Enter one of the state’s most spectacular wildflower areas when you take a leisurely drive north. This is a wonderful opportunity to experience the Indian Ocean Drive that meanders up the coast from Perth to Cervantes, Jurien Bay and Leeman. The other option is to travel via the inland Brand Highway route. The Everlastings Trail makes its way through areas ablaze with colour, often stretching lazily as far as the horizon. For many, this is the wildflower viewing they’ve always imagined.
Visitors travelling inland will marvel at the wide variety of everlastings in this region. The stirring sight of vast displays of massed radiant colour among trees and bushland is a common occurrence on this interesting journey. Wildflower lovers and keen photographers will go home with endless exquisite memories.
Everlastings Trail Map Reference Points
1 Brand Highway and Indian Ocean Drive
2 Badgingarra National Park
3 Lesueur National Park
4 Lake Indoon
5 Depot Hill Reserve
6 Coalseam Conservation Park
7 Mullewa - Wubin Road
8 Victoria Plains
9 Bindoon
Everlastings Trail - Must do and see
- Walk amongst The Pinnacles - limestone formations which reach up to 5 metres tall, in the Nambung National Park
- Take a tour to see the sea lions at Fisherman’s Island, south of Green Head
- Walk the Dongara-Denison Heritage Trail and the Irwin River Nature Trail
- Visit the Fisherman’s Lookout at Port Denison or sweeping ocean views
- Discover Mullewa’s giant, colourful murals which adorn the townsite
- Explore the Morawa Museum with it’s old gaol and courthouse and a collection of windmills
- Look out for a wide selection of native birds at Perenjori and have a relaxing picnic at the man-made lake
- Take in the wildflower and farming views at Buntine Rocks, 16 kilometres north of Wubin
- Take a New Norcia guided walking tour
- Explore the Chittering Valley Wine trail, a 76 kilometre loop passing through Bindoon
Special Events
Mullewa Wildflower Show
Sunday 23 August - Sunday 30 August 2009
Mullewa Town Hall
Open: Daily 9.00am to 5.00pm
Admission: Adults $5 / Pensioners and Seniors $3
Tel: (08) 9961 1500
www.mullewatourism.com.au
More than 200 species of the mid-west region’s spectacular wildflowers including the wreath flower are featured in this well-known show.
Dalwallinu Wattle Week Festival
Saturday 5 - Saturday 12 September 2009 - Events daily
Tel: (08) 9668 10 10 or (08) 9661 1001
Activities are organised each day in an area with some of the most diverse Acacia species in the world. Included are bush walk tours, bush breakfast, vintage machinery, biennial art show and more. A wildflower show at Wubin is also part of this festival.
Chittering Wildflower Show
Thursday 17 - Saturday 20 September 2009
Bindoon Town Hall
Open: 10.00am to 4.00pm
Admission: small fee
Tel: (08) 9576 1100
Plenty of attractions including a massed wildflower display, around 200 named specimens, guided tours, teas and wildlife marquee.
