The bounced right along side me nearly giving me a heart attack! I managed to pull over and get a few snaps of my new riding buddies!
The next day was more bike related fun. I had spent the day at home waiting for our final delivery of furniture, then had to go hand our keys back for our old flat...basically a boring jobs day! So I was really excited about going to "Ladies Night" at the velodrome. I had a really fun 2 hours whizzing round the track learning some new skills and even getting involved in the team pursuit (my team won of course!). Chris came along to watch, feeling very jealous he couldn't take part!
After the velodrome we headed home only to find out that some bogan had broken into our new car Sheila and smashed the front window. Fortunately we didn't leave anything in the car so nothing was stolen, but it meant we had to re-think our weekend plans. Really annoying because I'd been really looking forward to this weekend!
So Saturday we got up early and took Sheila to be fixed. $500 later we were ready to go!
Naomi driving really slow..... look at the line of traffic behind!!!
We drove up north about 200km stopping off along to way at the different sites. First stop was Lancelin, a town with population of 650 people! This was where we were meant to go sand boarding but we were short of time so instead had a quick coffee and walk on the beach instead.
A bit further up the road was a place called Cerventes. Another small rural town with not much more than a general store and a pub. Fantastic views of the coast and sand dunes though! We stopped off here to go see the stromatolites. These are layers of microorganisms that are trapped between layers of sediment. Doesn't sound very interesting but these things are the oldest living organisms in the world! They are the most ancient form of life of planet Earth and have been living for 3.5 billion years! There are very few places where you can see these things and WA is one of them. A site of real scientific importance. Though in all honesty, not much to look at!
Finally we headed to the Pinnacles......
The Pinnacles are in Nambung National Park around 20km from the thriving metropolis of Cervantes, and consist of thousands of limestone pillars up to 4m high jutting out of the sand. Once you arrive at the end of the access road, and have passed a number of Emu warning signs, you are greeted with the Pinnacles drive.
Naomi and Sheila!!
This photo doesn't really do it justice, but it is MASSIVE!!!!
My favourite Pinnacles!!
We played a game of hide and seek.... Can you see Naomi??
After the drive around, we parked up and followed the Emu claw signs to explore on foot. Naomi came up with the stupidest game of aiming straight for the next sign regardless of what was in our way!!! As you can see there were a few obstacles, some pretty big!
Line of sight from one Emu sign to the next!
Crap a Camel rock in the way!!!
Oh bloody hell these are big boulders!
Luckily we survived our adventure across the desert and we wandered back to get a few photos of the sunset... unfortunately it had turned a bit cloudy, so we will save Indian Ocean sunset photo for another time and make the most of clouds for now, as we wont be seeing too many more of these after this month..... or so we keep being told!
So that was it for the road trip, back on the long and not so winding road back to Perth! Still had time to see a few Emu and my (Chris) first Bouncing Roo after a couple of asleep and permanently asleep ones! The hunt for the Echidna still goes on though.
That's all for now folks!
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