Lake Grace

22^nd to 25^th September

This post is going to be short on words, long on photos, and not a bird in sight. My headliners are just a few of Western Australia’s wild flowers.

First off, a little about Lake Grace. It’s southeast of Perth and for the most part, is a system of dry salt lakes, but when in flood, Lake Grace forms two very large inland lakes. The lake is known for its colours, pinks, mauves, and greens, but like all salt lakes, the depth of colour relies on the environment. When we were there, we saw shades of pink, but I have to say, nowhere near as impressive as Lake Bumbunga.

We stayed at Lake Grace for three days and spent most of the time hunting wildflowers. They may not move very fast, but…you really have to hunt them down. Here are some of the roads we took.

Now to the main event. There are a lot of images, but I did cull them…a lot, so there could have been a lot more. ☺️ If you make it through them all, I hope you can find your favourite. I know which one mine is.

To date we haven’t seen fields with massed flowers, wrong place, wrong time, but along the roadside near Lake Grace we got an idea of what the massed flowers would look like.

I must say, I have never seen a flower with such vibrant blue as these, and they have not been photoshopped at all.

One of the magnificent things about some of these flowers, is their uniqueness.

The first flower in this set is my personal favourite, and Peter found it for me. It is so delicate and pretty and perfectly formed, I just love it.

These too, are particularly delicate, and what is hard to tell from the photos, is that some of these individual blossoms are no larger than my little finger nail.

Here are some more unusual flowers. The first is so intricate and delicate, whereas the second could be formed in wax.

Purple is one of my favourite colours, and these flowers celebrate the colour in style.

Red and yellow, a match made by Mother Nature.

The first images in this set were a much bigger blossom, about the size of my clenched fist, spldi almost succulent petals, whereas the next are delicately feathered, they look so fragile.

And last but not least, the humble white flower, not so humble, just lovely.

I hope you made it to through them all, and like me, were blown away by this small selection of WA’s wildflowers.

See you out there somewhere

On tow and on the go!