Day 70 - Tuesday, 22 March - "Lake Navarino" (campsite)

We start the day visiting l'Arboretum in "Inglehope Park",  just south of Wellingup.  

A lovely walk for an or more by foot, taking tile to take close looks at the many treed, we have seen in the forests in the south. 

The "Mediterranean Maritime Pine" which sheds its bark so beautifully ....

.... leaving the trunk ever so shining.  It grows generally 35 m tall.  We know this Maritime Pine from Jar sur Mer, in France

"The Sidney Blue Gum" grows up to 66 meter tall and is slim and very colourful.

Banga tree - grows to 2 meter tall.  The bush they are like   bad weeds.  We call them 'Comic strip trees"  or "Tegneserietræer".  The needle-like leaves grow out from the top of the "stem" and so does the cream coloured long and slim flower, usually one per plant.   The Banga is slow growing, long living and very fire resistant.

"Euc marginata" popularly called Jarrah is also a Eucalyptus.  It is the most common Timber tree in West Australia.  We drove through huge State forests of Jarrah just a few days ago between Walpole and Denmark, on the south coast.

A small sample of the "California Redwood" ends today's Arboretum tour.

 

We expected much from the "Lake Navarino" campsite and were deeply disappointed.  

 

 Huge forest fires two months ago.

But the story is even sadder for the owners who acquired the camping two weeks before the fire.   

They lost 90% of the infrastructure and were busy rebuilding, when we were there.  Good news are that, although the forest still smells fire and ashes, they are fully booker for Easter.