Friday, October 19, 2007

Flowers in her hair, flowers everywhere

We are now in the Southwest of Western Australia, well known for wildflowers at this time of the year. So, since there are fewer exotic birds (although still a few) to photograph, Sylvia has been chasing wildflowers with her camera. We have enclosed a few for this update. I will try to list them (and post them) in alphabetical order:
Acacia tree – one of many varieties, clusters of yellow flowers
Banksia tree – blossoms look like corn on the cob
Camphor myrtle – little purple flowers
Christmas tree – yellow and green flowering tree
Flame Gravillea.

The other thing that has changed is the weather. After six weeks with nothing but blue skies and temps in the 30’s, we hit Perth and the weather changed. So, two of the last four days have been cold and wet – afternoon temps in the mid teens. So, now instead of making sure the fan is set up before we go to bed, we make sure the duvet is in place, and fight over it all night. Things are very green here, and we intend to spend the next ten days or so in this corner, before moving along the Southern Coast.







2 comments:

Unknown said...

Beautiful pictures!! Ben & I both love nature hiking especially in the mountains with our book of pictures of wild flowers etc. & see how many we can identify. As for the lizard...........I'd have been running in the opposite direction. LOL

Mike Gilgan said...

Good thing you mentioned what 'comments' was for as I hadnt noticed it and wonder how someone was to 'reply' to your story.

Looks like you have had a good trip. Norma and I did the eastern half in our tenting tour,but we didnt get to drive it which I rather missed. We took the train to Perth from Adelaide which was rather a trial as it was hot and crowded. I am surprised at your trees in the pictures of the Nulabor. All we saw was a few high bushes (ie., 4 ft instead of ca. 1 ft). We stopped at a place in the middle (the watering station for the steamer trains -- I've forgotten the name) and there were some highly alien looking trees there. I presume they were imports.

We skipped Melbourne and crossed the channel to the hrbr on a ferry. I was avoiding large cities.

I hope you have a good trip to Tas as we missed it (but we had a dog (actually Kathleen's) named after it -- Taz, short for Tasmania devil... Appropriate name.

You have some very great pictures. Sometime I would like to see them all... more or less. I came back from two weeks in the Maritimes with about 1000.

Unc Mike