Gooralong

There is free camping in the pine tree area of Gooralong Park Jarradale with good toilets and water to boil.

You can get Western grey kangaroos hopping straight through camp and the Twenty eights and Kookaburras will come around your campsite while you eat. (Please don't feed them bread).

The Gooralong brook runs through here and you can do walk trails all the way to Serpentine Falls through Kitty's Gorge which is approx. a 5 hour walk, you will need to get a map from the old Post Office in town to help you get started. I have seen a number of people lost in this area. There are good views along the gorge especially on a sunny winters day. Be careful of snakes and hungry meat ants. (One day we went for a quick walk along the trail not intending to go far and I only had thongs on. It wasn't long until we were surrounded by those nasty dark red meat ants and my feet got eaten. No amount of shaking or leaping in the air would get them off, so, as I had some toilet paper with me I wrapped up my feet and wet the paper in the brook and hurried back to camp. Never ever go
for a stroll without proper foot ware!)

White Faced Heron at Gooralong Brook

My family and I enjoy camping and playing at the creek (watch out that the yabbies and leeches don't get you) and its a great day trip.

Also worth the walk is 'Stacey's Track' that starts opposite the town cemetery just before entering this park or you can start the walk from inside this park. It is approx. a one hour return easy walk through some old growth Jarrah, ancient Grass tress and you may spot an Upright Snottygobble. I saw Scarlet robins, Western Rosella's eating the Jarrah seeds, Variegated fairy wrens, silver eyes that hopped along the ground and searched for insects through the leaves only about a metre from me, Kookaburra's sitting on branches watching the day go by, Twenty eight parrots, Black cockatoo's
eating the Marri seeds, Monarch butterflies fluttering around looking for a mate

and two different skinks basking in the sun. Lea's frog can be heard in the Brook and the Quacking frog can be heard further up the slopes near the brook. In winter keep an eye out for different types of fungi along the track. A brushtail possum narrowly missed being hit on the road leaving Jarradale.