We meet at the Visitors Tourist Centre at 9.00am, after a wet night. This Centre is well appointed with heaps of information, plus a very helpful lass who advised on a number of special sites to visit. This is a very attractive town well laid out and with lots of floral colour in the main street, either in the medium strip or in large pots on the footpath. We were told that Dallwallenu and its surrounds hosts the highest quantity of wattle varieties in the world.
We visit the bakery for lunch rolls and the IGA supermarket for some basic supplies for lunch or happy hour. We were all surprised when a staff member served customers with their fruit & vegetable requests.
First trip was off to the Mia Moon Rocks and Reserve area where we spent 2.5 hours hunting for and finding a range of orchids….donkey, bee, white spiders, spiders and sun 
Another lunch out of the back of the vehicles, and then back up the highway to Mt. Gibson area, where we had been yesterday viewing the wreath flowers. Approximately
2-3klm on further than we went yesterday the wreath flowers were in mass profusion. The round trip of circa 160 klm was well worth it to see this display.
On the way back to Dalwallenu we called into the Jeddenburg Reserve [located above Wubin] and were treated to mass displays of pink, white and yellow daisies……..just as well the girls have digital cameras as we would have had no film left if they were using old technology.
The end of the day, we had either hamburgers or fish & chips for tea at a local pizza shop…. We were allowed to bring wine, but the business had no glasses…..so they provided a cardboard milkshake carton for us to drink the wine from…….the wine must have been good as the whole bottle was consumed.
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