Kalbarri Sight Seeing
Z BEND in Kalbarri National Park
Thursday we took a drive out to the Gorges in Kalbarri National Park. Our first surprise was at the gate where we found seniors only have to pay $3 per vehicle (rather than $9 “young people” have to pay). Finally, there is an advantage to being married to an old fart!
The drive into the gorges is a rough one along about 25 ks of corrugated sandy road. We saw lots of banksias and native grass trees and could see the grevillias are going to be really stunning very soon. I didn’t believe the gorges could be as beautiful as they were and we both decided they were almost more beautiful than King’s Canyon or Katherine Gorge. The gorges were formed as the Murchison River cut its way though the sandstone-the colours are amazing and I don’t think photos will do them any justice, but I’ll post a couple any way. There are 4 or 5 spots to visit with my favourite being Nature’s Window. It’s a sandblasted hole in the sandstone that frames the river and gorge way below.
Friday 26th we drove along the coast to check out the local “Great Ocean Road”. There are less and smaller rock formations than we have at home, but the colours in the sandstone against the blue ocean more than make up for that. Once again, I don’t think you’ll see the true colours in the photos.
Friday afternoon we took a sunset cruise out the heads and along the coat. It was really clam and very spectacular. The sunset was especially beautiful. That night we went up to as local buffet-very reasonably priced and really nice. After dinner and a bottle of wine we came home and sat outside for another hour or so-you can do that here where the temperature is so nice.
Saturday we took the boat out to do a bit of fishing. We caught a few mulloway (not big enough to keep), Russ caught a fair sized bream and I caught a cat-fish/eel like thing that we guessed might be a cobbler. Cobblers are venomous, so we handled him very carefully and through him back. When we got back to shore a local was really amazed we’d thrown back such a good eating fish. But better to be safe than sorry when we didn’t know which bit of him was venomous. We measured him though and he was 51cm (well over the 43cm limit) and I really knew I'd caught him!. He's the biggest fish I've caught.
My Cobbler
Last night we went to Findlay’s fish BBQ. It was fun and really reminded me of a civilized Jimbaran Bay (the fish BBQ’s on the beach) in Bali (with no bombs either). We sat outside with our feet in the red dirt, ate of plastic plates and it was lucky we’d taken our own wine glasses when we saw their sad collection of jam jars!
We leave here tomorrow and are hoping to meet another couple Barry and Shirley in Denham.
Thursday we took a drive out to the Gorges in Kalbarri National Park. Our first surprise was at the gate where we found seniors only have to pay $3 per vehicle (rather than $9 “young people” have to pay). Finally, there is an advantage to being married to an old fart!
The drive into the gorges is a rough one along about 25 ks of corrugated sandy road. We saw lots of banksias and native grass trees and could see the grevillias are going to be really stunning very soon. I didn’t believe the gorges could be as beautiful as they were and we both decided they were almost more beautiful than King’s Canyon or Katherine Gorge. The gorges were formed as the Murchison River cut its way though the sandstone-the colours are amazing and I don’t think photos will do them any justice, but I’ll post a couple any way. There are 4 or 5 spots to visit with my favourite being Nature’s Window. It’s a sandblasted hole in the sandstone that frames the river and gorge way below.
Friday 26th we drove along the coast to check out the local “Great Ocean Road”. There are less and smaller rock formations than we have at home, but the colours in the sandstone against the blue ocean more than make up for that. Once again, I don’t think you’ll see the true colours in the photos.
Friday afternoon we took a sunset cruise out the heads and along the coat. It was really clam and very spectacular. The sunset was especially beautiful. That night we went up to as local buffet-very reasonably priced and really nice. After dinner and a bottle of wine we came home and sat outside for another hour or so-you can do that here where the temperature is so nice.
Saturday we took the boat out to do a bit of fishing. We caught a few mulloway (not big enough to keep), Russ caught a fair sized bream and I caught a cat-fish/eel like thing that we guessed might be a cobbler. Cobblers are venomous, so we handled him very carefully and through him back. When we got back to shore a local was really amazed we’d thrown back such a good eating fish. But better to be safe than sorry when we didn’t know which bit of him was venomous. We measured him though and he was 51cm (well over the 43cm limit) and I really knew I'd caught him!. He's the biggest fish I've caught.
My Cobbler
Last night we went to Findlay’s fish BBQ. It was fun and really reminded me of a civilized Jimbaran Bay (the fish BBQ’s on the beach) in Bali (with no bombs either). We sat outside with our feet in the red dirt, ate of plastic plates and it was lucky we’d taken our own wine glasses when we saw their sad collection of jam jars!
We leave here tomorrow and are hoping to meet another couple Barry and Shirley in Denham.
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