Cevantes 27 - 28 October 2013

After a refreshingly urban coffee along the Geraldton foreshore we skipped town and headed further down the coast to Cervantes. We have definitely left the Red Centre behind at last with the landscape dominated y whiter than white lime-sand dunes.

It's so white, you would almost swear it was snow.

Stopped off at Central Greenough which was set up in the 1800s as an administration center for the agricultural area but was virtually abandoned as transport improvements made it largely redundant. Luckily the National Trust and WA Heritage have stepped in and are preserving the old buildings to provide a rather unique window on life back then.

From there it was full steam ahead for Cervantes which is a nice little sleepy coastal place. Very nice indeed, but the main attraction for those with limited time is the Pinnacles. These are a fairly amazing set of stone pillars which look a lot like the termite mounds you see in NT (not the dumpy ones typical of WA) which have been revealed by the erosion of overlying softer material and then shaped by the winds which never seem to stop blowing along this coast. Once again Ranger Bob (Jill in this case but they're all Bob to me) said we couldn't take the camper trailer an the Pinnacle viewing loop road, but before we (I) could crack it again, she told us that there was a walking trail, so we opted for this. The trail is 1.6km long, but to be honest we couldn't see the point in completing it once we had got to the first pinnacles. Amazing geology, yes. Capable of providing 1.6km of entertainment, no. Also, we couldn't see any reason why they wouldn't let us tow the Aussie Swag through either. The road was winding and narrow, but not so much that we would have had problems. I dunno, give a person a uniform and they want to control all the fun!