I booked a tour of the southern part of WA and I'm glad I did! Now you might tend to see a repetitive theme here, which is: Rocks. That's right. Rocks that are formed by either weather conditions or other natural factors that had nothing to do with humans, but we turn around and compare these rocks to something else entirely...never seen these many rocks that look like so many other things before. Like I said, I'm glad that I booked this tour :)
Wave Rock - very cool thing to go check out! Over time, water erosion coloured and shaped it, so seems a little ironic that it does look like the actual real deal! As you can imagine, we waved hello and goodbye to Wave Rock (yes I know what a dork I am). Below I am doing my yoga meditation...what? Like there's a bad time or something?
This is what is said to look like a hippo yawning - so not to beat around the obvious, but this is called the Hippo Yawn :)
I bet you can't guess this one?! Well, maybe you can but you'd be wrong. Whistle Rock is said to whistle when you're standing off to the side of it, but I was there when it was pretty darn windy and didn't hear a thing except the sound of...wind. Come on - it looks like a DOG's face! Doesn't it?
Okay well it probably doesn't look like a terrible task to hike up a steep, slippery peak...but it was and thank God it didn't rain on us coming down Frenchman's Peak (they thought it looked like the tip of a French soldier's hat), we would still be up there! Almost at the top of the peak, there is a really nice window cave that you can walk through to the other side. Everyone who hikes up to the cave adds another rock to the pile, thought it to be a good thing to do. Then we climbed up to the top of the cave, awesome view but my camera batteries died - just my luck! Oh well, you win some...
This was our third day and we got completely rained out. Spent the majority of the day at a vineyard tasting wine (ahhh I know, tough days but somebody's got to do it:) As soon as we got off the bus it started pouring again, so we took a ride out to Lucky Bay where we were lucky, pun intended, to see these glorious pelicans!!! They were beautiful, so majestic and BIG! Our tour guide told us about the story of a recent German tourist who was up in a pelican's face all annoying trying to take pictures. The next thing he knew was that the pelican up and snatched this tourist's camera, flew off with it, and dropped it into the sea...everyone else started clapping!!! Moral of the story is, you shouldn't be annoying and give
wild animals space to be wild! Class dismissed:)
On our second tour night, we stayed at this really cool and comfy Albany hostel where all the rooms and a lot of the lounge walls were painted in fab murals...these are my favs...
The Bicentennial Tree is the highest tree top lookout in the world. Fire fighters used it to detect fires over the canopy back in the day. There are thick metal pegs going through the tree all the way to the top, and believe me it is a very scary in a slow progressive kind of way (not like jumping out of an airplane). This is a 60 meter plus climb, they have picked this 400 year old Karri tree (which is similar to the CA Redwood) but it rained over night, the pegs were wet and cold. I could only go up half way before the wind started to come in and sway this thick massive tree from side to side, and that was it! You don't have to tell me twice. The climb down was a lot more difficult than going up.
Had a look around this Emu farm, and someone offered me a taste of Emu pie...well I had to try it! It wasn't my cup of tea, but let me tell you the Aussies here really love their meat pies!
We stopped here at the Ngilgi Cave - which in the aborigional culture means "cave that swallows water" The tour guide told us there had not been a reported collapse in this cave for over 100 years, and I told her that I hoped that we wouldn't end up on the evening news! And we didn't :)
