We left Cervantes and went straight to the Pinnacles, which we'd been discussing for some weeks, mainly because the movie "Madagascar 3" has a line with the word Pinnacle in it!!! It didn't disappoint, and we spent over an hour walking around and playing hide-&-seek among the limestone rock formations in the desert. The walk was about 1km; we didn't drive, as we had the van - it was great fun, and Mum & Dad were hard to find sometimes! We had a good lo...

We departed Kalbarri around 9.30 for a long drive to Cervantes along the Indian Pacific Drive - a very picturesque ocean road - quite windy and very exposed. Actually, the wind has been non-stop for about 2 weeks now and we are over it! The sky is blue, but the wind chill factor is making things very cold, so Mum & Dad have brought out their jackets - lucky they didn't post them all back home! Our highlight today was driving around Hutt Lagoon, Port Gre...

A very slow morning today - cold and overcast so we took our time. Eventually around midday we organised ourselves to take a drive out to the Kalbarri Gorges, formed by the Murchison River. Firstly, the Z-bend Gorge lookout: an easy 2.6 km return walk which included some ladders and boulders, so a bit of fun and there was water in the gorge, so it was very pleasant with nice wildflowers along the way. We had the fastest lunch possible back at the carpark, du...

Renee & Eamon went to the dolphin feeding again, and today there were lots of them around. We packed up under a very cloudy and almost cool morning, said our goodbyes to Joe, Zoe & Sam and drove towards Kalbarri. We had a couple of places we'd not seen on the way to Monkey Mia, so dropped in this morning - and it actually rained - not enough to wet the ground though. First stop was Shell Beach, an amazing pure white beach that has been created natu...

We woke up early again for the dolphin feeding and this time Eamon & Maya were selected to feed a dolphin so that was a real bonus. We farewelled the Hargreaves who are off to their next destination, and headed to the pool. Around noon, we went went for a drive in the Francois Peron National Park with the Prelc family. Our first stop was the Peron Heritage Precinct where there's an old homestead and sheep station, including interpretive signs along the w...