Mullewa

We woke up to our tent swaying in the wind. We had not pegged the guy ropes as the winds weren't supposed to start till Saturday, so at 6am I got out to do that and saw the most spectacular colourful sunrise. Ruby's Scottish dad would say, "Red skies in the morning, fisherman's warning."
After a simple breakfast and packing our light snack, we headed to Mullewa for the Outback Bloom Festival.
We joined a wildflower guided walk at Mullewa Hill. The walks we attended in 2021 were led by guides from Kings Park, Perth. This year it was led by staff from Geraldton Visitors Centre. There is a significant difference in the knowledge of the guides. We were very disappointed as we were looking forward to learning more from these walks. We ate our quick snack at the lookout before going to the bush tucker talk. The indigenous lady explained that as the rains were late, the bush tucker plants had not yet yielded any specimens for her to bring to the talk. However she had photos to show us the various plants and explained their uses. Most plants in the bush have nutritional or medicinal value if one knows when to harvest, which part of the plant to harvest and how to prepare. She said that though late, this year's wildflowers around Mullewa, and bushtucker yield deep in the Murchison, was the best she had seen since she was young, and she's now an old lady.
The fishermen were warned, and so were we. It has been drizzling off and on and the wind has been blustery. Wind gusts of over 50km/h was forecasted. We returned to camp at about at 2.15pm to check our campsite. The tent was flapping like a wannabe flag, but all was otherwise well.Read more