Little Desert

I  had great memories of Wyperfeld and Little Desert National Parks from many years ago and I wanted to include them in this trip. Unfortunately, staying in a National Park in Victoria isn't just a matter of putting cash in an envelope and sticking a label on your tent any more. Now you need to book in advance on the Internet. Which is easy enough in theory, but not so easy when you can't find an info centre that knows about road conditions and facilities until you get close, and of course, no reception in the park itself.  Even in the Grampians we were told to go to a closer info centre. So we gave up and came into Dimboola. A lovely caravan park with excellent facilities, huge grassy sites and right beside the river. And, as we discovered today, actually CHEAPER than a NP site nearby.

The funniest thing is that one of those other Mary Argalls (there seem to be quite a few in the world :-)) lives near here. The park care-taker couldn't work out why her friend wanted to book a site. Apparently there are several Argalls around here. We did check out the white pages, but, even though I know from Ian Argall's fabulous one name study that all living Argalls are related, I didn't feel up to introducing myself.

Little Desert is lovely, in a hot sort of way. It is probably a bit too hot at the moment to really enjoy. The bits we could reach with our Subaru were Horseshoe bend, Ackle Bend, Pompondero Hill, Kiata campground and Sanctuary picnic area (where we saw a mallee fowl mound and tracks in the sand which might have been mallee fowl tracks).

There is a lot of vegetation, but it is all growing on sand, white beach type sand. Many banksias, flowering prolifically at the moment, and my favourite, calytris (forgive my spelling!)