Just a 25-minute drive east from the city leads you to the rolling vineyards of the Swan Valley, Western Australia’s oldest wine region, and its 4,200-hectare natural bushland known as Whiteman Park. Choose two feet or two wheels, and walk or cycle through the marri and jarrah trees, pricklybark, banksias, Hibbertia and grass trees. Lunch at a local winery, or fill your picnic basket with gourmet goodies and fresh produce from the roadside stalls and stores. If you have a designated driver for the day, sample the fine wines of the region at a cellar door or choose a bottle of wine to take with you. Make the 25-minute drive along Toodyay Road to Noble Falls for a picnic lunch among the orchids, Hakeas, grevilleas, rose coneflowers, cone bushes, triggerplants and verticordias. The 3.5-kilometre walk trail from the car park meanders beside Wooroloo Brook and passes the falls, which are stunning after good winter rains. On your way back towards Perth, take a detour off Toodyay Road to FR Berry Reserve on Reen Road. Here you can walk the 2.7-kilometre trail through wandoo, marri, jarrah and paperbark tress, wattles, yellow buttercups, blue Leschenaultia, melaleuca, grevilleas, Darwinia, Hovea, kangaroo paws, orchids and Hibbertia. Return to Perth, or stay overnight in Mundaring in the Perth Hills.