Moora to Mingenew and lots of wild flowers

31st August 2014

We drove north with the idea of finishing in Mullewa for the day.  However, along the way we went into the information centre at Mingenew and two very helpful ladies in there said it wasn't worth driving further north as the flowers were early this year and we had mostly missed them!  However, they said there are still plenty to see to the east and west of Mingenew so we booked into the local caravan park and went looking in some of the locations they suggested.

Drifts of flowers on Depot Hill

This just goes to show how important local knowledge is as we would have bypassed Depot Hill because it didn't look promising from the road.  However, here we found beautiful drifts of daisies, everlastings and all manner of other flowers and shrubs too.  Truly spectacular.

The hill is so named as it was an army training ground during WWII.  A trench was dug, still intact, which was used for target practise.

WWII trench for firearms practise

Lots of orchids, most of which I can't find the names for.

Cowslip Orchid

Fringed Lily

After this we drove up Mingenew Hill for a great view of the little town.  There is a spring here so it was a very important watering point on the drovers trail in the past.