Month: September 2015

Wildflowers at Mount Hay

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Despite having spent much time walking in the vicinity of Mt Hay, I had never actually been to the top before. I arrived mid-afternoon to find just one other car in the carpark – another green Subaru, which looked to be almost exactly the same vintage as mine! There was also a very fancy, new information board with notes about Butterbox Canyon and several photos by Dave Noble. And the wildflowers were out! I was surprised by the big difference in variety and abundance compared with our visit to Kanangra last weekend. There were Acacia, Continue Reading →

Boyd River Camping

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It had somehow been ten years since I’d visited Kanangra. Many of those years I was living interstate, but now that we’re only two hours’ drive away it seemed like a visit was well overdue. Joel’s birthday straddles the end of winter and the beginning of spring, and has become a traditional camping weekend. It’s a good time of year to dust off the camping gear and head for the bush as the weather warms up. This year we decided to stay overnight at Boyd River Campground. We headed off on Continue Reading →