A few last minute things on departure day to take care of on the home front saw us on the road around 9.30am. We’re heading up the Great Northern Highway, and having heard only good things about Wannamal we thought this would be a great place for our first night.
We weren’t disappointed. Wannamal is a great site,. There’s separate ladies and Gents flush loos, with hand basins. There’s a free gas barbecue, a mosaic picnic table with two bench seats, a few other seats scattered around, and three fire pits.
There’s a few people here who have come up from Perth and the surrounding suburbs with this as their destination – and why not! With the profusion of wild flowers surrounding us, and many more ready to bloom, it’s just gorgeous. And the best thing, it’s all clean, well kept, and it’s free.
Here’s some of the wild flowers we found, all within only a few metres of our van.
I don’t try to identify wild flowers, I just admire them. If you’d like to try and identify these ones, here’s a chart supplied at the camp site.
The camp site is on the site of the old Wannamal school that closed down in the 1980s. It’s quite close to New Norcia, so if you’re wanting to visit there you could do so while staying at Wannamal. The New Norcia roadside camp charges $10 a night and has no facilities (and when I say no facilities, I really mean NO facilities, absolutely none). Wannamal is much nicer.
It looks like there’s a lot of walk trails nearby to Wannamal, as well as a lake a short walk away on the opposite side of the road. Investigation will have to wait for a later time – and there will be another time at this beautiful site, that’s for sure! It’s a great place for the first stop on trip up to the top end, or even a great place for a wild flower investigation central point. We’ll be back!
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Wow those flowers! Love the table too. I’m enjoying catching up with your journey Chris, especially as I know nothing about the places you are passing through 🙂
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A gorgeous array of our native flowers, so colourful. Enjoy 🙂
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They are gorgeous, aren’t they. I’m about to post some more from day two. We were without internet cover last night.
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What beautiful wildflowers! The orchids are stunning. 😍
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I have a friend who is very much into the wild orchids, and will travel far and wide to see an uncommon one. I wouldn’t know an uncommon one from a common one, but I still enjoy them.
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Your first campsite sounds wonderful, especially with all the wildflowers. No doubt you’ll see many more flowers along the way.
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We have been seeing some stunners for sure. We’re north of Newman now though, and I think the season has finished up here for flowers.
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I just love the photos of the flowers Chris, they’re brilliant! What a lovely sounding campsite for your first night on the road. Enjoy your trip and hope to read more.
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It was a very pretty camp site. So many wildflowers, and the second night was the same. We’ve moved above them now though, but still love the scenery.
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Great info for grey nomads, Chris. God tur as they say in Scandinavian – have a great trip in Aussie!
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Thank you Amanda. We will, always do a big road trip.
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