For The Love of Travel

Lesueur National Park is a botanic oasis, a haven to over 900 plant species. In spring, the park transforms into a wildflower wonderland apparently, pity I am too early to witness that! But I did like the feathery look of the smokebush.

Sandy Bay lookout was offering lovely views of an impending storm.

Green Head has the delightfully green Dynamite Bay and I wanted to get a drone shot of same….the wind level was increasing but I had a couple of spare batteries so I wasn’t concerned. However when I tried to get the drone back to me, I thought I had sight of it, but it wasn’t responding to my remote control . As I walked along the beach admittedly starting to get that rising sense of panic, I suddenly saw a guy with a remote control…..and we discovered that was his drone (mine was further out in the bay). I pressed the ‘return home’ button on my drone and it faithfully returned. Adrian, from Perth, and I laughed (what are the odds of 2 drones, both DJI Air 2’s in the same location??), exchanged drone stories and parted ways. Stayed at Green Head caravan park overnight – met a lovely Danish couple who had been travelling on the West coast for 4 months. Severe wind gusts and rain interrupted my beauty sleep all night.

Leeman, further north, has a unique blend of caves, fresh and salt water lakes. I hung around the lake area off Coolimba-Eneabba Rd hoping to bird watch, but very quiet this morning.

The Indian Ocean at Port Denison was warm and inviting this morning – lots of beach strollers and surfers about. A HUGE shoal of mullet was swimming close to the shore’s edge and locals were rushing off home to get fishing lines to catch dinner.

The Pinnacles Volcanic Formation formed approximately 23 million years ago, extruded through many vents and deposited atop the granite ‘ basement’ forming a vast volcanic field.

Some pinnacles reach 3.5m. Some are jagged, sharp-edged columns rising to a point, while others resemble tombstones. Many pinnacles display cross-bedding structures, where the angle of sand deposition changes abruptly. As rainwater comes into contact with dune sands, it dissolves the calcium carbonate. As dunes dry out, the calcium carbonate recrystallises and cements sand grains and sea shells together, forming limestone.

Drove a 4.5km trail that winds through the amazing limestone formations that create this strange ‘other world’ environment.

Yanchep Lagoon is a popular swimming and snorkelling beach boasting calm and crystal clear water, with waves averaging 1 metre. Beautiful azure blue is mesmerising!

King Neptune statue: nowhere else in Australia can claim to have a giant limestone statue of the Roman god of the sea, as the centrepiece of town. But Two Rocks claims it! On a small hill overlooking the ocean, you are greeted by a 10 metre wide-eyed, grinning, bearded face of King Neptune, who’s of course, carrying a big trident. It used to be part of the former Atlantis Marine Park which opened to much fanfare in 1981, but closed just 9 years later, amid its billionaire developer Alan Bond’s financial woes. Neptune has been eroding there ever since….

Sovereign Park Viewing Deck…very disappointing for this local family because of all the seaweed that had blown in….but one of the young ones decided to jump in briefly….

Cervantes’ Lobster Shack, hardly a ‘shack’ today. It can welcome up to 700 guests, priding itself on its ‘pot to plate’ approach. David Thompson began this family dynasty living out of a coastal shack settlement in the 60’s with his 3 sons driving his boat ‘Sea Tips’ and fishing for the finest WA rock lobster. The now third generation implemented a quota management system in 2009, and it’ s one of the most sustainable lobster industries in the world. Delish lobster too!