Mullewa to Eneabba:

From Mullewa we went to Morawa (all these M towns are confusing) via Canna. Canna consists of a store, a church and a hall (which used to be a school). It is an area where there are lots of the elusive orchids. A short walk revealed numerous cowslip orchids (which are the most common) but it is really exciting to find them in the wild.
We found the caravan park in Morawa a lovely quiet country CP and it was a well presented town. We had a look around the town which has a lovely church designed by Monsignor Hawes.His buildings are so impressive and he even built a tiny stone hut that he could sleep in on his visits to the town. He rode his bicycle from Mullewa to Morewa and other parishes in the district and covered incredible amount of miles. There was a very interesting museum but unfortunately it was closed so we were only able to poke around in the yard.

We went for a drive through the countryside the following day and we finally came to a good display of the reef flowers.


From Morawa we headed to the Coalseam Conservation Park
which was prolific in wildlife and carpets of wildflowers. This is where the first coal was discovered in WA but unfortunately it wasn’t good enough quality to be profitable so although a mine was started it was soon abandoned. There are lots of wild flowers here as we as lots of birds and it is very peaceful. The last night we were here we had quite a heavy storm which washed through our site.

From here we headed to the coast and on the drive there we encountered the most amazing and prolific wattle on the side of the road. For about 30 klms we were treated to bright yellow wattle spilling down on to the side of the road. As the road was rather narrow we felt like we were almost in a tunnel of wattle. Unfortunately we were unable to stop because of the narrow road but managed to get a photo while travelling along. The wattle was interspersed by other wild flowers. We also came across a massive wind farm that has wind 52 turbines. No wonder – it always seems to be windy!!


Greenough is renowned for its leaning trees because of the force of the wind and is just south of Geraldton.



I explored a wonderful historic village which consisted of 2 churches, a hall a police station which also housed a gaol, courthouse, and a community room. There is a convent and some settler’s houses. All the buildings have been restored and the churches and the hall are still used.

From here we headed south to Dongara –Port Denison which is a peaceful little
fishing village. All these towns are famous for their crayfish in the season which is in November. It was a beautiful day so we cycled right along the pretty foreshore which was really good exercise as it is quite hilly.

From here we found a great little free camp right beside the sea. There is a lot of limestone in the area so the cliffs have lots of caves. There was lots of sea grass on the shore and we find it extraordinary that there are no waves. We were able to have a fire which was great. It rained that night so we were lucky we had such a nice day.



Our next stop we headed inland to the Western Flora Caravan Park near Eneabba which is famous for its wildflowers.