Another short hop today, allowing us plenty of time to stop off at The Pinnacles on the route between Gingin and our intended destination, Cervantes.
The Pinnacles is an odd phenomena in the desert just south of Cervantes. There are a number of theories regarding how they formed and why but none has been proved and all are contested by conflicting theories.
They look like standing stones but cover a large area of desert and have only been uncovered by the sand dunes in the last 600 years.
It’s another of these places that seem impossible to capture with a camera but the pics might give a flavour of it. A random collection of vertical limestone rocks in the middle of a sandy desert. Some of them are perhaps 20ft tall and others nothing more than boulders. There’s a 4km drive that takes you around and through the rocks with numerous places to park up and walk around them.
From The Pinnacles we set off for Cervantes to the Pinnacles Caravan Park. Our initial impression of the site wasn’t over optimistic as it looked like a typical beach front holiday site full of chalets and semi-permanent vans. Fortunately the touring area is actually much nicer with large pitches on grass and we’re only about a 100m walk through the sand dunes to the beach.
After we’d set up camp and had a chilling out period we at least managed a paddle in the ocean and a walk along the beach. As you’d expect on the west coast the sunset was over the sea and we watched it go down while taking a few pics.
We’d thought we might spend a couple of nights here but we’ll probably take advantage of the showers here in the morning and move to another site tomorrow, possibly a beach site just to the north of us.