We went to Lakes cave this morning which was great. This time we had a tour guide and the cave was nicely lit up. Lakes cave has the only suspended column in the world, which is the highlight of the cave. They turned all the lights off at one stage and you can hear all the drops of water onto the cave lakes. It takes 8-12 months for rain to seep through the ground and exit out on the cave roof. They had a shawl which looked amazing lit up. In 2010 the water was in danger of drying up so they installed a system to pump rain water into the cave, of the same makeup and quality, in the fear of losing the stygofauna that live here.


We then drove to Hamelin Bay which is famous for the large rays that visit the area. We didn't see any at the time but imagine the best time would be when it was warm enough to get up close.

We had lunch at Augusta where we saw dolphins and froze it was so cold. I have been totally unprepared for this amount of coldness, not expecting to hit so much of it. We drove past the Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse, the tallest on mainland Australia and saw and old waterwheel that was used to pump water to the lighthouse.


We then had a guided tour of Jewel Cave. Whilst each of the three Margaret River caves are essentially the same, they are all different and it is worth going to see each. Jewel Cave put on a coloured light show and had some 'organ pipes’. The straws are amazing and there are some that grow in a strange way which at the moment can’t be explained why.



On the way back to camp, we took a short drive down the beach road which has quite a few inlets you can stop at to watch the seas, cape Freycinet was one of these.