Wildflowers in Mingenew, Coalseam Conservation Park

In this rainy September, I visited Mingenew and the Coalseam Conservation Park to see the wildflowers again. This is the second time I’ve been and it’s a mission to get there from Perth.

About 4.5 hrs north of Perth, the conservation park is a concentrated area of wildflowers that carpet the hills. We’ve been staying in Eneabba, but this time found a campsite in the park – Miners. We’ll be using that next time as it’s right in the park.

The flowers are worth a visit, once in your lifetime if you can make it – do the trek. It really is spectacularly stunning to see rolling hills of everlastings. Get planning!

This time I took the zoom and macro lenses and spent a bit of time trying to capture the amazing views and some footage of the flowers in the breeze. It would be a great night time shoot under the moonlight. This September has been wet and there are some shallow water crossings that are a bit of fun. Ruts can develop in the middle of the unpaved crossing so it pays to walk it first.

If you get a chance, head to Miners in the park and walk east upstream. It seems to be a little less popular with visitors and we found some flowers that weren’t in other locations. It also has a shallow stream flowing along the very visible iron and sand deposits in the embankments. Geologists do group tours there, that tells you something.

It’s worth a full day to just wander slowly and take it in. There’s a lot of people that rush to the lookout, snap away and then head home. But if you take your time, there’s so much to see. Peregrine falcons do hunt the cliffs and I’ve been hoping to see one, no luck yet. I did spot one of my faves though, the crested pigeon.

If you take the Mingenew exit, you pass by a crazy escarpment that looks like something out of South Dakota.