Thursday 27th November – Cloudy – sunny patches – warm—gentle breezes

The evening thunderstorm skirted around us, but brought steady rain late afternoon and during the night.  It wasn’t blowing so we could have all the windows open with the awnings out, just the way to have rain vertical and not horizontal.  This morning was cloudy but fine.  This afternoon has turned out the same with late rain and thunder.  Once the thunder rumbles, the sheep, start bleating.  

After breakfast and late into the morning, we headed off to the Lol Gray Picnic Area, for morning tea and a walk.  We had a bit of trouble trying to locate the picnic area, and after giving up decided to just do a random track drive and stumbled upon it.

I don’t know much about Mr. Lol-Gray, so will have to look it up when we get internet again. Unfortunately there isn’t a information board about him.  This looks like a fire tower and was originally done in 1930 – and was restored in 1986, it is still in fine form for 84 years! Although the surrounding trees are now taller.

 

 

 

 

This is our totem to follow for the walk.  What do they mean by difficult?  I bet that this puts many people off a great walk.

It was mostly a even path all the way, going down the hill you just needed to be careful with the very round ball bearing shaped pebbles which are everywhere here and at the end of the walk you had to walk up the hill, hardly difficult. They should describe the walk so you know what to expect and give you a gradient for the uphill climb, then you have enough information to know whether you want to give it a go.

We took the hour for the 3.2 km and that involved stopping all the time for photos.  Lovely wildflowers still flowering.

This is a little mound shape groundcover, and is on my list to have at home, once I find out what it is. 

 

They are the most intricate flowers and lovely leaf shape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WA does wildflowers superbly

Believe it or not, these flowers are black with rust tips.  They look like scrubbing brushes.

 

 

 

 

This ant is colour matched with the plant. It looks like a meat ant and nippers to match.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The bees were going crazy around this plant. They were everywhere and ignoring other plants, but I couldn’t smell any fragrance and the flower is very non descript. Obviously lots of pollen.

The smallest flowers seem to have the most intricate detail.

We have seen and heard the Carney’s Cockatoo (Black/White), the call is really funny and sounds like “where are you” as dusk settles and they try and find each other to settle down for the night.

Good steady rain with thunder overhead. The storm had moved through by 5.30pm after about 1 1/2 hrs of rain. After the rain stopped, we went out for a wander around and spotted a few birds and found the large open area where the sheep are.  That explains the flies.