flowering plants in the area. the in plants flowering eastern and western states. western and eastern vigorous birds are important pollinators for a number of of number a for pollinators important are birds vigorous of Western Australia, improving communications between the the between communications improving Australia, Western of honeyeaters, provide a background melody. These active and and active These melody. background a provide honeyeaters, The telegraph line played a significant part in the settlement settlement the in part significant a played line telegraph The moving along the coast between May and October. October. and May between coast the along moving Song birds, including the New Holland and tawny-crowned tawny-crowned and Holland New the including birds, Song Line in 1875−1877, which ran through the present day park. park. day present the through ran which 1875−1877, in Line Migratory humpback and southern right whales are often seen seen often are whales right southern and humpback Migratory foundation for the construction of the Intercolonial Telegraph Telegraph Intercolonial the of construction the for foundation evapotranspiration during hot, dry summers. dry hot, during evapotranspiration successful crossing by Forrest from Perth to Adelaide laid the the laid Adelaide to Perth from Forrest by crossing successful repeated creaking of an unoiled cart-wheel. cart-wheel. unoiled an of creaking repeated the prickly to the soft and silky, are adapted to reduce reduce to adapted are silky, and soft the to prickly the Laurie’ so possibly the peak was named after this horse. The The horse. this after named was peak the possibly so Laurie’ the dibbler and the western whipbird, which sounds like the the like sounds which whipbird, western the and dibbler the of colour. The different leaf shapes and textures, from from textures, and shapes leaf different The colour. of attempted to ascend”. One of his horses was named ‘Annie ‘Annie named was horses his of One ascend”. to attempted in this area, including a small carnivorous marsupial called called marsupial carnivorous small a including area, this in is a different species, providing an ever-changing canvas canvas ever-changing an providing species, different a is John Forrest in 1870 as being “the steepest hill I have ever ever have I hill steepest “the being as 1870 in Forrest John A number of threatened animal species have been found found been have species animal threatened of number A there are flowers to delight the eye, at every step there there step every at eye, the delight to flowers are there Napoleon skink. Napoleon Annie Peak in the Eyre Range is mentioned by the explorer explorer the by mentioned is Range Eyre the in Peak Annie beauty of the park’s heath-lands. Throughout the year year the Throughout heath-lands. park’s the of beauty couldn’t have been more wrong! wrong! more been have couldn’t scabra ), which bears male and female flowers on different different on flowers female and male bears which ), The No Tree Hill walk is an opportunity to enjoy the natural natural the enjoy to opportunity an is walk Hill Tree No The Aboriginal guide, in 1841. in guide, Aboriginal hills’, naming them West, Mid and East Mount Barren. He He Barren. Mount East and Mid West, them naming hills’, Anarthria Anarthria leaves (‘carinatus’ means keeled), or a rush ( rush a or keeled), means (‘carinatus’ leaves who walked from South Australia to Albany with Wylie, his his Wylie, with Albany to Australia South from walked who life forms of the park, as he referred to the peaks as ‘barren ‘barren as peaks the to referred he as park, the of forms life black hairs on the tail. tail. the on hairs black white flowers (‘leucopogon’ means white beard) and keeled keeled and beard) white means (‘leucopogon’ flowers white ‘Culham’ at Toodyay. The range honours Edward John Eyre, Eyre, John Edward honours range The Toodyay. at ‘Culham’ aboard HMS Investigator in 1802, was unaware of the unique unique the of unaware was 1802, in Investigator HMS aboard size, black and white ears, black hands and feet, and a crest of of crest a and feet, and hands black ears, white and black size, Leucopogon carinatus Leucopogon ), with with ), ( beard-heath a include These inlet were named after his son-in-law Samuel Pole Phillips of of Phillips Pole Samuel son-in-law his after named were inlet to their endeavours. The English explorer Matthew Flinders, Flinders, Matthew explorer English The endeavours. their to from the more common western grey kangaroo, by its smaller smaller its by kangaroo, grey western common more the from A variety of plant types can be found along this short walk. walk. short this along found be can types plant