Day 5 Dunn's Track Camp to Perth via Coujinup Track

Wednesday, 25th November 2015

We woke up with the plan to stay here for another day and set about relaxing and enjoying the morning bird life. Among the birds we saw were a couple of Rainbow Bee-eaters and we managed to get a photo of one. They very quick in the morning catching bugs. The wind picked up and after a while became unpleasant so we decided to pack up and head back to the Coujinup Track and check it out.

We headed south and turned left onto Coujinup track which took us in a south easterly direction. Now by comparison, Coujinup Track is ‘worse’ than Woodinup Track although it wasn’t difficult. It was just a bit tight in places especially as we were about to cross the Oldfield River, which was dry where the track crossed the riverbed but had some pools of water in it. Before we could cross the river we had to clear some trees from the track.

While we were checking out the river we noticed a bearded dragon sunning himself and an ant known as a Jumping Jack. The ant is venomous and native to Australia. They have a very nasty bite and can cause an anaphylactic shock in some people. Be careful of these little guys when you’re out an about in the south west of WA. For a bit more info on the Jumping Jack Ant check out this link http://www.jjant.info/

Continuing on our way the track resembled a dry creek bed in places as the result of rain coursing down it.

About 5 or 6 kms before Coujinup Track intersects West Point Road we came across a grader widening the road to the width of a 4 lane freeway. We stopped for a short yarn with the grader operator and he told us that there had been a fire about 20 kms north and they were widening the track as a fire break.

Now we were originally going to head down West Point Road but it was closed due to the fire so we had to take Rawlinson Road which passed by the Cheadanup Nature Reserve. We took a bush track to Cascade Road and then turned left on Cascade Road. From here we passed through Frank Hann National Park. The end result was that we ended up on the Lake King – Norseman Road. We were now on our final leg home. As we approached Wagin we were treated to a lovely sunset, much better than you see in the city. We were close to home and with the sun setting in the west unfortunately it signaled the end of our trip.

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