Day 137 Jurien Bay & around

Stuart is happy to be back at the west coast in Jurien Bay and starts the day with some mangos added to the coffee & biscuits. First for the day is a visit of the Lesueur National Park. The scenic drive has a turn-off to the Drummond Recreation Area, where different walks start. We decided to go for the Mt Lesueur trail to the Iain Wilson Lookout and the Wandoo Lookout. From the Lookouts you can see Mt Lesueur but not really a lot more. The interesting thing about the walk were all the wildflowers growing and blossoming just next to the walkway. Stuart enjoyed discovering lots of new wildflowers along the way. On the walkway there were also some signs giving information on certain flowers, which was quite interesting, e.g. is one flower the equivalent to the poison 1080, which is distributed as a rodenticide to get rid of rabbits, fox, etc. which kill the Australian wildlife, which can eat and digest this flower without any problems.

After a short stop at the Green Head General Store for some snacks for Stuart, we were heading to the Lake Thetis near Cervantes to have a look at the Stromatolites as Hamelin Pool up in the north was still closed the other day. It is a short, but very windy walk to the lake and onto a broadwalk so you are close enough to see the stromatolites.

As we were anyways near Cervantes and the Stockyard Gully Caves, which were actually on our schedule were closed, we decided to have again a look at the Pinnacles near Cervantes. For Stuart it was the first visit, so he enjoyed taking lots of photos - for us it was the second, but much more enjoyable visit with just over 20C instead of over 40C.

On the way back, Stuart discovered on the road to Jurien Bay a big fish statue and wanted to say hello before heading home for more food - cold & windy weather means feeling hungry more often.