Canning Campsite

June, 2000

On the Brookton Highway and thirty kilometers from where the Brookton Highway joins the Albany Highway in Armadale there is a rather large carpark for users of the Bibbulmun Track. It is well marked and at this point where the Bibbulmun Track crosses the Brookton Highway, overhead powerlines head north and south. Two kilometers to the north there is the Brookton Campsite and eight kilometers to the south there is the Canning Campsite. It is possible to get within 4 kilometers of the Canning Campsite by driving to Abyssinia Rock, on a half-decent dirt road, if you know the way.

Top right: just coming into flower. Top middle: insect eating plants near 'coral' plants on Abyssinia Rock. Top left: There was a stand of Banksia along the track. Above: Abyssinia Rock - its in 3 parts. Right: Brian Wright, George Goode and Keith Banwell. Below: The Canning Campsite. Below Right; I liked this section of the log book (although its not really for the purpose of drawing in).

Above: A section subject to Dieback Disease. Right: Some sections of the track; it varied greatly, some flat some mountanous, some old roadway, some very narrow, some sandy, some rocky and some chockers with bauxite.

Riding bikes on the Bibbulmun Track. Good fun but illegal. The tyres dig up the track, push over rocks and logs, break up the ground, make grooves in the ground, make rivulets, cause erosion. A danger to hikers and small animals.