Another good night with Terry & Robyn , followed by a good nights sleep , the wind dropped for us and it was a cool night , but we didn't get cold - bonus !!
Up with the birds again , so we had breakfast and headed back up to the lighthouse , time to get some aerial shots while the wind was behaving . This shot is looking back to Tookulup Lookout and Salmon Beach in the middle top of photo .
This is D'Encasteaux Point
This is the lighthouse with Windy Harbour village behind .
Lighthouse again , showing the walking tracks and road
This is Tookulup Lookout
Salmon Beach
Sunset Lookout
With the drone packed away we headed back to chat with Terry , Robyn , Doug & Sue before we headed off , leaving them to their own devices again - we had surprised them yesterday , heck we surprised ourselves , we weren't expecting to see them here !
Next stop was Cathedral Rock , it's actually a piece of the cliff that fractured & fell into the water a long time ago .
Back up in the air again looking down onto Cathedral Rock and village to the right .
A different view of the rock - the side less seen .
After a walk on the beach and photos done , we headed out to Mount Chudulup , it's where the forest comes back to us . The road winds it's way through the heathlands and gradually starts to climb into the forest at the base of Mt Chudulup . There is a wide clearing beside the road and it's covered in flowers - here they are .
There were thousands of tiny flowers there on both sides of the road . Photos done again , we drove up the road a short distance to the walking track . Mt Chudulup is a large granite rock that supports an amazing amount of differing vegetation , the walking track takes you through most of it . There's this amazing metallic yellow flower - shining up at us as we walked past .
The track led us through dense undergrowth and those beautiful tall Karri trees .
We found a Clematis as well
AS we got closer to the top the trees gave way to the expanse of granite , the vegetation changed again - it was like the trees stopped and the grass trees took over . This one is a fair age .
Yellow flowering shrubbery accompanied the grass trees .
This photo shows how the forest stops and the grass trees and lower shrubbery starts .
It was very windy up the top , so we didn't spend a lot of time up there , the view to the coast (about 15klms away) was very hazy and didn't photograph well .
This little bird decided to come and check us out as we walked back down the track - it came to about 2m away from me and stayed for a minute or two before disappearing into the bush .
Our walk finished and we headed back out to Northcliffe , then toward Pemberton , checking out a campsite on the Warren River . It would have been awesome to have the kayak and be able to stay for a few days - that would justify paying $36 for 2 nights for a campsite . An overnighter wasn't worth it when we could go back to Pemberton & have a hot shower a great camp kitchen .
It is a rather spectacular spot on the river though .
Into Pemberton and we had to go back to the swimming pool for another look . There are mountain bike trails in amongst all those gum trees , and it's an extremely popular spot for mountain biking .
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