21/10/21 Galena bridge

     Leaving Mothpit after a quiet night , we head south toward another of our favourites Galena Bridge . The wildflowers have been very absent in places and we're wondering what it will be like in Kalbarri ? But that all changed further down the road , flowers started to appear and then there were lots . Stopping at a Nerren Nerren rest area we wandered around the place and found these . 

  Seedpods from previous flowering .

 These are seedpods as well , but look like they should be flowers - very colourful .

   These brilliant little beauties appeared .

  More seedpods - these are striped .

    Flowers were everywhere

    And one of the locals 

    Back on the road and after about another half an hour we stopped again and went for a walk , very colourful now .

    This one looks like it has flowered and this is what remains , but maybe it's the flower ???

     Then there was this little orange beauty .

    And this is it's bush .

 Smokebush is coming out everywhere .

    And these little balls were on their last legs .

    But for each flower finishing , there were plenty to take it's place .

    This is a cone flower, after flowering it is left with a small cone - smaller than a golf ball .

   We arrived at Galena Bridge and went to the south side where it is bitumen , found ourselves a spot and set up . There's been some rain recently , so we didn't want to trust seven & a half tonnes of ute & van on the dirt !

   Going for a wander around revealed more flowers & plenty of grass - signs of a wetter than usual winter & spring . This is a Desert Rose - there are many varieties and colours - deep purple through to cream .

   The banks of the river were covered in yellow flowers , each flower about the size of a 5 cent piece .

    This tiny moth was helping itself to the pollen .

    A couple of black swans were swimming around with their 6 cygnets .

    Clumps of grass were out in seed , this one being watched over by another lizard .

 

    We had a lot of other people camping there overnight , and it was much cooler - seems we've left the hot weather behind - not overly happy with that . That's it for today .