It is cloudy / overcast and mid twenties. We did get a little sprinkle of rain that went no where.
The dolphins have been in the bay nearly every day and I keep forgetting to mention it. We had our kangaroo visitors last night and there is a orphan Joey trying to survive on it’s own. It is not that big and should be with it’s mother. It keeps following another mother and her Joey which is the same size as it, but they (both) constantly threaten it. Obviously by following this mother, it will find the best spots to feed and water.
Today we worked out (well Glen did) what the large herbivore droppings were - duh! Emu of course, I suppose we could be forgiven for not realizing as we have never really come across them before. On our walk today, we woke up a few kangaroos who were having naps in the cool sand under trees. They have white marks like eyebrows above their eyes and white marks around their ear rims. We saw quite a few birds as well.
On the walk we covered just on 10 kms and it took us 3 hours.
What that is supposed to mean is that it is 3.8 kms one way out to the headland (so the walk is 7.6 kms and takes approximately 4 hours) No one ever walks one way when it doesn't go anywhere, and to Black Rocks it is a further 2.2 kms making it a 12 km return walk. We didn’t walk to Black Rocks and did extra mileage on exploring the cliff tops and going a little further than the 3.8 km marker.
Half of the walk is undulating and on limestone and the the next part is through sand dunes (yes up and down) and then out the cliff face which again is limestone. There is no grass, all of that brown stuff is very dry moss.
Looking back from the cliff limestone to the dunes where we walk through. There are little bits of black rock everywhere, so hence the name.
There were big swells coming through and you could see Sensation Beach way way across the bay (above left) and (above right) is a closer photo of it. We wondered what the beach would be like to day, as yesterday it was so calm.
There was a really large cave back in from Glen.
Huge waves were rolling in – I have never seen so much white water so far out in a bay.
This little island stack looked liked a ship to me and right on top of it’s smoke stack was a eagles nest. That’s a pile of sticks at least half a metre high. A very safe nesting site.
More high cliff view
This was a really high stack and the waves were reaching up to the 3/4 mark. Slowly reducing it day in, day out.
I was well back from the edge, but saw Glen waving me back further, as I was about to walk across another huge cavern that went way back inland. When we are wanting to go near the edge, we stay apart so that we can see if it is solid ground the other is heading to or if it is under cut. Some of the under cuts go back further than you think.
This is the cliff marker at the cliff top view.
We did a bit of short cutting on the way back – the trail follows old car tracks so does a lot of twisting and turning, where you can just cut the corners. We found an old native well. It was about a metre deep and dry. It had a couple of bones in it. There was no signage and it wasn’t far off the track.
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