Plants of Western Australia - And A Wedding.

We've been to Perth.

For a wedding.

Our eldest's wedding.

But just to whet your appetite...here are some of the beautifully unusual plants of Western Australia. 

Silver Princess (above).

Seven hundred year old boab tree which was transplanted into Kings Park after a 3200 kilometre road trip, in 2008. (Above).

Above three photos: Banksia

Seed pods from gum trees. (Above).

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I bought this mobile in 2010 when Mr Honey Pie & I visited Wyndham Western Australia.

Wyndham is Western Australia's most northern town.

The mobile is made from boab tree nuts which have been cut into two and carved and polished.

Boab trees can live for anything up to six thousand years.

While in Western Australia, we visited two boab trees which, in the past, were used as lock ups, for Indigenous Australian prisoners in transit. They are known infamously as Boab Prison Trees.

One is in Derby and the other in Wyndham.

One of these trees is said to have the ability to house up to ten people at a time.

How ironic that such a significant tree was put to such use.

Cooling Down Period.

Sydney is now experiencing a period of cooler weather, after a sweltering six day of 35oC plus temperatures.
I am enjoying the 20oC or thereabouts temperatures.  Time to catch up on all the chores that didn't get done in the excessive heat.
Perth, in Western Australia is recovering from devastating bush fires in which sixty plus homes were destroyed.
This is definitely a summer of natural disasters.
The State of Victoria is still recovering from massive flooding.