I had been wanting to do a road trip of WA North from Perth for awhile (that’s WA as in Western Australia, no Washington!). I warned my parents and Phil before we went that it would be a trip of weird and wonderful sights, not your ordinary trip. We flew to Perth on Good Friday and drove a couple hours North to our first stop - The Pinnacles in Nambung National Park. They are really interesting sand structures and no one is really sure how they were formed. It was a bit cold and rainy, but cleared up just enough to give us a rainbow over the formation as we started exploring. We drove the dirt track around the park, stopping in a couple places to have a closer look. The first section was all dirt, but as we drove on the landscape changed from red dirt to lighter dirt and green shrubs.
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| Rainbow over The Pinnacles |
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| Driving through The Pinnacles |
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| the changing landscape |
After finishing the drive we headed to Cervantes for the night, but just before the town saw a sign indicating to turn left for the Stromatolites. Since I had no idea what that was of course we had to turn left and figure it out. We took a short walk part way around Lake Thetis and came across the sign explaining what the stromatolites are. They are basically blobs of bacteria that have been growing there for 3500 years. These are relatively young stromatolites; older ones have been around for ~3 billion years. They might look like blobs, but they’re basically the most ancient living organism on Earth so that’s both a bit weird and a bit wonderful.
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| Lake Thetis |
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| Stromatolites |
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| Stromatolites at sunset |
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