Coalseam Cons. Park to Wongan Hills

Reluctantly left Coalseam and continued on our merry way to the wheat town of Wongan Hills.  A pleasant little town with an excellent visitor centre.  Along the way we passed through endless wheat and canola paddocks of vast size.  Bright greens and almost blinding yellow of canola in full flower.  Not good for hay fever.  The knowledgeable gentleman at the visitor centre directed us to the best flower walks in the district.  The Wongan walk was very pretty with lots of new flowers including various dampieras and cowslip and donkey orchids.  We followed that up with the walk around Christmas Rock where we found ant orchids as well as many other species. Christmas Rock was very interesting in that the early pioneers had built out of rocks an aqueduct in order to collect the run off from Christmas Rock to supply the town.  Still operates today.   Also drove out of town to O'Brien's Lookout to see the extraordinary 360 degree views over a vast area of countryside.

Spider orchids

Ant Orchid

Dampiera

More cowslips

Donkey orchids everywhere