The relevant “fairies” are Caladenia Latiffolia – an Australian orchid species, commonly known as “pink fairy orchids”, or simply “pink fairies”.
I took the photo near the western side of Lake Claremont at 3.46 pm on 19 September.
The floral diversity in southwest WA is phenomenal, globally.
Many of the region’s beautiful, often wondrous-strange flowering plants are endemic – in the wild, they occur nowhere else on earth.
Not a few are endemic to just a tiny portion of WA; for a few species, their entire “home range” is a single hill in The Stirling Range.
Good news for Australians who live on the “wrong” side of the Nullarbor: Caladenia Latiffolia is widespread across much of southern Australia, including Tasmania.
In Perth the current springtime is a good one for this species.
Not quite all pink fairy orchids are actually pink – you just might see some white-ish ones.