Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd September, 2024

We’ve had a couple of wonderful driving days since Yalgoo on the way to Morawa, with everlastings carpeting the bushland as we travelled along. Cream, pink, blue, mauve and white. Today we even saw some of the rare wreath flowers. They like the graded edges of roads.

I’ve taken photos and videos of the flowers, but can’t seem to show just how incredible it was for us. With little traffic on the road we were able to cruise at about 70kms today, which allowed us to really take in the changing scenes. The everlastings seem to like flat land more than hills. When we reached the Shire of Morawa we were entering the agricultural region and then we only had flowers on the roadside verges or where there were little patches of bush.

Our overnight at the cemetry was lovely visually, but the flies were so dreadful that we only went outside when necessary. Our location tonight is also plagued by flies, but we have neighbours who are sitting outside, I guess with their flynets on.

We put our fly nets on for a bit of a walk here in the late afternoon, just to check out the area where we are staying. The constant buzzing is annoying, but with long sleeves and long pants they couldn’t actually land on us, apart from our hands.

On the way here we called in to Morawa for hot drinks, shopping, and to visit the dump point and to fill up at what we hope is a potable water tap. We have some spring water bottles left, plus sparkling water, and will only drink the water from that tap if we boil it, just in case. We used it for our afternoon tea and Stephen said it tasted a bit salty.

Of course, the water is fine for our water tank as we only use it for washing, dishes and us.

And tomorrow it is off to Mingenew to meet up with Marie and Geoff and explore that area, including looking for everlastings, wreath flowers, and hopefully other flowers as well.