Drive to Perth via Dalwallinu 10th September

We pulled out of Geraldton having felt very lucky that the weather had been kind to us. Thankfully the wind had abated for a few days and the sun shone making it much warmer than we expected.

We decided to drive through the wildflower country www.wildflowercountry.com.au as we have read and heard so much about the wild flowers that are out about this time of the year. We headed for Mingenew www.mingenew.wa.gov.au which we were told was the best place to start. Unfortunately the sun wasn’t shinning however we were very impressed with country side which looked very green and the crops looked absolutely magnificent with the yellow of the canola glowing in the sun when it did come out from behind the clouds. After 6 years of drought the farmers must have smiles on their faces as the rain fall has been very good for them.

Back to the flower run. We were a bit disappointed with what we had seen so we drove on to Morawa where we had lunch and also went into the visitors bureau www.morawa.wa.gov.au  Here we chatted with Paul who had put together a local map marked with all the locations of the best flowers and wreaths that we could see. So we set off on a wild drive around which took us over open railway crossings and along dirt roads into the back of beyond. We did see some great flowers however the wreaths evaded us and as the weather hadn’t improved that much we finally decided to make our way to our next stop as we like to be somewhere for the night before 4pm. So we set tom tom for Dalwallinu www.dalwallinu.wa.gov.au where there was a caravan park we could stay at. We arrived as the wind really started to blow and found that the place was almost full as most travellers had decided to pull off the road early as the weather had really turned nasty. We were able to have a site between some of the bigger caravans which would act as a bit of a wind break and give us some protection. We set up just before the rain started to belt down and in fact then continued on for most of the night. As this was the first heavy rain we had had since Tamworth we were anxious to see if we would be ok. We shouldn’t have been concerned as we stayed dry, maybe a little damp but otherwise we were very happy with the Jayco.