8 October: Travelled the good dirt road back to Yalgoo, put more air in the tyres and headed off to Geraldton on the coast. Scenic drive through the grain fields with a few wild flowers. Settled into a campground slightly out of town and then headed into town to pick up mail and to stock up on groceries. A bit of development happening around the beach areas of town.
9 October: Heading north again, off to Kalbarri now that the school holidays are over and there is room in the campgrounds. Stopped off to look at the Hutt Lagoon, otherwise known as the Pink Lake (pink colour comes from a carotenoid producing algae). Colour not so bright as it was cloudy but all the same it was quite pink in places. Had a bit of a wander around the very small town of Kalbarri and looked out over the sea and Murchison River mouth (the Murchison being the second longest river in WA) in the afternoon.
Next day we headed into the Coastal Cliffs part of the Kalbarri National Park after checking out a surf spot. Walked around the Rainbow Valley Nature Trail and saw different rock formations from worm tubes to multicolour layers of Sandstone. Also saw lots of whales playing quite close to the shore. Then did another walk along the cliffs and looked at “Natural Bridge” and “Island Rock” and had great views of the coastline and cliffs.
The following day we headed to the River Gorges area of the National Park. Good views back over Kalbarri from a lookout and then continued on to the West Loop to do the “Natures Window” walk (Murchison River framed by a rock formation). After that the opposite way to the Z Bend and another lookout and a walk/scramble and a couple of ladders down to the river. Nice and peaceful down by the river as lots of the tourists did not go down there!
Weather was not particularly good so no surfing or fishing.
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