Marks Offroad Adventures and Daytrips

 Today My Daughter and I went for a drive in the Perth Hills, we took the daughters Jeep today which she recently bought and wanted to get some Practice in driving on gravel and Bush tracks, the road to the POW camp is not a bad road to drive on it just has a a few rough patches and a lot of corregations, still accessible via 2WD, we headed off about mid morning stopped at the shop to get some food and drinks for the esky, then we made our way to the Jarrahdale POW camp, as I have mentioned before I am starting to video our trips, which I have been doing for the last few trips but not publishing many I have put a few on Youtube, but they still need a bit of work, you can find some of them on the link below. My Youtube Channel Some of the footage is from a poor quality Dashcam, and some I have been using my phone, my daughter has bought me a DJI Osmo for my birthday which is in a few days so my next trip I will be putting it to use, still working on the videos hopefully things will ...

 Today The wife and I had the day off together, so we decided to go out for lunch and go for a drive to Serpentine Falls, we actually haven't been there for quite some time, we have been to the dam on several occasions, but not the actual falls. We stoppped at Jarrahdale for Lunch at the Jarrahdale PO kitchen great service and good food I ordered the Bahn-mi and the wife a cheeseburger meal, we both enjoyed it. My lunch  The Wifes Lunch After finishing our meals we took the long scenic drive to the Falls, there is a pay station at the falls now, there used to be a ranger or someone manning the little office at the entrance to the falls there is a $17 dollar entrance fee at the time I made this post. We went for a walk to the falls and back and hung around for a little while then headed off home through Serpentine and the back roads. Here is a few snaps from The Falls and Picnic Area  All Images are Copyright Mark A. Gray - All rights reserved  

      Today my wife Karen and I both had days off from work so we decided to do a trip to go and look for wildflowers and have a look at the Canola fields as they are in bloom at the moment, we left around 11 am maybe a little earlier fueled up and headed off, driving through Roleystone along the Brookton highway keeping an eye out for wildflowers our first stop was West Dale at a lookout over looking Canola Fields, there is views almost all the way around except from the way we came.  Here are a few snaps from the West Dale lookout     I have recently Bought a cheapish drone to have a play with I hope to buy a better one in the Future the picture quality is not great on it but it is ok for viewing on smaller devices, I had hoped to put it up and take a couiple aerial shots but it was quite windy and I am still learning to fly it. I have also decide to take video footage of our trips, using my Phones and Cameras  I will put a link to it at the end of t...