Okay here's a review of our week in Kalbarri . Not much has happened due to the incessant wind , 30-40 kms/hr most times and gusting stronger . We have however , got some reading done , and managed a couple of bike rides - they were tough to start with , but excellent on the return with the wind behind us . This next photo is the Murchison River and the parkland beside it , there's a bike track that runs all the way around the river and up to Red Bluff - about 4klms away .
Here's what was a fishing /viewing platform at the river mouth , it was destroyed in the cyclone last year and still hasn't been replaced .
Speaking of the cyclone damage , there's still plenty of houses and units that still have damaged roofs and walls . There's plenty of new steel girders and roofing products lying in driveways , waiting for tradies to come & repair the damage , still it's been over a year and a half since the cyclone !!
Another day we went up to the coastal cliffs NP and stopped in at Pot Alley , it was still windy , but the walk down to the beach was reasonably protected . Here's the view from the carpark .
This is the start of the walk down .
The track follows this creek bed down through the multiple layers of different coloured rocks .
The wind and water have undercut a lot of the cliffs near the beach , forming beautiful patterns on the undersurface
The swell was certainly pumping in , this is not a place you'd want to end up in the water - you would be pulverised on the rocks .
There's a life buoy here for the intrepid rock fishermen & women or unaware tourists that get swept off the rocks .
The next 3 photos are the same wave crashing in
Some lucky people paid to go on an afternoon cruise in the wind and swell - we were quite happy sitting on the rocks watching all the action . You can see the white caps behind the boat .
After heading back up to the ute , we drove around to Island Rock and stopped in the shelter and watched for a while , we felt it was a bit too windy and exposed to go for a walk along the boardwalk .
Another day we had some offshore winds creating plumes of spray coming off the top of the waves at Back Beach .
We managed to find some flowers we hadn't seen before .
These ones were just on the edge of the road .
And this is the closeup of them .
That's our week , uneventful as it was , we head into Geraldton for a week or two or three . Here's a map link :- https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1q48sZsid_rEpI5YMI2wUw4YOxh7qC78&usp=sharing
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