We left our hostel and drove 138 miles from Perth up to Jurien Bay along the Indian Ocean Drive, which is a road which takes you along the coast up through some small towns to where we were staying, although the road doesn't actually run that close to the sea for most of the time, so we were just driving through the Australian Bush. The landscape changed quite a bit as we went north, there were loads of trees around Perth and then it slowly turned into scrubland as we went up the coast. We haven't seen any kangaroos yet, despite there being numerous signs saying to watch out for them, but I think I saw 3 emus to the side of the road. On our way up to Jurien Bay we visited the Pinnacles Desert in Nambung National Park, which has a 4km drive around the Pinnacles that we did. The Pinnacles are limestone pillars that are just standing up in the desert, leftover from when the surrounding rock was eroded when sea levels dropped thousands of years ago. There were literally thousands of them of all shapes and sizes in the park, it was really cool to see! We then carried on to our campsite at Jurien Bay and set up our tiny 2 man tent, only for there to be a thunder and lightning storm on our first night! It didn't rain much and we survived, but the tent was a little cramped! The next day we drove back down south a bit to visit Lake Thetis, just outside of the town of Cervantes. The lake is one of the few places in the world where stromatolites live, they are the earliest forms of life, bacteria that are thousands of years old and still growing. We did a 1.5km walk around the lake which was really nice, apart from all the flies, then we visited Hansen Bay Lookout for some good views over the lake and also out over the ocean and over the town of Cervantes. We then drove into Cervantes, which is a tiny town with not much to do and drove down to Thirsty Point lookout for a better view over the outlying islands. In the afternoon we drove back to Jurien Bay and visited the marina, which was pretty but didn't have a lot going on, then we went to the beach and saw some people skydiving (we weren't tempted!). We also saw a blue tongued skink (a lizard with a stubby tail). Back at the campsite we got offered a free upgrade to a private room in a cabin because of storm predictions, which we took, although the weather turned out to be a lot nicer than predicted, it didn't even rain! Oh well, who would say no to a free upgrade?