2006 Bunbury - Day 2

I spent today down in the south of Bunbury. First stop was the Maiden Hill Reserve, where I got to see native tuart trees in the coastal ridge. Bunbury's done a better job than the new northern suburbs of Perth in preserving what was there previously, both with this and the new Usher-Dalyellup Regional Park and the Tuart Walk (commissioned by the Minister for Peel and the Southwest just days before I walked it). After seeing the new suburb of Dalyellup (actually within the Shire of Capel just beyond Bunbury's southern fringe) I have thought of several new slogans the developers could use:

* Just beyond the edge of civilisation!
* Dalyellup: The New Mindarie
* Just 40 convenient minutes' walk from a beach you can't get to!

Anyway, enough dissing of Dalyellup. I had a pretty quiet day thereafter and got to chat with some locals, then went back to the backpackers. Tomorrow is going to be a busy day.