Five nights in Perth/Fremantle - come back to see what we did! Coogee Beach Tourist Park

We left Denham yesterday and headed south again. We stopped in at Shell Beach which is made up of thousands of tiny cockle shells. They are always washing ashore and are regarded as a replenishing resource so they are taken off the beach for uses such as being ground down and put in chicken feed to make the shells hard. We camped the night at Galena Bridge Rest Area on the Murchison River. There were some beautiful black swans and other birds. We visited Kalbar...

On the way to Kalbarri we stayed overnight at Galena Bridge right next to the Murchison River. Peaceful place with lots of Black Swans on the water and a few cygnets.

Friday 26th Oct - Left Carnarvon this morning and headed down to the Shark Bay Region. On the way we stopped at Hamelin Pool and took a short walk through the historic site of the shell quarry. The shells are tightly compacted and used to be cut into blocks for buildings. We also walked along a boardwalk and looked at the Stromatolites in the water. They only live in this area and althogu they really just look like rocks in the water, they are very slow growing a...

We have had a couple of great days in Carnarvon. Tuesday 23rd - our first day, we went into town and had a look around and did the usual grocery shop! Wednesday 24th - we went up to One Mile Jetty and caught the Coffee Pot train up the length of the jetty. It was very windy but we settled down to do a spot of fishing and lo and behold, Gracie caught her first fish!! A Yellowfin Bream. I also caught two fish but unfortunately they were all too small so we had to...