5th November
Yet another stunning National Park!! So much natural beauty with a rugged coastline, red cliffs and beautiful turquoise bays. And the bird and marine life was prolific!
The whole National Park, which used to be farmland, sits on red sand and salt flats. Most of the roads are on the soft red sand, so you can only access the park by 4WD and only once you have deflated your tyres to around 20 PSI. There was some pretty challenging driving at times.
Our first stop on the east side at Harold Blight. We drove along the beach to a sandy point with a white sand, turquoise bay on one side and a bay flanked by a red sand dune on the other. There was amazing birdlife and loads of rays and shovel nose sharks swimming in the shallows.
On the west side we stopped at Gregories, another pretty bay, where we had a great snorkel.
At the top of the peninsula was Cape Peron with beautiful red cliffs and an amazing amount of birdlife.
The highlight for us was Skipjack Point, with lookouts over the surrounding bays and fabulous viewing of the marine life in the shallow waters below.
The rocks below were covered with birdlife and the water was abundant with marine-life. We saw turtles and sharks and lots of different rays. I particularly loved watching the eagle rays. They are so graceful swimming through the water and we even saw one jump out of the water.
We were very excited to see our first dugong on the wild.
It was an awesome day with so much beautiful scenery and wildlife – and an echidna next to the road on our way out just to top it off!!
The Travelling Dixons 