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Sunday, July 13, 2014

The Eagle View Walk, John Forrest National Park


Hello folks, it;s that time of the week again and I proudly bring you my latest images from the Eagle View Trail in John Forrest National Park near Mundaring.



 This time I had the pleasure to head out with my good mate James from mother England and together we tackled the 15km track that lay ahead of us. Well, at least we thought... 
We started by walking the loop in a counter-clockwise direction. The beginning is a mild uphill stroll, past the Hovea Falls (which I already covered and photographed in an earlier blog post) and through lush forest. 

Shortly after passing this straight down-and-up part of the track we met a family from Serbia which, unlike us, had an actual map of the National Park with them. Lucky for them, they knew sort of where they were. We, however, had the luck of finding out just then and there that we were currently on a short-cut that by-passes the the northern part of the loop. Unwilling to trace back and re-attempt the missed part of the track we soldiered on...


 James in his element.



Teeny tiny waterfall in John Forrest National Park
This is a vertical Panorama of this tree, consisting of 5 separate exposures

Skippy and his mate - we later saw roughly another 20 or so Kangaroos along the Eagle View Trail

 Time for a break, with stunning views of the rolling hills and the Perth skyline in the far distance

Micro organisms

The burned bark of a log on the side of the trail

This final image(I doubt these rock paintings are real, but they still make for a nice photo) was shot on the western edge of the National Park, after we, admittedly, got a little lost.

Just before the sun had completely set, we traced our path back to the critical intersection and kept on going, stopping here and there for a few night time shots of the city and some small waterfalls (James took these images). Along the way, unfortunately in the dark, we saw some great boulders and rock formations for which we will definitely have to come back and shoot them during daylight. We spent about an hour walking in the dark, luckily for us we brought some torches and, as I just found out today, were lucky enough to do this trail during the 'Supermoon' so that we were provided with enough ambient light to see where we were going.

Unfortunately we found that the trail itself is pretty badly marked out. We lost our way two times (and that was in bright day light) and sometimes had to check the gps for our coordinates. It seemed as though the trail was laid out for a clock-wise approach. Since we walked counter-clockwise though, we missed a few of the track markers.

All in all though it was a great track. We saw lots of wildlife and waterfalls, met a few friendly folks along the way, saw the amazing WA sunset and the city lights at night from the Eagle View lookout. :)

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