There was a lot of traffic heading north (boats & caravans) as today is the first day of the school holidays in the west).
We had morning tea at Jurien Bay south of Geraldton - it is a very pretty little seaside town with a terrific beach.The offshore islands in this part of WA play host to a large number of sea lions, but we didn't go looking.
We then continued further south, all the time paralleling the coastline - wonderful beaches and headlands all the way - there is no shortage of these in WA and it is amazing that there are so few people using them. Even though we are only 150km north of Perth, you still feel like you are in a wilderness area.
Another thing we have noticed for a major part of WA is that there is a row of old sand dunes running parallel to the coast - sometimes they are 100 metres inland, other times a kilometre or so. It appears that the whole coastline waas once underwater and the ocean has receded. This matches up with why a large part of the coast contains huge amounts of limestone/ancient coral.
We arrived at Cervantes and decided to stay the night so we set up in the caravan park and then headed off to the Nambung National Park to visit the Pinnacles. We had never heard of them before we arrived in WA. They are limestone columns formed by water melding the limestone and sand together, however they are not sure exactly of their origin.
We also visited a lake containing more stromatolites and a couple of lookouts.
Tomorrow we have decided to visit and stay the night at New Norcia, a town run by monks. We should therefore be arriving in Perth on Monday morning.
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| Pinnacles |
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| Pinnacles |
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| Pinnacles |
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| A 'dead' pinnacle |
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| Pinnacles |
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| Cervantes |
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