Yellagonga Regional Park

Yellagonga Regional Park

Located 20 kms north of Perth, the 1,400 hectare Yellagonga Regional Park features lakes and wetlands including Lake Joondalup. The area was an important camping area for local Nyoongar Aboriginal people and is named in honour of Yellagonga who was the leader of the Mooro clan of Nyoongar people who inhabited the region at the time of European settlement. Yellagonga Regional Park protects an important chain of wetlands and surrounding bushland of Banksia and Eucalypt woodland with many species of Western Australian Wildflowers. The diversity of these habitats supports a wide variety of wildlife. Nestled between the cities of Joondalup and Wanneroo, the park runs north-south and provides a number of excellent picnicking locations and walking trails.

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Entering Yellagonga Regional Park	Pathway through the Bushland	A glimpse of Lake Joondalup ahead	Grasstrees (Xanthorrhoea preissii)
Majestic Old Grasstree Xanthorrhoea preissi	Lake Joondalup with Neil Hawkins Park in foreground	Statue of Bibbulmun Woman and Dingo The woman is a Bibbulmun Yorga. The Bibbulmun tribe gets the name from the fact that they came from the hills country that follows the coastline. These hills have many features that resemble women's breasts or bibbys and also the fact that it is an area ruled by matrilineal moiety.	Statue of Bibbulmun Woman and Dingo The woman is wearing a kangaroo skin cloak called a buka (pronounced boo-ka). On her head she is wearing a yaggardi. She is holding a wooden dish called a yandi (East Coast Coolamon). The dish carries water, fire wood, food, babies. She is holding a wanna (digging stick).
Statue of Bibbulmun Woman and Dingo The dog is called dwerda and is the clan totem for Wanneroo, Yanchep, Moora areas. Borunga means totem and Borongorup is the birthplace of all Bibulmun just like the Garden of Eden to Christians. Wanneroo is a songline for a country. Wanneroo is derived from Bibbulmun sacra word which denotes the country of vegetable foods, yams, yanget and tuart roots. How coincidental the Southern Europeans set up market gardens in this area.	Walking towards the Lake	Closer to the Lake	People Feeding the Birds
Let Nature Feed Itself! Feeding the birds, fish and tortoises that you see living in Lake Joondalup can be harmful to their health. Artificial foods can cause sicknes and in some cases lead to their death.	Feeding the Birds Note the Sign at left!	Birds eating the Seed	Lake Joondalup looking South
Reeds along the edge of Lake	Islands in Lake Joondalup	Black Swans and Ducks	Duck and Ducklings Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa)
Duck and Ducklings Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa)	Ducks and Black Swan Note Cygnet near post	Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)	Black Swan with Cygnet Cygnus atratus
Black Swans with Cygnets Cygnus atratus	Goose and Ducks in shallows	Ducks in the Shade	Reflections Paperparks on the shoreline
Upper branches of Paperbark (Melaleuca)	Flowers of Paperbark (Melaleuca)	Fallen Bark from Paperbark (Melaleuca)	Banksia sessilis
Banksia sessilis	Milkmaids (Burchardia umbellata)	Cutleaf Hibbertia (Hibbertia cuneiformis)	Milkmaids (Burchardia umbellata)
King Spider Orchid (Caladenia pectinata)	King Spider Orchid (Caladenia pectinata)	Bull Banksia (Banksia grandis)	Cottonheads (Conostylis)