Here’s some lovely peas you don’t see on the east coast. Love the colour combination here. It turns out that I tried to grow this one in a pot at home – but it died due to lack of water. One thing the south west does not (usually) lack is rain, due to the cold fronts coming off the Indian Ocean.
Not a bad place to have a picnic – as long as it isn’t too windy (there’s a reason why the hamlet is called Windy Harbour).
Some interesting dune flowers we found near the cottages. The white daisies we commonly see on the east coast, but this was the first time I’d seen a weeping flower.
After quite a few posts inland, we’re heading to the sea again. I’ll concentrate on our visit to D’Entrecasteaux National Park, which is located on the coast south of Pemberton.
D’Entrecasteaux’s name pops up a few times along Australian shores because he was one of the first explorers to chart our shores. The reason he was out here at all was to search for La Perouse who disappeared off the east coast some 3 years before (there is a suburb in Sydney named after him). D’entrecasteaux’s mark is all over Tasmania (Bruny Island is named after him), but I knew less about his Western Australian place names.
We visited Point D’Entrecasteaux, half way along the national park coast. The only settlement is the fishing hamlet of Windy Harbour, consisting of a row of fibro fishing cottages, a boat ramp, and stretches of beach between boulders. On the horizon is the uninhabited Sandy Island.
Static and Silence 