A dry year in Perth

Monday 28th. 

Here's a look at the new B&B. As you see, we have a pool outside our sitting room door. There is also a spa pool ready for use when you come out of the pool. Up to the left there is an outside barbecue and dining area. All this and a cooked breakfast every day. 

We decided to stay local today and explore the Mundy Regional Park. This park covers the coastal plain to the top of the Darling Scarp to Lesmurdie Falls. So, right on our doorstep. The Darling Scarp originated as the local expression, in the Perth area, of the extensive Darling Fault, a major and ancient geological discontinuity. As some stage, tectonic plates shifted and the Scarp was pushed upwards. Perth now stands on land that used to be seabed when this shift first occurred. 

Unfortunately it has been a very dry summer in the Perth area and the falls were hardly flowing. We had also forgotten that it was a bank holiday and that there would be loads of families about. 

So we decided to follow one of the longer walks around the falls in the hope that everyone else would stop when the going got rough. And, they did. But so did Brigid, nearly. 

Here we are climbing up a path that resembled more a stream bed. We weren't too sure that it was a footpath but there were footprints now and again and, if we looked backwards, the occasional marker post. When we finished our walk/scramble we realised that the path had been signed anti-clockwise whilst we had been going clockwise. If you set off anti-clockwise you had a marker at the beginning of the trail and in other key places. By going round backwards we had missed some of the paths as the exit point was obvious if you were doing everything properly. Never mind, we had a good walk and slept well when we got back.