Hit the road Jack
Trip Start
Oct 22, 2007
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Trip End
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Perth, Australia
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Off at 10am and equipped with a few tips from fellow campers we head north, aiming to reach a tiny little place called Jurien Bay that folks have recommended.
We soon leave the suburbs of Perth behind, a lovely city that we will return to in just a few weeks. Suddenly the landscape changes - through the forests of Yanchep, the site of some serious looking bushfires recently but already the trees etc are recovering with new green shoots and wildflowers springing up everywhere. It's weird to see the blackened trees with new growth.
The coast road gives us some glimpses of the Indian Ocean and sand dunes and its not long before we reach Lancelin, a wind surfers paradise where we stop for the free roadside facilities and have our first aussie bbq
'G'Day'
! The seaside facilities are very good- the gas barbies are clean and free to use and this stops folks lighting their own and causing fire risk problems- these Aussies look like they have some great ideas! Lets hope everywhere offers the same for us, this is so easy!Dan gets to drive the next leg of our journey. We see a couple of dead kangaroos on the roadside - glad it wasn't Urnie that run into them.
Pushing on we visit the Pinnacles Desert featured in so many Aussie guide books and calendars it's a must see thing. Urnie can't come- he's too big and might spoil the landscape says the very territorial ranger we meet at the entrance, so reluctantly leaving Urnie in the coach park for a well urned (spot the pun) rest we start the 3.5 km hike through this weird and wonderful place much to the annoyance of the kids aka nattie and ryan. " You,ll regret it later if you don't come- no really ,you will REGRET it later if you don't says Bev. They are not impressed- not a theme park ride in sight and isn't it just a load of old rocks after all? Yeah it is , but bloody good ones and its just one of those places in the world that we can now say we've been there!
Lots of camera clicking going on from Dan and Nattie stops wingeing when she gets to use Jims camera, we manage to take a couple of short cuts through the winding trail without getting lost and at the central lookout point we come across some more poms (they seem to be everywhere even though this place is deserted and we only see about 10 other people while we are here)
Er, Rocks
. Bev asked where they came from meaning back home but a bit daft they said they were from Perth. But they wernt Scottish either. Oh well. We make it back to Urnie unscathed except from the sandblasting effect from the wind -still at least we didn't perish in the heat either. Ryan returns to his toddler days and just asks Why? Why ? Why?
Still, some of us are glad we came. We think we've now become members of the wherethefukarwe tribe.
Not much further on is the camp site at Jurien Bay, just off a lovely little beach where a Chinese guy fishing from the jetty is convinced he is gonna catch a shark tonight- in his bucket so far - a lonely little herring! Jim gives fishing a miss tonight....
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dead kangaroo's is no big deal i ran over a rabbit this morning (sorry nattie)
roadkill
you will get used to the roos, just wait until you see a holy cow. seriously its odd, we saw a few in the outback on their backs dead as you like and their legs straight up in the air, others look like fancy dress outfits without the people in where feral animals have eaten the bits they want and left the hide....unless of course there really had been a big fancy dress 'come as a cow' party and drunk people forgot to return their costumes :)