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Published: July 21st 2012
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Niglgi Caves
"The Really Dark Caves Awaking to the sound of the ocean crashing against the rocks on Day 6, we quickly got up, showered, cooked a hearty breakfast of beans and bread and flattened the campsite. About two kms from where we had camped were Niglgi Caves! First tour was at 10.30 and sure enough we were ten minutes late for that so we had to wait another hour an hour for the next one! We were quite excited to see these caves as we’ve all seen how much fun and mischief Fr. Ted and Doughal got up to in “The Really Dark Caves”. The caves themselves were impressive enough with two kilometres of unground to be trekked looking at stalagmites, stalligtites, stacks and straws which were between 3000 and 6000 years old, but the icing on the cake was “The Tunnel of Terror”. The tunnel was for kids, stretching about 20 meters and was basically a glorified slide but sure Cole and I said we’d better chance down there for the craic anyways! You can see how we got on in the video!
After over an hour wondering around the caves we emerged and saw a sign for a trek to a scenic viewpoint
40 Minute Return!!!!
Made Fools of Us Anyways which had a 40 minute return time on it! “Sure we’d do that in 20 minutes no surely” said Coley! Grand I said and away up the path we went. Shortly we came to a sign saying “Scenic Lookout – 25 Minute Return”. Beautiful we thought, we’d knocked 15 mins off the time in about 5 minutes! On we went, and on, and on and on! At one stage we came to a Tee Junction and it was not clearly marked which way to go so we made a call and went left. Bad call, after about 10 mins the path was so overgrown that there was no way this was a path to a scenic lookout like! We turned about and back to the tee junction and after a quick discussion as to go on or go back down we said sure we’d gone this far we may as well keep going! On and on we trekked and finally, another 25 mins later we came to “The Scenic Lookout”. To say we were unimpressed was an understatement! It was nice but in no way worth 45 minutes one way! Half annoyed we trotted off back down the hill, timing
Us Lost
Lucky we both watch Bear Grylls ourselves as we went! Moving at a decent pace, we were nearly at the bottom after 15mins when Coley noticed on our right hand side, low and behold, there was the real scenic lookout! A bit of timber decking and I little gap through the tree and that was it! We were gutted, not only had we walked 35 mins father than we had to, neither site was exactly worth it!
After lunch, we backtracked to Dunsborough, where we saw an outdoors shop, and thinking about how wet we’d get if it did rain, we went in, looking for a tent, and man did we find one! A six person tent with a lethal porch out the front! $200 but well worth it we reckoned! We’d see later!
Next we took off up the road towards Cape Naturaliste for a look. I spotted Sugarloaf Rock on the map and suggested we take a detour (to be fair it was only 3 kms off the road for the cape anyways like). When we got to it we found a massive Rock sticking out of the water, great spot for a few photos (we’re worse than Asians for photos at
this stage!) Next to Sugarloaf there was another set of rocks sticking up but they were attached to the mainland, so naturally enough, we started climbing them. I reckon I made it to the highest point on them but that’s up for discussion. Colman spotted a few crabs down in the rock pools. Every the David Attenbourgh, he wondered down for look, photo and commentary! What he didn’t see coming was a massive wave that broke off the rocks and soaked him! He got a nice photo of spray though in fairness! Hahaha soaked he was!
We took on after that, up the coast to Cape Naturaliste and all that was there yet another shagging lighthouse! Right we said! Straight up to the lighthouse, get the photo’s to prove we were here and away off down the road for a campsite. We path that looked like it was heading for the lighthouse but it turned out to be a path that goes for two kilometres around the lighthouse and you can see the top of it here and there! To be fair, it did have a massive light bulb in it though! I wanted to go straight in through
the scrub but Coley wouldn’t let me! No chance, so around it we went and away home, we didn’t get within a kilometre of it I’d say!
Thinking we should make some bit of progress we headed south again and ended up in Prevelly, a lovely spot on the beach. We found a caravan park that reminded us of Summer Bay Caravan Park straight away so we had to stay that! Surrounded by trees and top amenities, this was a great place to stay. A good hour was spent figuring out how to put up the new tent, but when it was it was a thing of beauty especially compared to what we were sleeping in the night before anyways like! We cooked up beef tex mex and rice, which was lovely again and drank some goon with it (we were in the Margarot River area like). At this stage we couldn’t wait to test out the tent so away to bed we went!
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