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The oldest living organisms on the planet
This is a top pick! Hamelin Pool is in the World Heritage site of Shark Bay and the stromatolites are the oldest living organism's in the world which provide's the Earth's atmosphere with Oxygen. There is a lot of info on the interweb that I can copy and paste but ...
Having a bleating good time in Hamelin ...
... doubt, we will end up the subject of someone else’s anecdotes somewhere along the trail. Both of us had spotted the Hamelin Station brochure elsewhere, but luckily Paddy put two and two together, and actually drove into the drive when we got there! ...
Australian Adventure Week Fifteen!
... was very welcoming. The station stay turned out to be one of the best places we have stayed in our time in Australia. There was a cosy farmhouse kitchen area with a log fire where we spent the evening chatting with fellow guests. The next day ...
Alec's stromatolite project
... . This meant that that air breathing animals could evolve. Stromatolites are now found in very few places, for example in Hamelin Pool in Shark Bay. Some of these stromatolites got squashed by carts because they were loading ships with wool 60 years ...
Hamelin Pool
... This is the second lot of stromalites we see on this trip and we are proud to know this is one of three main sites in Australia which generate our much loved oxygen. To look at them and the algae, it is hard to believe what they are actually capable ...
Sheep, sweat and tears
... Australian 40 plus degree heat in the shade (its more like 55 in the sun)- also discovered cold beer.... and both shaved our heads Hamelin is a sheep and goat station, and farms are big out here, like 440,000 acres plus. That's about the size of all ...
Hamelin Pool - historyczno- biologiczne przezycie
I znowu w drodze. Tym razem wiatry powialy nas do Kalbarri National Park. Zanim tam jednak dotarlismy odwiedzilismy jeszcze Hamelin Pool – miejsce znane z trzech rzeczy: 1. Starej Stacji Telegraficznej zbudowanej w ...
Stromatolites
Well we said goodbye to our dolphins today, which was sad.... but off we must go and continue with our journey. We arrived at Hamelin Pool at about 1pm and booked ourselves in for one night. We had a look at the Stromatolites and we also had a ...
Kalbarri to Hamelin Pool
... Telegraph station built in 1884 which served as the post office for the area, it was also a port for the sheep grazing area. Hamelin Pool is also home to other, older stromatolites – bigger ones this time! Took a walk down to the stromatolites via ...
We've been to the same place as Bill Bryson!
... telegraph station there that actually transmitted messages from NASA’s Gemini space mission craft after Carnarvon’s dish went down. It’s also where we will see the stromatolites and visit the western-most point of mainland Australia. ...
Are we there yet? Nearly...
... Ant if you asked me "Are we there yet?" I’d answer “Nearly”… We arrived at Hamelin Station Stay, an old homestead turned into accommodation with self-contained units in the historic shearers quarters and unpowered ...
Sting Ray. D-naaaaanananana
The next morning we had a lot to do as we were running out of time on our trip and had loads that we really wanted to fit in. Max wanted to go Caving and i had been told about a beach where huge Sting Rays litterally come up onto the beach so we set of ...
White Beaches, Grey Skies...
For all it's fame, beauty and splendour, Shark Bay and Hamelin Pool nature Reserve seemed a bleak, colourless and slightly cold place to be. It boasts spectacular vistas and rugged hillsides dropping hundreds of meters into the sea, but it's ...
First Day of Winter? Really?
... kids had a nice chat with a few of the oldies too. We are off to Carnarvon tomorrow to stock up before heading further north to Nigaloo Reef, I am very excited as this is the one place that I really wanted to see, the reef is aguably the best in ...
Hamelin Bay
Today we drove south to Hamelin Bay. This is a lovely bay, but a bit windy at the moment. After leaving the caravan there we drive down to see Cape Leeuwin lighthouse and the meeting point of the two oceans – Southern and Indian. You can ...
Hamelin Station
... cafe place in the middle of nowhere. Fantastic though and really nice place called the Red Car cafe. Stopped to camp at Hamelin Station - a huge sheep ranch which does camping stays and some bunk houses. Recommended this one by the couple travelling to uk ...
Ancient structures that live today
... , with not a tree to be seen, and the wind, well needless to say we continued on to a little Caravan Park at Hamelin Pool, a more protected site. Here there is an old Telegraph station and other items of historical significance, loved the old fuel pump. ...
Oldest Living Life-Forms on Earth
These are stromatolites, which started forming 3.5 billion years ago when the first cyanobacteria was formed. Rough translation- the oldest living life-forms on ...
the South West of WA.
... three nights, a nice park but very busy at that time during the school holidays. We are now in Augusta after staying 4 nights in Hamelin Bay without mobile, internet, radio or TV. Here in Augusta it's not that much better, but at least we have some sort ...
Hamelin Pool
Friday, 28 September 2012 We also visited Hamelin Pool, one of only a few places on Earth left where you can view living marine STROMATOLITES. These rocky looking lumps in the water are examples of the oldest and simplest forms of life on Earth dating ...
Hamelin Pool
At Hamelin Pool there is an historic shell quarry and telegraph station (as featured in Bill Bryson's book on Australia). However, we came to see the stromatolites, which are strange cabbage-like formations of cyanobacteria now found only in very ...
Thoughts on ... Hamelin Bay ... and caves
... home, long drive to Perth, midnight flight to Melbourne. We decided to stop and look at a few places along the way. Hamelin Bay was a nice beach, again pretty deserted, Mammoth Cave was the cave of choice because it advertised ease of access for the ...
Stromatolites are go!
... all the other amazing natural wonders it has as well. And we were privileged to be able to explore this part of Australia for a while. Hamelin Pool is the site of an old telegraph repeater station, and on the site there is a wonderful tearoom ...
Day 2 - Hamelin Bay to Prevelly Park
... at the parks suggestion as 'more luxurious'. These were better than the cabins, just, but would be best replaced by transportables as in Hamelin Bay. Few drinks, newspaper in shoe replacements and card games and it was off to bed. ...
Stromatoliten
Nach langer Autofahrt sind wir in der Hamelin Bay angekommen. Ein Ort, an dem dato noch viele Stromatoliten, die ältesten Lebensformen des Planten, leben und sich zeigen... Imposant! (schaut zwar nicht sehr aufregend aus, aber wenn man sich den ...
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