September 3rd
Today began our trek east and inland via the Wildflower Way. While we have constantly
been seeing magnificent wildflowers throughout the trip we had been told that
this part of the country was extra special and we could see some unusual types
that we have yet to come across.
Stopped at Mullewa at the Tourist Info Centre and asked the
guy there the question he is no doubt asked countless times a day “Where is the
best place to see the wildflowers?” He was very good humoured about the whole
thing and had a great spiel to get us going in the right direction.
We grabbed a coffee and a home-made mint slice at the local café
come general store – yummy and then started to do a wildflower walk just out of
town but didn’t complete it as it was lots of what we have already seen – we have
really been spoilt.
The big thing to see in this area are the wreath flowers so
we followed the mud map the tourist info guy had given us and hoped to be
impressed. We were!!! These flowers are like nothing we’ve seen before. On the
way to the ‘secret’ wreath flower spot we also got to see those fields covered
in blankets of pink, white and yellow flowers that I’d been dreaming about so
all in all, a successful flower seeking mission.
We drove further inland from there and arrived late
afternoon in Mount Magnet – not much there. Got a room at the Outback Gold hotel – a donga with three
rooms which was actually quite pleasant and breakfast was even included. Had dinner
at the Commercial Hotel – love outback pub grub – sensational steak and damn
good fish but couldn’t say the same for the wine!
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