Early morning glow at Dallwallinu

We enter wildflower country

And you thought I was bad

Wubin is a town north of Dallwallinu. I know it’s a bit corny but I tried to get a Wubin Sandwich there.

According to a local, wildflower season doesn’t start for another 3 weeks but there are patches of colour on the roadsides. This is a Solanum bush.

Hakea seedpods

Brown falcon

On the road to Paynes Find, there were massed paper daisies on both sides of the road.

There were also scatterings of Brachycombe daisies across the ground

Out of the Wheatbelt and back into the mulga scrub

Desert kurrajong (Brachychiton gregoryi) are at their western extremity here. They are easy to spot with their dintictive shape and brighter green colour against the grey-green of the mulga.

Another Brachychiton to add to our list. My favourite genus of plants – includes bottle tree, flame tree and lacebark.

Ptilotus at Kirkalocha

Tiny butterfly on Ptilotus

Yellow-throated miner at Kirkalocha

We were attracted to the town of Mount Magnet

The Granites just north of Mount Magnet – a short drive off the highway, it has crumbly granite rocks and an impressive indigenous sculpture.

Looking back to Mount Magnet from The Granites

Lake Austin is a huge salt lake between Mount Magnet and Cue

The Great Northern Highway passes onto an island known as “The Island” in Lake Austin.

Sheep and dingo sculptures on Lake Austin. It dingo well for the sheep.

More sculptures near the second causeway crossing.

On our way to an old mine, we saw a Euro (Western Wallaroo)

Great Fingall Mine outside Cue. Gold was discovered here in 1891 and a town known as Day Dawn was in this vicinity.

And then a Camel train appeared on cue…at Cue

Ptilotus

Cue Police Station and Post Office (built in stages 1895-1905)

The main street in Cue could be used for a period film production with very little modification.

Cue Jail – welcoming visitors since 1896

More rocky outcrops north of Cue

The road to Meekatharra nearly clearing the south-westerly change.

Bluebird Gold mine just south of Meekatharra – has produced over 750 000 ounces of gold since 2015.