Dryandra Woodland National Park is thirty minute drive from Narrogin or two hours south east of Perth. It is 15,000 hectares of remanent woodland – a taste of what the Wheatbelt was before colonisation. It is the home to some of Australia’s most at risk animals and because of this the Western Shield program was developed to minimise the effects of feral predators – foxes and cats – and allow the native fauna to re-established.

 

For us Dryandra has attained an almost mythical status. We have been going for years, and we always want to go again. Every time we always have some kind of amazing animal interaction whether it be Wedge-tailed Eagles, Woylies, Echidnas, Ring Tailed Possums or kangaroos.

 

Dryandra is really famous for its Numbats, and in all the years we have been visiting we’ve never seen one. The only Numbat I’ve seen was at Perth Zoo, and they can be tricky to see there too.

 

 

This visit the plan was quite simple. After the previous hot day and with another forecast we planned to stake out the Old Mill Dam and try and catch the early morning activity at the waters edge. It was a great morning the only problem photographically was the heat haze over the water, but that only effected the shots where the subject was on the other side of the water. Anything I was close to was pin sharp.