Wednesday 23 July 2014

Kalbarri - Memorial, a pink lake and coastal cliffs



Alrighty folks,

On the morning of our second day after a seriously freezing night with just two hours of sleep we at least had a very nice breakfast and then I drove us into the city of Geraldton where we visited the HMAS Sydney memorial.











After some more grocery shopping I took on the 1.5 hour drive to Port Gregory to the Hutt Lagoon as it is a pink lake. EXACTLY: PINK! I have apparently pasted a few pink lakes in Tasmania and the Southwest but the bacteria which colors the water pink does need certain weather conditions to show it. We were lucky with a perfect blue sky.








Happy about the pink lake we drove further on to Kalbarri and decided spontaneously to visit some spots on the coastal cliffs. These reminded Laura and me of the Great Ocean Road.




Then we drove to another lookout called the Eagle Gorge and we saw dolphins there playing in the waves. Awesome!






We watched the dolphins for quite a while, it was so nice. Before we drove off again we walked onto the beach. Don’t be surprised to not see Bastian in any of the group pictures as he doesn’t like that. Well, I took some pictures of him taking pictures :-)








When we arrived at the Kalbarri Visitor Information Center we have been told that they wouldn’t recommend us to drive the unsealed road towards the Nature’s Window with our Tankgirl van. So we had to rent another car for the next day. As it was only 4pm we drove in our van to two other lookouts. This is the Hawk’s Head.








And here is the Ross Graham lookout.

 








In the evening we got into the Kalbarri Tudor caravan park where we had FREE Wifi which didn’t work very well at times. We settled down for another freezing night after a nice dinner (chili con carne with rice) and a beer.








With two pairs of socks, leggings, legwarmers, a jogging trousers, a long-sleeve shirt, a pullover and a plastic bottle full with hot water wrapped in a tea towel I got into the sleeping bag. It helped to sleep much better than the night before. My feet were still a bit cold though…

Our next stop: Nature’s Window in Kalbarri National Park!

Yours pink-lake-visiting-and-freezing Stefanie

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