Gnowangerup is a tiny, extremely neat, and pretty town in southwest WA whose name* means “place of the malleefowl”. We didn’t see any malleefowl 🙂
(I’m so glad you asked. There are so many places in West Australia ending in ‘up’ because in a dialect of Noongar, an Australian Aboriginal language, “-up” means “place of”.)
We stopped here for a break, coffee, and something to eat, and though it’s basically a place you drive through on the way to somewhere else (unless you live there), if you do find yourself stopping there, you should go to the Roast and Brew café on the main drag. Because it was very very good and the banana bread is amazing.
Large scale painting of a bee, a banksia, and a Waratah on the pink wall of “The House Paddock”, a homewares store next to the toilets
Tidy large grass tree in its own gravel garden bed, in front of the shire council offices
A beautiful flower mural on the side of an IGA store, unfortunately partly obscured by a wire fence
Large steam driven traction engine painted pale aqua and black, near a two-trunked grass tree. Both are in front of the shire council offices, to the left of the photo, out of frame
Flower tiled mural on the birick wall of the ‘conveniences’