2nd Jan 2017: The Pinnacles and Geraldton

Still marked by New Year's Eve, we headed north. This means: heat, dryness, and endlessly long distances between the stations. Since the New Year's recovery was not yet complete, we aimed for a backpacker hostel in Geraldton as our destination. On the way, we passed through Nambung National Park, where the so-called Pinnacles are located. These are petrified tree stumps. Exactly how this petrification took place is still not fully understood. At the information point, two theories were described, but they exceeded my English skills. So, I spare you, dear readers, boring ramblings about the petrification of ancient tree stumps. The landscape itself was very special. A desert with stone columns protruding from the ground everywhere. One could almost believe that they were created by human hands. They reminded me a bit of remains of ancient stone buildings.

The rest of the day consisted of driving. By the way, Geraldton is the second largest city in Western Australia and the last station that could still be described as urban. North of there, even on the coast, you will only find a small town every 300 km. This is because the Outback directly transitions into the sea there, and there is no, like mainly, more fertile bushland. After a short visit to the beach and a game of billiards, we went to bed relatively early to be refreshed for the upcoming days.