Mullewa

Come for the 100km drive through cropping country, and signage mentioning wildflower trails - unfortunately we're out of season for this, to check out Mullewa and surrounds.
We start by going to the information centre which is open. Lovely lass gives us a map to show us the walks we can do about the town, and places of interest to see. Yes it is mentioned that we've just missed (by about 4 weeks) the most amazing wildflower season...oh well, another reason to come back when it is the right time.
We start off by going to the Gallery Cafe of local artist Helen. We get to see Helen at work on her latest painting - her colours and style very neat and precise. We enjoy our cappuccino and chai here with a muffin each, raspberry & white chocolate for Rog, lemon for me. It's nice and busy in the Cafe, can understand why - it is a very nice shop to be in, with all Helen's art work, prints and products on display. Next we go for the Heritage walk about Mullewa, this leads us to the walk (what we came for really) that takes us to John Lawes buildings - the church and rectory. They are a work of art within themselves - what a remarkable man John was with all that he achieved. These buildings are an incredible legacy, and so good that they are being preserved. Well worth the drive today! The church and museum (was where John lived) are closed, but we're in luck, the current minister can be contacted (have his phone number displayed at the church entrance) - so Roger rings him, Robert is available to let us have a look. We can only look in the church as the Museum has recently been vandalised (local youth?) and they're waiting on repair work to be done. Again our luck was with us as Robert was just leaving to go to Geraldton, then fly to Perth for a long overdue catch up with some of his family - so we have just been in time for him to give us a quick look - which is all we need. Amazing work with the church - just beautiful. Now we walk back to our ute (parked at Tourist centre) and go for a drive about to check out a couple more things before we start our drive back to Geraldton. We go check out the Aboriginal outdoor worship meeting place that John prepared, and then go to the Scenic Lookout.Läs mer