Kingia Australis

Looks like a grass tree but is not, the Kingia is a Dasypogonaceae, extremely slow growing- grows 1.5cm a year, can live for hundereds of years, can have up to 100 flower stems

Gill Goes... Trekking The Bibbulmun Track End to End... Mt Dale Shelter

May 8th 2016
Day 4 Happy Mothers Day Beraking Shelter to Mt Dale Shelter 11.6 km Today was going to be an easy one at only 11.6 km. The decision to have such a short day today was made largely due to the next shelter - Brookton, still being closed after the 2015 bushfires and Canning (the one after) having a diversion in place for prescribed burning. After a fairly w ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Perth

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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