Lake Indoon and Three Springs

We had a quick breakfast at Eneaba then drove to Lake Indoon to look for orchids. We were rewarded with some spectacular orchids but Queen of Sheba, the holy grail of native orchid, is still eluding us.
Got to Three Springs where the lovely lady at the Visitors Centre set us up with mud maps of where to find orchids in 3 different locations around town. As Grace was starving, we had to first set up tent and prepare lunch. We made enough pasta for lunch and dinner, and started a very rewarding orchid hunt with full tummies. We first got the the wrong cemetery, Three Springs Cemetery. Very fortunate for us that accomodation was being organised there as we got directions from a cemetery worker to Arrino Cemetery where we saw Red Spider Orchids and Snail Orchids. We then went to Dookanooka Reserve where we saw a coffle of Donkey(orchids), White Spider Orchids and huge displays of Cowslips. To top of the day, we arrived back to find someone had left mandarins on our camp table. We met a couple (man from Perth, lady from Thailand) who told us that a local handed a bag of mandarins to a camper who distributed it around the campground. As we were away, she left some on the table for us. We met another couple from Queensland with a beautiful large caravan. They told us that they are not mechanical minded nor handy, and have travelled all around with their caravan without any issues except for once when the fridge stopped working 3 days from home. They just went back home, fixed it and started their trip the next week.Leggi altro