EXMOUTH Karijini Nanutarra TOMNational Roadhouse Park ecoretreat PRICE karijini CORAL BAY Minilya Roadhouse ecoretreat Kennedy Range Mount National Park Augustus Nat. Park karijini JUNCTION CARNARVON Station Shark Bay MONKEY Wooramel MIA Roadhouse

Overlander Roadhouse MURCHISON Billabong SETTLEMENT Experience the icons of the Roadhouse Wooleen Station Kalbarri KALBARRI Nat. Pk.

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Cape Naturaliste Katanning Jerramungup Fitzgerald River Busselton Gnowangerup Kojonup National Park Ongerup Margaret Nannup Bridgetown River colours of Mt Augustus Ancient Karijini Gorges Shark Bay Manjimup Bremer Bay Augusta Mt. Barker Cape Riche Cape Leeuwin Pemberton

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EXMOUTH Karijini Eco Retreat Home to more than 12,000 species of wildflowers, over half of which are found Karijini Nanutarra TOM National nowhere else on earth, ’s wildflower season (Jun.-Nov.) ranks Roadhouse PRICE Park Tropic of Capricorn as one of the world’s greatest ‘bloom booms’. Follow this route and you won’t lose CORAL BAY scent of a bouquet of additional icons such as the Pinnacles desert, wild dolphins Minilya Roadhouse of Monkey Mia, Ningaloo Reef Marine Park, ancient Karijini gorges, Mt. Augustus Kennedy Range Mount National Park Augustus Nat. Park and the historic townscapes along the Outback Wool Wagon Pathway GASCOYNE JUNCTION Bidgemia Station CARNARVON Carnegie Shark Bay Day 4: Murchison Settlement - Gascoyne Junction 260km, Park, Wintersun Caravan Park, Red Bluff and Station, Lake MONKEY Carnegie Wooramel 3 hours . MIA Roadhouse Stop at Bilung Pool. On the banks of , the town is Day 11: Carnarvon - Shark Bay 324km, 4 hours Overlander Roadhouse MURCHISON a centre for sheep and wheat stations. Everlastings along roadside on the turn off to Shark Bay. Visit Billabong SETTLEMENT Accom options: Gascoyne Junction - cara park, camping. Nearby, Francois Peron N.P. with Shark Bay Daisy, Wattles, Dampiera and Wooleen Station ton Roadhouse ur arb W Bidgemia Station,Cosmo stdNewbery rooms, homestead, cara park, camp purple peas.

Y Kalbarri WA KALBARRI Nat. Pk. Day 5: Gascoyne Junction - Mt Augustus 307km, 4 hours Accom options: Heritage Resort, Oceanside Village OUTBACK Visit Kennedy RangeLaverton N.P boasting cliffs, canyons and wildlife. Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort, Dirk Hartog Island, Carbla Station, Leonora MULLEWA Gwalia Lake NORTHAMPTON Travel NE to Mt AugustusCarey "Annee Beadell Hwy" N.P, Australia’s largest monolith, Hamelin Station Stay. Lake Morapoi Ballard Station Kookynie Lake GERALDTON Raeside MINGENEW surroundedNiagara Damby purple mulla mulla. MORAWA Day 12: Shark Bay - Kalbarri 370km, 4.45 hours DONGARA PERENJORI AccomMenzies options: Cobra Station Bangemall Inn – motel rooms, Kalbarri N.P. is home to coastal cliffs and deep river gorges, Lake N THREE SPRINGS cara park, camp,Rebecca Mt Augustus Tourist Park – std rooms, cara park, roughly 800 species of flora, many endemic species, including Ora Banda Broad Arrow KALGOORLIE- DALWALLINU camp BOULDER the Kalbarri spider orchid. 8

JURIEN BAY Coolgardie CERVANTES Day 6: Mt AugustusKambalda - Karijini Eco Retreat 541km, 8 hours Accom options: Kalbarri Palm Resort, Kalbarri Beach Resort, WONGAN HILLS Lake Lefroy INDIAN LANCELIN NEW NORCIA Travel the 4WD Pingandy Rd past Dooly Downs and Ashburton Kalbarri Edge Resort, Kalbarri Reef Villas Lake Cowan la OCEAN Downs, to Tom Price, thenEuc into gorge country around Karijini Eco Kalbarri Seafront Villas, Murchison Caravan Park, Murchison

Fraser Norseman Range Lake Station Retreat.Johnston House Station, Riverside Sanctuary PERTH Lake Hope Lake Lake Dundas Accom: KarijiniGilmore Eco Retreat - Karijini N.P. Day 13: Kalbarri - Geraldton 152km, 1.5 hours Frank Hann Yealering Nat. Park Lake Pinjarra 4 Sharpe Peak Charles Salmon Gums 3 Cuballing Nat. Park ark

