comments:

AGL said...

For some reason I have never managed to see the Rufous T - based on your photo it looks like you got pretty friendly with at least one of them! Did you see many? and where?

I am always on the hunt for good advice on where to get some high quality gourmet bacon - thanks for your very detailed report on this matter :-)

KH Allan

Jarrod said...

The Rufous treecreaper is an extraordinarily common bird and I would have seen about a hundred during the trip. There are a lot in Dryandra, which you really should go to for a week as it is great. There are also a lot in porongorup NP with about a dozen hanging around the car park which are pretty much tame and will eat from your hand.