LAST holiday post

I had to get this up so that Chris can start posting about all the cricket that's been happening since we came back from holiday. Here's a short one from our drive home (lots of photos!):

Day 16: Kalbarri to home

On the way back to Perth, we stopped at a fascinating site called The Pinnacles. It’s a large region, protected as a park and geological research site, made up of sand and these cool rock formations. The pinnacles range from quite small and frail to stout and fairly tall, and they cover an amazing area. Only part of that area is accessible because of the surrounding sands. It was neat to be able to walk around them and try to imagine the geological processes taking place over thousands of years to form them. There are different theories, but the most plausible one was related to trees, acidification and limestone. (Sorry, I forget the detail). Chris spent some time trying to get cool photos, including ones with the moon sitting atop of the pinnacles (he succeeded but I can't put portrait oriented photos on the blog because they show sideways). But once again I was just trying to keep one step ahead of the flies and not inclined to hang out and admire for long.

We also passed the Pink Lake on our way back. Although it was highlighted in the guide book, it wasn’t enough of an attraction to warrant a sign from the road. So we kept waiting for the turn off to the viewing point and it never came. We did get quite a good glimpse of it from the road as we drove past, and it was spectacularly pink. I can confirm, after flying over Australia on my way to Brisbane the following week, that there are lakes of all kinds of wacky colours around the country. In addition to vivid pink, there are some bright yellow lakes, as well as white ones, and then all shades of blue and green.