Wickepin Accom options: Deluxe P tents with private facilities, campsites, Many varieties of wildflowers along this drive via Northampton. Williams Narrogin Harrismith 46 Lake King Grass Patch 5 Lake Grace Newdegate Quindanning Kukerin 3 Dumbleyung caravan sites Detour north of Geraldton into Chapman Valley where wildflowers COLLIE Darkan Wagin Ravensthorpe Cape Arid Nat. BUNBURY Arthur Nyabing Duranillin River 7 abound. Cape Naturaliste Katanning Day 7: KarijiniStokes ESPERANCE National Park Day 1: Perth - Dalwallinu 273km, 3 hours Jerramungup Nat. Park Fitzgerald River Busselton Gnowangerup Hopetoun Cape Le Grand Kojonup National Park Nat. Park Ongerup Visit monastic town of NewMargaret Norcia.Nannup TravelBridgetown to Wongan Hills with Travel to east of N.P to visitor centre viewing Dales Gorge, Circular Accom options: Broadwater Mariner Resort, Intown Apartments, River Manjimup Bremer Bay Pool and FortescueSealed Major Road Falls. Enjoy dinner at the Karijini Eco Retreat Ocean West Holiday Units, Sunset Beach Holiday Park nature reserves and wildflowersAugusta before Dalwallinu forMt. Barker WreathCape Riche Cape Leeuwin Pemberton Sealed Minor Road Unsealed Road Restaurant.Track Leschenaultia. Walpole Denmark Day 14: Geraldton - Cervantes via Mingenew 377km, ALBANY Four Wheel Drive AccomMMaMap psoptions: susupplisuppliedpplil edd bybRb RRACWA. For a moreDalwallinu detailed map visit an Wheatland Motel, Dalwallinu Hotel, Day0 8:25 Karijini50 75 National100 Park 4.5 hours RAC Member Service Centre or order online at www.rac.com.au SOUTHERN OCEAN Scale in Kilometres B&B’s, C caraCopyright RACW Apark, 2010 camp Enjoy the stunning nearby Joffre Gorge, Weano Gorge, Knox Head south via Dongara to Mingenew and Coalseam Day 2: Dalwallinu - Mullewa 243km, 3 hours Gorge and Joffre Falls. Conservation Park, with white, pink and yellow everlastings. See Wreath Leschenaultia and Church of St Joseph in Perenjori. Day 9: Karijini - Exmouth 700km, 7.5 hours Three Springs, Carnamah and Coorow offer spectacular displays. Visit Morawa’s Church of the Holy Cross, Yalgoo’s architecture Travel to Tom Price. Continue via Doradeen Rd and Milne Rd, Lesueur N.P. has more than 800 species. and Chapel of St Hyacinth. Head to Mullewa. Nameless Valley Drv and Nanutarra Drv. Turn left at Nanutarra Accom options: Cervantes Edge Resort, Cervantes Pinnacles Accom options: Railway Hotel, cara park, camp Roadhouse at NW Coastal Hwy, right at Burkett Rd into Exmouth. Motel, Cervantes Lodge, Cervantes Holiday Homes, Cervantes Nearby: Wandina Homestead, Pindar Guest House Discover Cape Range National Park’s 630 species of flowers, Caravan Park beaches and canyons. Day 3: Mullewa - Murchison Settlement 239km, 3 hours Day 15: Cervantes - Perth 220km, 2.5 hours See vistas of everlastings. Perhaps overnight at Murchison Accom options: Novotel Ningaloo Resort, Exmouth Escape Head to Pinnacles seeing areas of heath, acacia and myrtle, Settlement or consider Wooleen Station which has station tours Resort, Exmouth Cape Holiday Park, Ningaloo Lodge, Potshot banksias and casuarinas. Return to Perth along Indian Ocean of everlastings. Resort, Sal Salis, Bullara Station, Station Drive. Accom options: Murchison Settlement - Oasis Roadhouse motel Day 10: Exmouth - Carnarvon 367km, 4 hours & cara park, camp Drive to Carnarvon sees displays of Parakeelya, purple vetch, Nearby, Wooleen Station, homestead rooms, 2BR aparts, cara northern bluebells and everlastings. park, camp Accom options: Best Western Hospitality Inn, Coral Coast Tourist

For further information on Karijini Eco Retreat go to: www.karijiniecoretreat.com.au E: [email protected] Wildflowers bloom seasonally and subject to seasonal variations and weather conditions. Map not to scale & route is intended as guide only. Contact RAC or petrol stations for detailed maps. Some roads are unsealed. 4WD recommended. Check road conditions before you depart.