Mingenew Moments

 

A sea of yellow

Mingenew  If you have watched TV recently you would have heard of Mingenew a smallish town 360km north of Perth inland from Geraldton in the centre of wildflower country.   We try on our winter excursions north to time our return trip to at least spend a few days in the wild flowers. As they had done a couple of times before our good friends from down south headed up to north to could catch-up and spend a few days together taking in the sights around Mingenew. 

Pink wind mill on the way to Mullewa

Day one saw us heading north to Mullewa, across to Pindar to check out the Wreath Flowers just outside Pindar. Unfortunately, we were a few weeks early and the wreath flowers had not achieved famous “wreath” shape yet. With a diversion via Morawa back to Mingenew it was still a great day out driving thru the wheat, barley and golden canola fields and stands of wild flowers.

Is that a Koala ?

Day two saw us doing a shorter run to Coalseam Conservation Park (no dogs - so the faithful hound was confined to barracks for the day) Coalseam  which is promoted as one of the best wildflower areas in WA. It is truly a very pretty place with Irwin River cutting through rolling hills to provide small gorges, valleys, meadows, and riverbeds all bursting to the seams (that’s a poor pun) with flowers.  We even found some coal at the old coal mining site at a Miners (strange name?) camping area which also has a big camping area suitable for large caravans (no hounds though).  Great day out in a pretty place with friends.

Photo of photographer

The town of Mingenew was once the rail hub for all cattle shipments south to Perth from as far north as the Kimberly and is a clean and tidy town with lots of history.   The “famous” Mingenew Bakery lived up to its reputation and the local pub served up a bloody good steak for dinner. The caravan park in town is well priced, and like the town, is clean and well run.

My Mum loved Kenny G and her flower garden so this video is dedicated to her and can be found HERE