Stopped in at the Ocean Park Aquarium on the way out to get one more fix of marine life. Big open tanks with sharks, turtles, stonefish, rays, lionfish etc. A guide takes you around which makes it more interesting and we all loved “Bob” the loggerhead turtle with one flipper.
Got to about 20kms short of Kalbarri and felt a pang of homesickness, the landscape had changed...the first rolling green hills and grey clouds that we’ve seen since we left home!
The weather is cooler now and almost too cold for a swim! So we hire a tinnie for an hour and cruise down the Murchison River. We get back, and our kids are reunited with two families we met at the Bungle Bungles along with another one from Halls Creek. It seems the park with the jumping pillow has brought us all together...
We make our way out to Kalbarri National Park and walk down into “Nature’s Window”, a rock formation that forms a “window”. As usual, I am fascinated with the different coloured layers of rock and take far too many photos (many of which I won’t bore you with here..) The next stop was the “Z bend” walk where the Murchison River does a Z shaped bend at the bottom of a gorge. Ella has declared she is “over” gorges now and lucky for her I think this could be the last one. I, on the other hand can’t get enough of them.
Heading out of Kalbarri and down the coast road there are a plethora of scenic spots within a few kms of each other. Natural Bridge and Island Rock were a few pretty speccy ones formed from limestone cliffs eroded over time.
Lunch at Port Gregory, a tiny place with a massive PINK lake! The bacteria in the water turns it that colour and it is pretty smelly. We arrive at Coronation Beach for an overnight camp, Mark & Samuel go fishing and Ella, Charlie & I make rum balls instead.
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