Thursday 26th April 2018
Well we will start today with a walk around our Station Stay at Nambung. It was a very peaceful night with only a few cow noises to disturb the night. There were only 4 campsites in total including us. It was just our style of camping. After checking out all the farm animals, including some visiting emus we headed off to our first stop which was the Pinnacles Desert in the Nambung National Park. These were an amazing sight. The Pinnacles desert covers an area of approximately 190 hectares, is around 60 metres above sea level, and contains thousands of limestone Pinnacles, some up to 5 metres high. We were pleased we made this our first stop as it was very quiet when we arrived but by the time we left it was getting very crowded.

Next stop was the Wedge Shack Town – The beach shacks were built on Crown land about 160 kms north of Perth between the 1950s and 1980s by fishermen and farmers. The small coastal communities of Wedge Island and Grey, 15 kms north of Wedge, are home to about 350 holiday beach shacks on unvested land that do not have running water or electricity. It is amazing that they have been allowed to stay as they are effectively squatters on Crown land.

We had intended to drive on the beach between Wedge and Grey but as usual as our luck would have it the tide was too high so we had to go back the same way.

Next stop Cervantes for lunch. A quick lunch at the Lobster Shack with about 100 other diners. 50% of these were Asian tourists, they obviously have many Chinese visitors as they not only sell Lobster chips and coleslaw, the other option is Lobster and fried rice. The lobster was quite nice but as usual overpriced for what it was. Also in Cervantes we went to Thirsty Point, Hansen Bay and Lake Thetis where we saw stromatalites.

Moving on from there we headed to Jurien Bay stopping at Molah Point Lookout. We went for a bike ride to the harbour which went right along the beach. There is also a snorkelling trail but we decided it was too windy for this activity today.

From Jurien Bay we decided to leave off the last item on our list for today which was a bushwalk at Mt Lesueur to ensure we arrived at our campsite before dark. This is very unusual for us but we are trying to slow down a bit this trip.

Our last stop for today is Sandy Cape Jurien Bay. A beautiful Recreation Park and campground. This is very informal and only has drop toilets and no showers but is right on the beach. We are hoping to have a snorkel in the morning if the wind drops off and it is a nice day.

Woohoo!! We are getting so good. I have finished the blog and it is only 9.11pm. YAY ME!!!