Mundaring What?

Mundaring Weir. Mundaring What?
Basically a dam that was built between 1898 and 1902 to store water to be pumped as part of the Water Supply Scheme.

As then, the Mundaring Weir still provides ample of water to the surrounding areas. The weir has only been known to overflow twice and now seems highly unlikely to ever occur again.
Mundaring Weir has become part of the Perth Hills National Park Center.
Which is also home to a bit of the Bibbulmun track (approx 1,000 Km long).

Thanks to meeting up with my newly found friend, Asten and her delightful friends I now know the dark secret behind tremendous engineering project.

You see, Mundaring Weir was a proposed solution by Charles Yelverton O'Connor to aid in the lack of water systems (resulting in a plethora of deaths human, animal, and plants as well as rapid spread of disease e.g. typhoid from lack of fresh water). O'Connor devised and proposed a simple solution using hydraulics and steam that would pump water a whole 560 Km. Due to cost and vast distance the plan was viewed with harsh criticism.
O'Connor took the the criticism to heart, became flustered and then took his own life.

Shame, since the plan was built less than ten months after his death. Just goes to show you where there is a will there is a way, and to always hold faith.

Speaking of faith, having lived in Australia for six weeks and still not seeing a kangaroo; I, myself, had to continue to hold faith that one day I would indeed see a wild kangaroo.

Low and behold, after walking the Weir and before our picnic, I spot an entire mob of kangaroos!

Fun fact : the ratio of kangaroos to humans in Australia is 3:1.
Way to dominate, kangaroos!

Another fun fact, when an English man spotted the aforementioned animal and asked an Aboriginal what it was called, the Aborginal responded, "kangaroo" meaning "I don't understand" your question. And henceforth has been coined a Kangaroo.

FYI :

• a female kangaroo = flyer
• male kangaroo = boomer
• baby kanga = joey

Satisfied with our kangaroo finding the lot of us enjoyed our Aussie delights with a rose garden neighboring, and "28"s (a very colorful bird) singing near by.

Cheers to the innovative O'Connor and the finally spotted kangaroos,
Becca