It was just after ten when we found ourselves in Mullewa, located the site of the Festival, paid our $5 each and gathered the latest intelligence re. locations worth visiting. The Festival was located in a local hall, and wasn't, if you looked at it with the steely eye of a big-city Expo-goer, all that impressive.
You paid at the door, and the centre of the hall was filled with two large, and certainly impressive displays of wildflower specimens built up into what you could regard as roadside banks in a cutting or such like, an opportunity to see the variety that was out there in the wild in one place. As a result, it’s a perfect spot for those who wanted a look, and didn't want to spend much time doing so.
The hardened viewer would, of course, have been out searching the back blocks, and we were somewhere between the two extremes, and having gathered requisite intelligence decided that the best prospect was the Wildflower Trail in town that runs in a 2.8 km loop around the local water supply.