Wed 16 Oct 2013 - The Pinnacles and more Stromatolites

When we woke up this morning, we were surprised to find that it was overcast and raining lightly in the wind. This threw out our whole routine, what should we do with our damp towels and newly washed undies, when we came back after our shower?!  It was the first time we've had to think about this as we haven't had any rain yet.

Our first visit was to an Op Shop, as we wanted to change my books and donate some shoes. It was hard to find, but well worth the search. We got books, a knife and fork, a plastic box for fishing complete with sinkers and lures and, the piece de resistance, a folding fishing chair/ backpack! Rodger was very pleased with this and it was only $10.

We set of for Cervantes, and Lake Thetis, where there are more stromatolites. There wasn't such a good collection as at Hamlin Pool but we took some pictures for Andrew to use at school

Stromatolite

Thrombolite

fish feeding on the small crustacea living around the stromatolites 

Next we went to Nambung National Park, where the Pinnacles are. They were absolutely amazing, all these columns of limestone sticking up out of the sand of a desert, which seems to appear out of nowhere. There are heaps of them, there is a 4 km loop drive to look at them and nobody really knows how they were formed.

There's an interesting "Interactive Centre" there to tell the theories of how they might have formed and the animal life around them.

When we finished there, we came back to Cervantes to the caravan park, as they have Internet access and we wanted to Skype the family. We were lucky and spoke to Jem, Tim and Amy and saw the babies. We spoke to Bass and the boys and Rodger's Mum.

our caravan park at Cervantes

The sky had cleared by now and the sun was shining again, so we went for a walk on the beach but Rodger, of course, was dying to go fishing and try out his new fishing backpack chair, so off he went, looking like a real fisherman. The Chair made him so comfortable, he didn't come back for 3 hours!

pink snapper

yellow fin bream

He caught a pink snapper and a yellow fin bream but both were too small and had to be thrown back, so it was lucky that, while he was away, I made rissoles for dinner.