Spring+holidays

Welcome back! I hope you all had a restful, but active spring break? What did you do? Did you get away? Did you have a look at the spring flowers in Kings park? I went down South to Dunsborough and Pemberton. I took some lovely coastal and river walks. If you go down south i would really recomend these walks they where not hard and each walk was only an hour long. We walked from Castle Rock to Mylup beach one day. then Mylup to Eagle Bay and Eagle Bay over the headland to the light house. I took many photos of the wild flowers, I especially wanted to find some Donkey orchids. They are named this becasue of their 'ears'. In Pemberton we also walked and canoed the Warren river, maiden bush trail along the Warren is very lush and green. Below are some of the wildflowers. Please write about your holidays also. this is a donkey orchid if you want to see more West Australian wild flowers look at our wicki page or visit this web site [|**www.margaret-river-online.com.au/.../ donkey.htm**]



My Holiday

It was the first time we family went out for a picnic during school holiday in Perth. We used to live in Morawa where we seldom go down town. Since we moved back to Perth, we have the opportunity to look around.

This holiday we went to Yanchep National Park on Saturday. It was a sunny day. We family set off to the park at half-past ten in the morning. Yanchep National Park is located 45 minuties north of Perth. On the way to the park, my son kept asking when we will arrive to our destination. For him, 45minuties is a long way to go!

We arrived inYanchep National Park at noon. We got off the car and took out all our things we prepared the night before for our picnic. We found a shady place under a big tree to have our picnic where it is in front of a lake. While we enjoyed our sandwiches and drinks, some ducks climbed out from the lake walking around. They seemed to be hungry. We gave some bread to our son to feed the ducks. He had fun in feeding the ducks as more and more ducks came together. The other children did the same as my son. After feeding the ducks, the children started chasing after them, making them flied away. They laughed happily.

Finishing our lunch, we walked around the Park see whether what we could do. We noticed that some people were rowing boats in a lake. I thought it must be fun. We went to a souvenirs shop where we could hire the equipments for rowing boat. It costs $6.5 for hiring a boat in 30 minutes plus $10 deposit fee that will be returned to you only you presents a receipt after rowing boat. At last, we got into the boat and my husband was the one who controlled it. Rowing boat is not easy it requires some kind of technique. We tried many times before we totally controlled the boat. We rowed our boat successfully back.


 * __By Annie Chan__**