Here is another month almost over. When we started out 12 months seemed such a long time to be away, but now we can see that the time is starting to fly by. We have more of a schedule now and it seems that the next few months will fly faster than the trip so far. We have heaps to look forward to.
This is camp Hamersley. Above left is our set up showing the kitchen in the background and above right is a close up of the kitchen area. Left is the toilet block. Very large toilets with a bench seat inside.
This morning we walked up to the day picnic area and did the Hakea Trail out to the beach. It is 3.4 kilometres return, so with the 1.2 kilometre return to the picnic area and the same distance again which we walked along the beach we covered around 5.8 kilometres.
The red sign points to the picnic area start of the walk.
We saw these hakea on our scenic drive, at this time of year they are green, yellow and orange leaf colour. The walk totem shows them from orange to yellow, so they must change colour over summer.
The walk is through the high sand dunes. This was our first glimpse from the top of a dune. You can see the closed entrance to the inlet.
This was our first look at the ocean. The sky appeared to be clearing, but at the end of our walk it had totally clouded over again and later this afternoon it is clearing again. The changes down here come through quickly.
This is the view when you come off the track and onto the inlet entrance. It is a long way between the ocean and the inlet water lines.
This is my panorama of it. If you look closely you can see Glen in the distance on the left, that will give you an idea of the size of the area. We saw many foot prints in the sand. A cat had walked across and we saw kangaroo prints as well.
Once you are at the beach, there are lots of rocks on the right, so we decided to walk up to the next point. It is amazing that there are two different types of rocks.
The quartz rocks
The beach was fascinating. Obviously the currents are quite specific. In this particular area it was feet deep with just pink sea shells. They are lighter than the sand and we all in just one small area.
The other rock. It has been uplifted and is on it’s side. It appears that it must have been layers and layers of hot ash as the layers are so very small. These were definitely not for sitting on. :))
This is the largest outcrop of quartz.
Then there was the area which consisted of the tumbled shells and rocks. This was also several feet deep without sand. You can see quartz tumbled smooth in this photo.
I could have stayed there for hours crawling around these pebbles taking photos of natures designs.
There were many rock pools which were deep and calm. The outer rocks stopping the surf from pushing in too hard.
Of course this was a calm day with a incoming tide. It would be very different once the weather turned. Glen spotted an orange crab, but there wasn’t much in the pools. By the polishing of those stones, anything in those rock pools would get a pounding.
On our way back along the walk we met up with a Canadian couple, who are retired and travel the world. They have been to Australia eight times. They live in Toronto and obviously every winter take off to some where with a better climate, what a great life.
We headed back to camp for a late lunch. It is lovely here, we are going into Hopetoun to refuel and do some park exploring tomorrow. There are some 4wd tracks in the park. Hopetoun is probably less than 20 kilometres from here.
We just loved the Hakea Trail - were they at their showy best?
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