Blogs from Cervantes, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 5

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Cervantes September 14th 2005

Joe and I set off and once I'd finished getting lost round Perth, we began our journey North! Good chats and music combinations later, we'd taken a detour, seen some lizards and returned to the Pinnacles we had accidentally passed! Our first night was spent in the van, at Jurian Bay. Our second night was spent in Kalbarri and on the third, we finally arrived in Monkey Mia to begin volunteer work with the dolphins the next day!... read more

The Pinnacles Desert

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Cervantes July 15th 2005

Andrew & Fiona in the middle of the desert

Family Mudpie

A long drive to Cervantes to see the Pinacles Desert and it's getting pretty hot again, as it does when you're in the desert I suppose. This little Spanish themed place was, well, little and Spanish like, in name anyway. It's geared up for tourists to see the Pinnacles and there's isn't much else to tempt the traveller. Anyway, the pictures pretty much show you what we saw, basically a lot of sand and lots of pinnacles of various shapes and sizes, nice to see and great to play hide and seek!!... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name...more history

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