Staying at Siesta Park, makes it easy for the orchid hunter, like us, to access where they grow. So we started our orchid hunting day early. Soon we were off, looking for the spots our book that mentions where orchids can be found. Drakaea is a genus of 10 species...
Someone in the orchid group indicated he found a Pygmy orchid west of Corrigin. So I rush to our orchid map book and find a more exact location. Then, looking at a bigger map, we see that if you go as far as Corrigin, you might as well keep on...
No one wants to leave a holiday. Our time had come though, and we weren’t going straight home, so, even though we were leaving Siesta Park, we still had a day’s adventures ahead of us. I have a feeling, we will be back.
We went to Siesta Park my first visit ever to Australia, we went when we got married, and this was our third time there together. 5:00 A.M. Time to get up as you never know, Siesta Park is situated to often get lovely sunrises.
Often when I am in Perth, John takes me to see the sunset. We usually go on days when the sky looks like it has potential for a dramatic sunset. There was potential on this particular evening. So my first week back, staying awake and staying asleep BOTH have...
“For a while” is a phrase whose length can’t be measured.At least by the person who’s waiting.” ~ Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun If saying good-bye to my husband, being injured and worried, and a long trip ahead of me wasn’t tragic enough, I had...
The weekend was spent getting up each morning at 5 am to check out sunrises. This day we went to King’s Park. We didn’t just look at the sky, we had an early morning walk around.
We set the alarm for 5 am. Even though we aren’t in a beach hideaway like on our honeymoon, I asked John for some good places near the house to go for sunrise. He suggested Whiteman Park. I love it there, so I was happy with the idea. It was...
As we boarded the plane in San Francisco, the pilot warned we would hit some turbulence and that even the flight path would be altered closer to Hawaii. At the time I told myself it was kind of reassuring to be forewarned, unlike my last flight over the Pacific when...
The next day, we woke up from our little place we were staying and climbed up Wave Rock, again, to see the sunrise. It was cold and I was half asleep, I couldn’t believe I was climbing that rock when I could hardly open my eyes.
It turned out difficult to leave the place we called home for a short while. So part of the good-bye was to see the sunrise one more time before we left.
After our long day the day before, getting out of bed early before the sun should have been difficult, but I didn’t want to miss one minute of the beauty that makes up Siesta Park. Here are two of the images showing the greeting the sky gave us.
Siesta Park is so peaceful, on that you can tell as soon as you arrive. One of the nice things about it is that it faces north, so, you can get the sunrise and the sunset. I nearly slept through our first sunrise, and when I heard the birds singing...
I woke up, looked at the clock, noted the time was precisely for sunrise, dashed out of the bed grabbing my camera at the same time, and managed to photograph a nice sunrise.
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