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Published: September 16th 2008
We've spent the last five nights in Kalbarri. We're staying at a caravan park that's a short walk from the beach. On our first full day here we walked to the lookouts overlooking the town and where the river meets the sea, the views are great.
On Sunday we went to watch the pelican feeding by the beach and then we walked to Red Bluff, which is about an hour long walk along the coast. We watched some really good surfers for a while on the beach before Red Bluff and then walked around to Red Bluff and sat and watched for whales while we ate lunch. The main reason we're here is because we'd read that you can sometimes spot whales from here. We think we saw splashes from a mhale. Every now and then close to the horizon we'd see big splashes, Anne-Marie took a photo of one of the slashes and if you zoom in it looks like a whale's tail in one corner! That's a close as we got though. Once we'd finally given up trying to see the whale we climbed up to the top of the bluff to the lookout. We spoke to a
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Pelican Feedingman we'd met further down by the beach and he told us he'd seen whales from the town lookout that morning and he'd seen us walking past, if we'd gone up there on Sunday morning we might have seen one. Oh well.
On Monday we went on a canoe tour of the gorges. First, we were driven to Nature's Window, which is a rock that forms a kind of 'natural window' into a gorge. We also went to the lookout at the Z Bend. Then we climbed down one of the gorges to the canoes at the bottom and had a couple of hours to canoe along the gorge. The views were amazing. It's really hot in the gorges, they say it's about ten degrees hotter than in the town so it might have been in the thirties. And it's winter! I'm glad we're not here in summer. Although, it wasn't too bad when we were on the water. There's lots of flies here too, if you zoom into my photos you can see I'm covered in lots of tiny flies! Lovely day though, really enjoyed it and it's nice to get some proper exercise.
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