Well I woke up on Tuesday 7/10/14 and thought that I’d really like to go for a walk. Good thing that is just what we had planned to do.

We made a 20 minute trip to Yanchep National Park where we paid our entry fee (yes, they charge an entry fee to some National Parks in WA) and set off for the Visitor’s Centre. We spoke to the lady there about the different walks in the park and the cave tour we could do. After she totally freaked out the boys and I about snakes – there have been lots of sightings this season, it’s best to go on the well worn tracks, you should walk with your legs covered, remember you only have 40 minutes if you get bitten by a tiger snake and so on and so on – we decided to do the cave tour first and then do a 9.2km walk with the thousands of snakes that inhabit Yanchep National Park.

The cave tour lasted about and hour. We had a nice, informative tour guide and learned all about the limestone caves and the crystal – stalagmites and stalactites. We even got to touch some crystal and enjoyed looking at all the different formations.

After the cave tour we embarked upon our walk in snake territory. Daniel started out really slowly which is unusual. When questioned he said that he was looking for snakes. Well would you believe we didn’t see one snake the whole 9.2km’s? The closest we came to encountering one was at the very end of the walk where a man was staring into the bush, saying he had seen a snake slithering away. Oh, and we did see two little fellows like these . . .

So glad it wasn’t a snake

The walk was mainly easy, a bit undulating in places and a bit rocky at times. There were some really pretty, light purple flowers everywhere. I like to think they were wildflowers, but they looked a bit weedy. Who knows, maybe weeds and wildflowers are one and the same.

Daniel in a ruined bomb shelter (or was it a ghost house?)

Happy walkers

A pretty wildflower

In total we actually walked about 13 km’s – if you include the walk to the caves and then the walk from the caves to the commencement of ‘The ghost House’ track. No wonder our legs were feeling a bit sore at the end.

After our big walk we meandered our way through the Koala Sanctuary. We spotted quite a few of these lazy creatures. If only we could have the luxury of sleeping 20 hours a day like they do!

Sleepy koalas

A beehive

We stayed the night in a caravan park in the northern suburbs of Perth. It felt funny driving into Perth because it’s been so long since we’ve seen so many houses and cars. The information centre isn’t at all obvious, let along dump points!! I miss the remote areas already:(