To Mt Magnet

23/8/12

Another really exciting day with flowers along the roadside – we wished Sue and Sal could have been there to share it with us!

 

 

 

Magnificent, tall Hakea shrubs...some with pink flowers, (look at the colour of the sky!!..a beautiful day)

 

 some with cream flowers,

and also some yellow Grevilleas like we saw last year.

Solanum and Ptilotus lined the road for kilometres, and there were many new flowers as well. (Yes, MORE flowers...sorry)

One little creeper had the shape of an old fashioned True lover's Knot

 



 

Filling up with diesel at Sandstone...only one bowser, and a lady with a shoulder bag processed the credit card. She's also the librarian and runs the museum...quite a character.

 

Most exciting of all, was seeing a Thorny Devil…Rob spotted it with its tail up, in the middle of the road. We did a U-turn and couldn’t find it, so turned back again and saw it there! In the meantime, a road train had passed over it without harm!!

After safely escorting him off the road, (he didn't run away but stayed still when we approached) we had a really good look at him. He was only about 15 – 20cm long and his camouflage was amazing.

To see such an iconic Australian reptile was a thrill.