Lake Walyungup
This lake is a salt lake, about 430 hectares and a maximum of 3.5 meters deep. In summer the lake dries out with the drought conditions.
There is landsailing at the lake. The Sandgropers Land Yacht club (based in Rockingham Western Australia) normally meets on Sunday afternoons at the dry lake bed. Due to the current COVID-19 situation those activities have been suspended.
The dry lake bed resembles desolate images seen in post apocalyptic movies.
In contrast, the vegetation surrounding the lake is dense and lush. One can easily picture dinosaurs roaming about like in the Jurassic Park movies.
Lake Walyungup was used as an artillery range in the World War II era and is still potentially contaminated with Unexploded Ordinance. On our walk we came across this "information" sign.
The next picture shows the cool gals we found behind it.
Australian Golden Orb Weaving Spiders
(Taken loosely from the Brisbane Times):
Researchers say the synthetics based on the golden orb's spider silk could be far tougher than what surgeons used for ligaments, reconstruction, skin grafts and sutures, which all have a limited lifespan.
It could also be used for bulletproof clothing and fishing nets.
Although it would be great to be able to farm the spiders to produce more of the super-strong silk, Mrs. Kerr said that wasn't possible. "The natural product is just amazing but spiders can't be farmed like a silk worm because the spiders just eat each other".