Friday 9th Dec. Travelling through Jerramungup and on the Ravensthorpe today we skirted around the Fitzgerald River National Park. 330,000 hectares of unspoilt wilderness accessible by 2WD and 4WD tracks. I also noticed the bushes of wildflowers are still blooming profoundly down this area. Splashes of pink, mauve, blue, white and yellow. Also as we get closer to the townships are huge grain storage bins/silo's. Yes this is the southern wheatbelt country. Thousands upon thousands of hectares harvested or still to be harvested. What a sight to see.
Saturday 10th. Hopetourn drive only about 50 klm's south to the Southern Ocean for the last time on this coast before heading north and then west from Wave Rock back to Perth to house sit for 4-5 weeks.
This small township is nestled on the shores of Mary Anne Haven and was once a thriving port for the Phillps Rver Goldfields. (Noticed a Gold mine site still operating as we drove down). Yes, we tried out the bakery for some toasted mediterian, and ham, cheese and pineapple and sat on the shore under a shade structure, but not on the white sand as it was a foot or more deep with dried up/washed up seaweed matter.
These are farm gate art along the road towards Hopetourn.
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| Hopetourn Beach |
We drove out Hamersley Drive thinking we would take a hike into the eastern gateway to the world renowned Fitzgerald River National Park to get some stunning shots from higher ground. Not to be as the road/bridge were under reconstruction so could only stop at the Culham Inlet where the lagoon is fed by two rivers and held back from the sea by dunes. This site has a bird hide for migratory birds from the northern hemisphere and many other local species.
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| This is the closest we could get to the Nat Park. |
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