Cervantes

Trip Start Jun 18, 2008
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Thursday, July 3, 2008

With a quick stroll around York again, it was back on the road again, towards Perth then turning North onto the Great Northern Highway as we reached Perth's suburbs. Again, not a great deal to type about, the only thing worthy of mention was the huge trucks we were behind for half an hour or so. On the back of the trucks were the mammoth Quarrying trucks, the ones which are larger than houses. They took up both lanes of the highway, so oncoming traffic had to pull off the highway until they had passed. It was really cool to watch for a while, but we soon realised that we were doing 40kph, with hundreds more KM's to go! Luckily they did pull off at a roadhouse, along with most of the cars and vans caught in the tailback, so we weren't delayed for too long. Sadly, driving means I cant take the best photos, and these ones don't do them any justice at all. They were simply mammoth.

Our aim today was Nambung National Park, better known for as The Pinnacles Helen at the beach
Helen at the beach
 . In the middle of the bushland, a load of sand dunes appear and on them are thousands of obelisk like objects, looking like strange rocks from a distance. Basically it's weathered limestone, formed over millions of years into what they are today. With the sun setting, I think we got our timing just right, because they looked great. On the drive out of there, we hit what can only be described as a swarm of moths and flying ants, because all of a sudden we were hitting thousands of them. The windscreen was like a butchers window after 20 minutes. Although the noise they made was strangely satisfying, I did feel bad at the path of death and destruction we had made into some innocent bugs. Plus I felt extra bad because its me who has to clean the windscreen.

The tiny town of Cervantes services the National Park, so we ended up at the only caravan park there. I type this from the back of the van there actually, and the past few days entries. It's right on the beach, so we went for a sunset stroll there, only to find it completely covered in dead seaweed, as far as the eye can see. We drove to another beach, literally 3 minutes away, which was fine, weirdly. It's a really stunning setting, however there is nothing more to stay for. Tomorrow, we go further North, chasing the sun, sand and sea experience we want for a few days, as this is meant to be a holiday, after all...
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