Where are we now???

If you wanted photos here is a MILLION of our supposedly short journey through what we like to call "The Jungle"; however, we ended up taking the longest trail and ventured to a place we have never been "The other half of the jungle" but planned to go a different day!! No time like the present to explore at random hahaha Now reality sinks in that I have a lot more studying to do!!

The view from the bottom of my stairs (Facing North)

With my back to the stairs of my apartment - this is to the right (east)! YAY LAUNDRY SO CLOSE!

To the left (west) of my stairs

My stairs on the left and underneath my stairs and beyond

Right behind our apartment

To the West when walking behind my apartment

TO the east from behind my apartment

Still heading south - TV room to the right (West) and another apartment to the left (east)

Courtyard to TV room and study room

South Carpark

SAND PATCH!

a path to "Narnia" - The small patch of woods that I take to campus, that trail is for another post! :)

Towards campus - Discovery Way. Chiropractic building is the one you can see. Carpark 7 is off to the right of the photo

West part of Discovery Drive

Driveway to the carpark (which is now on the left of the picture)

Thats the Chiropractic building again

cool car!! :)

East view of the road right before "The Jungle" - which is to the right of this picture

West direction of the road - "The Jungle" is to the left of the photo

The campus farm is straight ahead (I'm facing east)

directly behind the last photo

Left back to Carpark just further down from where I entered. Straight to Farm. Left to go deeper into "The Jungle"

Left back to carpark (again)

To the right (more south) where we are headed

Paths for restoration vehicles or farm vehicles

Farm path if needed

Entering "The Deep Jungle" :)

A Banksia pod (those green and orange plants I showed in earlier posts) The seeds open the most after a fire event. "The Jungle" has a huge burnt section from 2010. It is also trying to recover but invasive species have thrived since the fire and there is Dieback - a soil-born water mold that attracts roots towards it and then it steals vital nutrients from the plants. Must always were clean shoes when entering "The Jungle" and do not deviate from the path to try and reduce spread of the mold

some other pods still on the tree

Short Yellow and Purple trail to the West

We headed East on the purple and yellow trail (there should be a map near the end to explain the trails)

Cool burnt tree from 2010 fire

They bloom in April/May sooo you can bet you will get photos!

The pods from earlier are from those plants

straight hidden path to the farm

to the south/ right where the trail is supposed to go

To the North/left is the farm road

through the hidden path to find the animals!

back north to the farm road

we turned back to the south to find SHEEP!

SOO many of these growing on vines and after we broke it open it looked like a tomato! we didn't eat it! don't worry!

back towards the way we came from

a path that follows the edge of the farm farther south. we kept on going west

Road that leads back to the carpark, but this time we went straight to find a whole new area instead of going back home

down the road and where we came out of "The Jungle"

COOLEST WILDLIFE CROSSING EVER!! Go Quendas (related to bandicoots)

So we started above that You are here red mark at the Yellow and purple paths. Took that to the right/east then stayed on the purple path next to the farm till we started going west. On this trip we stayed on the purple and white trail all the way west instead of taking the yellow and white through the middle like we have done before. I just back tracked down the white trail to get a picture of this sign before we went straight at the murdoch university sign

The campus fields we had no idea existed!

THIS FIELD WAS SOOOOO FLAT THAT IT BLEW MY MIND

Nature reserve on the other side of the street, trying to find a way in!

FAVORITE TREE!!

Cool cottage/ Hanzel and Gretel looking house

CRAZY ASS SPIDER!!!! It was HUGE and had pincer feet!! pretty sure it was poisonous

WE FOUND AN ENTRANCE!

North Lake Reserve!

The street lights look green on my ipad and I love it! haha we are finally heading back towards dorms and SOOOO thankful to be on concrete and not sand anymore!!

 

Cute little siting area! :)

SO MUCH SAND!!! that is all I can say for our adventure!! Soo much sand!! my ankles and calves have NEVER been so tired than after almost a 3 hours hike through DEEEP DEEEP sand!!