Serpentine National Park

West Coast Australia


Densely forested, often steep area with walking tracks and picnic areas. The wildflowers strut their stuff between July and November; this is also when the cascading Serpentine Falls are at their most effervescent (swim at your own peril).


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1. Serpentine Falls

0.29 MILES

This 15m sluice of water is within Serpentine National Park, feathering down the face of a smooth granite escarpment. Falls Rd is off the South Western…

2. Millbrook Winery

2.83 MILES

Millbrook's lush vine rows and ponds come a a total surprise, nooked into the dry jarrah-clad hillsides the middle of somewhere close to nowhere…

3. Old Post Office

3.8 MILES

Jarrahdale's old white weatherboard post office was built in 1896, and now houses a small local history museum with some amazing old images (jumbo jarrah!…

4. Rockingham Museum

17.29 MILES

Run by the local historical society, Rockingham's dinky little art-deco museum (a former library, built in 1947) has plenty of old photos, maps and rusty…

5. Araluen Botanic Park

17.99 MILES

South of Kalamunda, just off Brookton Hwy, is Araluen Botanic Park. Constructed in the 1920s by the Young Australia League (YAL) as a bush retreat for…

6. Shoalwater Islands Marine Park

18.95 MILES

Just a few minutes' paddle, swim or boat ride away from the shore 5km south of Rockingham is strictly protected Penguin Island, home to penguins, silver…

7. Schoolhouse

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Across the street from the main Edenvale Homestead, Pinjarra's original red-brick schoolhouse (1860) is now a quilting workshop. It operated as a school…

8. St John's Church

19.31 MILES

St John's Church (1861–63), built from mud bricks, sits beside a heritage rose garden and a hushed, shady cemetery. Fremantle convicts worked on the…

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