Francois Peron National Park

The François Peron National Park (English Francois Peron National Park ) in Western Australia is located about 730 km north of Perth. It is named after the French zoologist and explorer François Péron and includes a some 525 km ² large area on the Peron Peninsula.

You can drive up to the sheep farm with normal road vehicles. To drive the rest of the park, you definitely need a four-wheel drive vehicle with sufficient ground clearance. In addition, air should be let out of the tires to get to the deep sandy tracks ever forward. Driving with SUVs is not recommended due to the risk of getting stuck in general. Depending on the conditions of the slopes from the Peron Homestead about 12 km long, mostly single-track route to the Big Lagoon with such vehicles is at times possible. The current conditions of the slopes should be requested in the DEC office in Denham. The effort is worth it because you will be rewarded at the tip of the peninsula with spectacular color contrast between the turquoise sea, white sand beach and the red sand of the park.

Project Eden

From around 1880, the Peron Peninsula was used as a sheep farm. In 1990, the government bought back the land and declared it as a national park. Founded in 1995 by the Department of Conservation and Land Management ( CALM) launched Project Eden (not to be confused with the Eden Project ) aims to create a safe habitat for threatened native species. The Peron Peninsula was separated by an electric fence from the mainland, the entrained predators ( foxes, wild cats) and the competing animals such as rabbits were eradicated by means of traps or poison bait. Finally, endangered species such as rat kangaroos, bilby, Woylies and more native mammals were exposed.