Alan & Lyn's Huge Adventure: 13/6/20 New things for us at Kalbarri

Most of the things to do in Kalbarri we seem to have done , but we enjoy coming back here , it's a relaxing place to be .

We got the kayak out and went for a paddle across the river out to the rock shelf that guards the river entrance . The tide was going out and the water was very shallow , but we got to the end and pulled the kayak out of the water and went for a walk up the beach to the north . The rock shelf is a huge section of limestone and is difficult to walk on with all the sharp edges and pointy bits , then there's all the tiny shellfish that live on it as well .

There were a couple of oyster catchers keeping on eye on me .

The sand on the beach this side of the river is quite colourful , an almost scarlet red colour - as you would expect from the amount of scarlet red sandstone further to the south near Red Bluff .

As you can see , we weren't the only ones to go over this side and go for a walk along the beach , footprints everywhere .

The limestone has interesting shapes as well as textures , showing plenty of fault lines where it's a bit softer and gets eroded away .

Yes here's another aerial view , this time the river entrance and the rock shelf , with parts of Kalbarri behind .

Any boats coming in and out of here have to do a zigzag pattern to get in or out of the river . They come from the right hand side , below the white water , then turn 90 degrees to go toward the southern headland , then turn 90 degrees left into the river , then left , right and left again to be clear of all the rocks and sandbars - and the sea was pretty calm today . Several Cray boats operate out of here and there's avery popular boat ramp just behind the sandbar in the middle of the photo .

While we were walking we were also picking up stray pieces of plastic etc . Today we found these 2 bait boxes from some broken cray pots , a spare float , some rope and a few bottle tops another broken plastic .

Yet another sunset at Red Bluff Beach .

After the sunset I tried some time exposure shots on the constantly moving water , didn't work out too badly . Gives me something to work on 😎

We had a drive around , south & east to Binnu past Hutt River Province - may not be a province anymore since Prince Leonard died - it has also closed down for visits as well .

From Binnu we headed north along the highway to Galena bridge which goes over the Murchison River and is also an extremely popular free camp . The free camp is on the left hand and right hand sides of the river near the bridge . We have stayed here on a few occasions .