We recently spent a weekend camping with friends at Discovery Bay Coastal Park in the west of Victoria, an area with abundant history and natural beauty.
We went for a hike in an enchanted forest of moonah trees…
Walking
Moonah forest
Lichen and mosses abound in the Enchanted Forest
Perfect web
Rockwall
And visited a surreal landscape originally believed to be made up petrified trees but now recognised as the result of mineral erosion…
Lunarscape covered in Leucophyta brownii
Pillars
Small pillars
Tree trunk shapes
Eroded pillars
Blue sea
Waves at the Blowholes
Discovery Bay is known for its huge sand dunes and we were keen to get among them.
Dune walking
Sand dunes
Reeds
Scotto on the dunes
Not much speed but lots of fun
It was a weekend of chats, fires, walks and discoveries. And lovely time with good friends, including this sweet little man…
Determined to help!
And I had some time with my camera…
Kunzea leaves
Kunzea pomifera flowers, which become muntries, a bushfood berry with a spicy apple flavour
Kunzea
Pimelea
Polygala myrtifolia- weedy but spectacular
It’s a very beautiful area to spend time and well worth the five-hour drive from Melbourne…