Tuart Walk

For our third walk of the day, (not bad for a recovering sprained ankle?), we went on the Tuart Walk.

The highlight of this walk are the majestic tuart trees which grow up to 40 metres high and occur in the 420 kilometre strip between Busselton in the south to Jurien Bay in the north.
The understorey includes a myriad of banksia trees — including the candle and bull banksias – which bear unusual cylindrical seeding cones. The area’s early inhabitants, the Noongar people, used the banksia flowers to make sweet drinks. You will also find some rare and beautiful species of wild orchids such as the king spider orchid in this park.

A butterfly greeted us.

Stackhousia

Loved this group of wildflowers growing in and around this tree.

I walked past this and John quickly noticed…

…a bearded dragon.
He was sunning himself and very patient with us.

Petrophile linearis, commonly known as pixie mops.

Pimelea, looking lovely in the sun.

Closer look.

Microtis orchid

Happy to see yet another Pink Fairy.

This one was even deeper in color.

We got to see a fantail.

A silver eyes.

And a bronze-wing pigeon.

Then it was off to the coast, again, for a sunset.

It was another beauty.