The Kojonup Country & Wildflower Festival is a fun- filled family weekend with the following highlights:

• Wildflower Exhibition
• Art & Craft Displays and Sales
• Garden Spectacular
• Country Markets and Food Stalls
• Children's Rides and Entertainment
• Rattle on the Train or Ride a Pony
• Open Gardens
• Sunday at the Spring - Thanksgiving Church Service
  Multicultural Picnic and Entertainment
• Visits:
  Historic Barracks Museum and
  Elverds Cottage
  Proandra Flowers
  Orchid Nursery
  Flora and Fauna Sanctuary
  Emu and Ostrich Farm
  Woodenavacloo
  

  1.00pm SUNDAY 1st OCTOBER 2000

  The Australian Bush Heritage Fund invites our WA donors and supporters to join us 
  in a guided walk through Wandoo and wildflowers to a wetland on the Bush Heritage Block at Kojonup

  The Kojonup Bush Heritage Reserve is a valuable area (390 ha) of wandoo woodland purchased by ABHF in December 1996. The reserve also contains yate woodland, sheoak and mallet groves, melaleuca thickets, patches of banksia, and areas of open heath.

  Wildflower and bird experts will lead the walk to see orchids and other wildflowers, and the many birds present on the reserve. A wetland enthusiast will talk briefly about the ecology of the ephemeral wetland on the reserve. We anticipate a 3.5 hour walk including afternoon tea.

  To catch the bus from Kojonup to the block, or to follow the bus in your own car, meet at 12.10 pm outside the Tourist Information Centre at the old Railway Station on Benn Parade in Kojonup. For those travelling directly to the block, please park near the temporary ‘ABHF Wildflower Walk’ sign on Mission Road by 12.45pm.

  The block is 30 km by road from Kojonup. Follow the signs from the junction of Albany Highway and Cherry Tree Pool approx. 16km north of Kojonup.

  Please bring a picnic afternoon tea, a hat, drinking water to carry, walking shoes/boots and binoculars. To help reduce the risk of spreading plant diseases, such as dieback, in the block, we ask you to clean any dirt or mud from your footwear before you arrive at the block.

  The walk is one of the activities associated with the Kojonup Country Wildflower Festival. The Festival runs over the long weekend of 30 September – 2 October and features a range of activities, including an excellent local wildflower display in the RSL Hall from the 30 September – 8 October.

  If you will be attending the walk, please RSVP to Margaret Robertson on (08) 9842 8375. Alternatively, you can send an email to m.robertson@ecu.edu.au. For further information about other Festival activities, contact Glenys Russell from the Kojonup Tourist Association on (08) 9831 1511 or email to kojonuptouristassn@bigpond.com.