2nd September 2014
Coalseam Conservation Park is a vestige of the flora which once covered vast areas of the inland sandplains. Now almost all the natural vegetation has been cleared and huge quantities of wheat and other crops are grown.
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| Irwin River, Coalseam CP |
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| Irwin River, Coalseam CP |
The conservation park survived in part because of the rugged terrain and because coal seams were visible in the river banks. Fortunately the coal mining in the early 20th century proved unprofitable so the area has been saved.
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| Coalseam CP |
The wildflowers are about 2 weeks past their best but spectacular non the less, and the geology interesting too.
Later we drove south east in search of the unique wreath flower, which only grows in a few small areas.
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| Wreath flower |
The wreath flowers like to grow on disturbed stony ground and we were surprised to find them in a quarry and on the roadside edges of farms. Seems like a precarious existence for such an endangered plant.
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