2015/10 Australia trip - Blackwood River & Beedelup |
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Tuesday October 20th
Our plan was spend some of the day at Beedelup national park and to camp at D’Entrecasteaux on the coast, but it didn’t work out exactly that way. Our route took us through 
Blackwood River national park and of course we had to stop for coffee and take a look. We discovered a peaceful setting around the Blackwood River; it looked like a great canoeing spot. This backwater is called the Marlbeelup Pool. Sadly, we hadn’t packed a boat.
We found these new flowers within a hundred yards or so. They are: green kangaroo paw, hooded lily, fringe lily, cow kick, bottlebrush, and a nuytsia, what the locals call a Christmas tree. But 
there were plenty more, local variations on species we’d already seen elsewhere.
We continued on to Beedelup national park or at least we tried to; both of our GPSs wanted to take us into a network of private roads. Judging from all the “private”, “no parking”, and “keep out” signs we weren’t the first to be led there by their GPS. Eventually we backtracked until we found a public road and a sign for the park.
The main attraction there is Beedelup Falls. Now, traveling any distance to see an Australian waterfall is always a risk as it may turn out to be a slow drip or just a patch of damp, but this one was pretty, running at about half volume. The park was attractive too with more karri trees and a couple of new flowers, this scaevola 
and a spider orchid.
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Beedelup Falls (0.32) |
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