Lesueur National Park

Way Away in WA 2023 – Day 42 – Kwongan in National Parks

August 22, 2023

We returned to Lesueur National Park and did the road loop through the park and the Gairdner Trail that circles a long rocky hill with some different species of wildflowers. Kingia in the morning light The Northern Queen of Sheba Orchid (Thelymitra pulcherrima) is listed on WA’s Declared Rare and Priority Flora List. We were … More Way Away in WA 2023 – Day 42 – Kwongan in National Parks

Way Away in WA 2023 – Day 41 – Lesueur National Park

August 21, 2023

Lesueur National Park is home to over 900 plant species – 10 percent of Western Australia’s known flora. There is as much biodiversity here as in the Amazon rainforest. We are now in the kwongan – a Noongar term for the sandplains with low bushy heath. The Noongar are Indigenous Australian peoples who live in the south-west … More Way Away in WA 2023 – Day 41 – Lesueur National Park