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WALKING TRAILS

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Breakaway Walk (blue on the walking track map) is a 400 metre 10 minute walk. Take a gentle stroll through lateritic gravelly soils to a large breakaway with a view of the Narrogin valley. Parrot bush is very common underneath the Marri and Wandoo, and Brown Mallets line the breakaway slope.
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View to the Narrogin valley
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Dampiera eriocephala mid October
Valley Walk (red on the walking track map) is 800 meters long, and takes about 20 minutes. It goes down to a  shady sheoak valley below the Breakaway Walk that has orchids and other flowers that persist longer than in other walks.
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Riot of colour in late September 3 years after fire
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Late October
Banksia Walk (yellow on the walking track map)  is 2.1 km long, and takes about 40 minutes. It features gravelly upland soils with marri- jarrah- wandoo woodland and proteaceous shrubs. A great diversity of wildflowers can be seen from August to October. 
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Jarrah woodland patch
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Blue leschenaultia and Tassel grevillea
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Proteaceaeous 'Kwongan' scrub
The Granite Walk (black on the walking track map) is 1.2 kms long, and should take around 30 minutes. The Aboretum is in the first section of the Granite Walk. It features over 70 species of eucalypts. You'll pass through a beautiful York gum -wandoo- sheoak woodland with large granite rock outcrops. Look for the growth of trees between the rocks and the characteristics of the granite caused by surface weathering. Children can fossick for spent bullets at the old rifle range butt.
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Everlastings and rock fern
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Look for bullets on the bank
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Granite outcrops
The Claypit walk (purple on the map) traverses a range of landcapes and soil types and features wildflowers not found elsewhere in Foxes Lair. These include Leschenaultia formosa (Red leschenaultia), Banksia fraseri, Calothamnus quadrifidus, Calytrix leschenaultia and Petrophile heterophylla. There are some steep slopes with stairs up breakways that offer a glimpse of Narrogin town. Late afternoon sun 'paints'  the trees  gleaming copper and silver, this is a good time to see grey kangaroos.
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Banksia Fraserii on red clay in July
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Glimpse Narrogin from brown mallet breakaway
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Wandoo woodland
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