of variety A prominent features named by J.S. Roe in 1848. The river and and river The 1848. in Roe J.S. by named features prominent and many plant, animal and geographic names are accredited accredited are names geographic and animal plant, many and they are often seen crossing this track. It can be distinguished distinguished be can It track. this crossing seen often are they Peak (457m). Peak the Phillips River Valley to Culham Inlet and Eyre Range, Range, Eyre and Inlet Culham to Valley River Phillips the the south-coast in 1792 and 1803 in separate expeditions expeditions separate in 1803 and 1792 in south-coast the Look out for the western brush (or black-gloved) wallaby as as wallaby black-gloved) (or brush western the for out Look (311m) and the broad Eyre Range, which summits at Annie Annie at summits which Range, Eyre broad the and (311m) takes you to the real summit. The hilltop offers views across across views offers hilltop The summit. real the to you takes honour of Napoleon Bonaparte. French naturalists explored explored naturalists French Bonaparte. Napoleon of honour 5km on the four-wheel-drive track to the signposted walk. walk. signposted the to track four-wheel-drive the on 5km To the east is the rugged outline of East Mount Barren Barren Mount East of outline rugged the is east the To metres cross a shallow gully before a short, steep climb climb steep short, a before gully shallow a cross metres Egernia napoleonis Egernia ), named in in named ), crevice or Napoleon skink ( skink Napoleon or crevice along this gravel road to its end then continue for a further further a for continue then end its to road gravel this along park. the in peak highest the is which (510m), Peak Thumb weeping gums, to a false summit. The final few hundred hundred few final The summit. false a to gums, weeping The quartzite rocks provide a home for the south-western south-western the for home a provide rocks quartzite The Road (turnoff from the Hopetoun-Ravensthorpe Road). Drive Drive Road). Hopetoun-Ravensthorpe the from (turnoff Road Woolbernup Hill (320m), Mid Mount Barren (454m) and and (454m) Barren Mount Mid (320m), Hill Woolbernup The path leads gently uphill, passing through a grove of of grove a through passing uphill, gently leads path The above sea level. Access to the walktrail is from John Forrest Forrest John from is walktrail the to Access level. sea above leaved dryandra, mountain banksia and various clawflowers. clawflowers. various and banksia mountain dryandra, leaved the three central peaks of the Barrens peaks including including peaks Barrens the of peaks central three the a class 3 walk. Allow 2 hours return. No Tree Hill is 262m 262m is Hill Tree No return. hours 2 Allow walk. 3 class a display. Species include the Barrens regelia, Qualup bell, oak- bell, Qualup regelia, Barrens the include Species display. Range, which reach 395m above sea level. Beyond are are Beyond level. sea above 395m reach which Range, This is a moderately easy walk to No Tree Hill and is classified classified is and Hill Tree No to walk easy moderately a is This and the variety of plants provide an ever-changing year-round year-round ever-changing an provide plants of variety the and Banksia violacea Banksia right Above nutans Banksia Above validus Calo Top To the west are the three sharp peaks of the Whoogarup Whoogarup the of peaks sharp three the are west the To . 6km return – allow 2 hours 2 allow – return 6km The walk meanders through spectacular quartzite formations formations quartzite spectacular through meanders walk The spears sticking out of his body. body. his of out sticking spears No Tree Hill Tree No Culham Inlet and beyond to Hopetoun. Hopetoun. to beyond and Inlet Culham Aboriginal legend, the weeping gums are the remains of the the of remains the are gums weeping the legend, Aboriginal breathtaking views over Barrens Beach, Four Mile Beach, Beach, Mile Four Beach, Barrens over views breathtaking to Sepulcralis Hill, where they speared him. According to to According him. speared they where Hill, Sepulcralis to concrete pathway to the lookout, where you can enjoy enjoy can you where lookout, the to pathway concrete decided to take revenge on this thief, so tracked him down down him tracked so thief, this on revenge take to decided 1770. in discovery of voyage his wheelchair access is possible from the car park along a a along park car the from possible is access wheelchair the wife of a clan member who lived in this area. The clan clan The area. this in lived who member clan a of wife the naturalist Joseph Banks, who accompanied Captain Cook on on Cook Captain accompanied who Banks, Joseph naturalist on the south-east side of East Mount Barren.