Gairdner Trail

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A short Class 3 loop of roughly 1.8-2.5km in Lesueur National Park starting at the Drummond recreation area, per DBCA (exact distance varies slightly between two DBCA pages).

☰ Trail details

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Distance

1.73 km

Est. time

27 min

Elevation gain

20 m

Route type

Loop

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In an emergency

Call 000 for police, fire or ambulance — Australia's emergency number works even with a weak signal, and without a SIM if any carrier has coverage.

You're in Lesueur National Park, Jurien Bay, WA. Mobile reception in this area is not guaranteed — this is exactly why the offline map and GPS position on this page work without signal.

Tell someone your plan and expected return time before you set off. A PLB is the most reliable backup where there's no reception at all.

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Species to look for on this trail

Ancient trees and rare flora confirmed in this park. Spot one? Add it as a sighting pin below.

Mount Lesueur Grevillea

Grevillea batrachioides

Critically Endangered, single wild population▾

Critically Endangered, single wild population

Known from a single wild population of around 45 adult plants in the Mount Lesueur area, this grevillea is listed Endangered federally and Critically Endangered in WA, threatened by dieback disease and inappropriate fire regimes.

How to spot it

Shrub 0.5-2m tall with bluish-tinted branchlets and narrow, rolled-edge pinnate leaves 10-40mm long; irregular pink flowers in spike-like clusters at branch tips from October to December. Restricted to the Mount Lesueur area within Lesueur National Park.

Family Proteaceae · Source: Wikipedia — Grevillea batrachioides

Photo: Geoff Derrin (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons

Wildlife you might see on this trail

Animals confirmed in this park. Spot one? Add it as a sighting pin below.

Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo

Zanda latirostris

IUCN Endangered; EPBC-listed Endangered▾

IUCN Endangered; EPBC-listed Endangered

Endemic to south-western Australia's Wheatbelt and coastal plain, Carnaby's black-cockatoo has declined by more than 50% over the past 45 years due to widespread clearing of the eucalypt woodland and kwongan heath it depends on for nesting and feeding. Large flocks are a familiar sight over Perth's pine plantations and banksia woodlands outside the breeding season.

How to spot it

53-58cm, mostly greyish-black with fine pale scalloping, a short crest and a prominent white/off-white cheek patch and white tail band. The bill is comparatively short and stubby (compare to the longer-billed Baudin's black-cockatoo, which overlaps only at the eastern edge of its range). Call is a loud, wailing two-note 'wy-lah'. Look for them feeding on Banksia, Hakea and Grevillea seed pods, or flying over in noisy flocks at dusk heading to roost.

Family Cacatuidae · Source: Wikipedia; IUCN Red List

Photo: Paul Weber, paulweberphoto.com (CC BY 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons