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5) Route profile

6) Walk description

7) Waypoint listing and grid references

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Wandoo woodland,

Dryandra, Oct. 2003.

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       Route profile

164 kms SE of Perth. 

Main walk 22 field kms (45% off-track).

Also, existing trails:

Loy Gray 12.5 kms;  Wandoo  3.5 kms.

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Down Albany Hwy to North Bannister (94 kms from Perth), then about 68 kms along North Bannister-Wandering and Wandering-Narrogin Roads to reach turnoff on right  to Dryandra Village, located approx. 2 kms along a dirt road.

Via Tomingley Road (dirt road through middle of walk area) and/or several other vehicle tracks to York-Williams Road in west or back to Dryandra Village in east.

/Highlights:

For overnighters: You could camp at the Congelin Campground, off the York-Williams Road, SW of the walk area, where you need to provide your own water. The facilities include toilets and barbecues. DEC camping fees apply (currently $6.50 per adult per night).

Alternatively you can stay overnight for as little as A$25 (per person) in one of the very well restored and self-contained, old woodcutters' cottages in the Village managed by the Lions Club (phone the Village Caretaker on 08 98845231 for accommodation information).

The cottage accommodation is ideal and central to the various walks and also to the excellent Barna Mia animal sanctuary tour run 4 nights per week by DEC (admission $12 adults; contact DEC's Narrogin office, ph. 08 98819200). The sanctuary tour is a special opportunity to see several of the threatened species of nocturnal native animals which are being brought back from the edge of extinction (including the bizarre Bilby,  the Burrowing Bettong or boodie,  the Rufous Hare Wallaby or Wurrup, and others).

"Dryandra Woodland" - (downloadable from DEC's site; 560KB) information and trail guide leaflet by CALM, includes a simple map and brief description of each of the established trails in the area.

Dwarda & Congelin 1:50,000 CALM Operations Graphics series 2003/2004, Sheet 2232-3 & 2232-2.

Dryandra 1:50,000 Sheet (Forests Department, 1978).

"Forests on Foot (40 walks in W.A.)" by Meney & Brown, 1985, pp.87-92 (Wescolour Press, Fremantle).  The walk on this page captures some sections of the two-day walk originally well-described in that book.

Wikipedia-Dryandra Woodland  -

A good article, including a useful additional reference list.

"Dryandra Woodland" - visitor information leaflet by CALM. This includes a brief history of the park, its flora and fauna and the conservation programme. 

"Woodland Wonderland"  article by D. Mitchell & N.Higgs, in Landscope magazine (CALM), Vol.9, No.4, Winter 1994, pp.28-35.

"A Wonderful Woodland"  article by A.Desmond & M.Boothey, in Landscope magazine (CALM), Vol.13, No.1, Spring 1997, pp.36-41.

"Exploring the Wheatbelt Woodlands" by Mike Bamford, 1995 (CALM), provides a good introduction to the flora and fauna of  remnant woodlands in the region.

"Travellers guide to the Parks & Reserves of Western Australia" by Simon Nevill, 2001, pp.106-112 (Simon Nevill Publications) includes a good summary and photos. 

Also DEC's website summary "Dryandra Woodland" and Frank O'Connors website for a bird spotter's summary.

"Native Trees of Dryandra and Nearby Districts" by Ken Wallace, CALM, (undated).

"Dryandra Woodland Management Plan 1995-2005" by Dept. of Conservation and Land Management (CALM). - See pdf version (673KB) which also has summaries of the flora & fauna, geology, history, future park plans, etc.

Head north up the road from the Start point at Dryandra Village and veer east to follow Gura Road uphill to reach waypt '2' after 1.7 km. Then turn left to follow (in reverse direction) the marked 'Woylie Walk' for almost 1 km SW until the track takes a left (SE) turn. Continue SSW off-track and downhill for a further 1 km to reach Tomingley Road at waypt '3' near a stream course. Follow the road westward for about 400m and turn left into Weirah Road and  locate the markers to the start and end of the 'Ochre Trail'  on the right and left hand side of the road respectively at approx 'OCHRE'.  Turn left off Weirah Road to waypt '5' and follow the Ochre Trail in reverse direction via waypoints '5' to '7', through delightful open woodlands, past an ancient aboriginal red ochre pit, and up a laterite breakaway, to reach a laterite plateau with views to farming pasture lands to the SE and finally to reach the Dryandra Firetower ('FIRETR'). Walk about 130m to waypt '10' south of the firetower on a continuation of Weirah Road (as Tower Road) to an intersection with a side track on the right. Head initially westward off-track from this intersection to descend a breakaway and cross dry stream gullies to  reach waypt '10A'.  Veer approx. SW and reach a N-S vehicle track (Baaluc Road) at '10B', about 1km from the firetower. Cross the road and continue approx. SW for 700m to '10C', initially ascending another breakaway and getting some further views to the SE, then veer WNW, and after 500m cross another vehicle track (Marri Road) at '11'. Continue WNW across gentle terrain for about 800m to '12' and then veer NW along the western edge of a breakaway until descending to cross a stream course and reach Tomingley Road ('TOM-RD') about 1 km after '12'.  This is about the Halfway Point on the walk.  Cross the road and veer NNW to skirt the flanks of a breakaway which rises to the NW. Near the top of the breakaway at waypt '14' veer NE to descend and cross gentle terrain until reaching another breakaway after about 700m. Climb the breakaway but skirt around the eastern side of the often thick Golden Dryandra shrubs covering the laterite plateau, to reach a small grouping of balgas (grass trees) at 'BALGA'.  Continue to '15' and then veer approx. east, descending/ascending a series of breakaways to eventually reach at 'MARRI' (1.6km from '15') the signposted T-intersection of a N-S vehicle track (Marri Road) with an eastward vehicle track (Newell Road). Follow Newell Road ENE for about 2.5 kms veering NE at '17' at the T-intersection with a side track. At '17A' turn right to leave Newell Road to initially follow an old overgrown logging track, but soon veer left off that track to head approx. eastward   to reach waypt '2' again on Gura Road after about 1km. Cross Gura Road at this point to continue ESE by following the marked Woylie Trail via waypoints '18' and '19' to pass  through a sheoak thicket (Allocasuarina sp.).  The Trail then turns southward to re-cross Gura Road and climb through brown mallet plantations (via '19A', '19B') and then descend southward (via '20' and '21') to cross Tomingley Road at '22'. Continue on the Woylie Trail via '23' to reach the Old Mill Dam location (where there are interesting CALM information displays).  Then return to the Village and Start point via waypt '24', either by taking a short route across the paddock west of the village cottages, or by following Tomingley Road east from the Old Mill Dam site.