The sand is white, the turquoise water is crystal clear and warm. Today was the best beach day that we have had in a long while. The drive along the beach was fantastic. The sand when moist is very hard.
Cape Arid National Park, has some stunning scenery, it is remote but with that comes the pleasure of being the only one on the beach. We saw a couple of cars today. The weather we had today made for a very nice day at the beach. It is a great location.
There are lots of islands off shore. The sand is so fine that it feels like walking on cornflour.
We stopped by this rocky outcrop and spent quite awhile wandering around the rocks and sand dunes. We had a bit of fun driving in the sand dunes.
After a couple of sensible tries, Glen gave it a little more push and cruised through. We are still learning with this very soft sand, you need to really gun it to get through.
My very own play house, look who’s at the window – :)
AND, for the eagle eyed, our 4wd is in the photo (top left)
We then drove onto the car park for the start of the Mt Arid walk. Again, although it is late summer, there are numerous wildflowers in bloom.
These lizards are hilarious, they take off with their tails up – do a little dodge and weave then sit flat and head bob.
We both thought that they run like dinosaurs – or the animators made dinosaurs run like these lizards. The goanna’s that run like this are called racehorse goanna.
Mt Arid is on the right of this photo. It is quite long and there is not much variation in the actual top. It is deceptive because you cannot see the top, so you think you are there only to find that there is another major part to climb.
Glen on the way up, it is like climbing a hamburger bun.
The wind started just as we started our walk and it was really hard going as it was blowing strongly, enough to move us on a couple of occasions and we were walking against it.
There were a lot of “creeks”- water run off which had channelled into the rock. The rock from a distance looks smooth but it is very rough and bumpy.
This is how windy it was. We opened our rubbish bag and it immediately inflated. If only we had brought two larger ones, we would not have needed to walk down again.
Looks like the top in the distance doesn’t it – well no……Finally, we got to the top – here is the geo point marker to prove it.
The walk to the top and back took us three and half hours.
The next group of photos have been taken panorama style – starting from left to right of the view from the top of Mt Arid
These bays to the left (below) can be reached by road.
Above is mostly east and below is mostly west.
A view of Yokinup Bay. This view is back towards our camp which is about 20 kilometres away. It is the last patch of white beach, further around that the last bright white beach you can see. We are camped on Dolphin Cove.
The wind was blowing against the waves and was pushing them back with spray flipping over.
I wanted to capture how the water and waves were changed by the strong wind against them.
On the way back to camp, it was bright and sunny but with cloud on the horizon. I think it is tomorrow mornings cloud waiting to come it like it does everyday. :)
It took me several attempts to the the pacific gull to face the right way, a wave to crash in the background and keep the horizon straight, all while the wind was pushing the camera every which way. The gull kept looking around as if he was waiting on a bus.
A cup of coffee on the way home, we tucked in between sand dunes and rocks.
We managed a signal to upload this blog, but we are now heading to Mt Ragged (further into Cape Arid National Park) and onto Balladonia, via the tracks in Cape Arid. We will come out at Balladonia which is on the highway to cross the Nullarbor.
Love these photos - the white sand like cornflour is really strange and squeaky to walk on, isn't it!
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