Yallingup
21st and 22nd November
The freeway south took us down the coast to Bunbury with alarmingly speed, but that was the plan.
We took the Tuart forest drive to get our first taste of the south west forests. That left us enough time to get to Yallingup and set up camp overlooking the picturesque lagoon and with the sound of the Yallingup reef break booming in the background.
Next day we drove to Meelup and walked through the beautiful coastal heath to Castle Rock where we spotted a whale and her calf not far out.
We also visited Cape Naturaliste but baulked at the cost of a lighthouse tour and instead contented ourselves with a bushwalk around the headland.
That night, the shouts and squeals of schoolies revellers was finally curtailed by a ranger or the police moving them on. Despite the beautiful backdrop, we judged it prudent not to risk another noisy night there plus it was relatively expensive.
On the way out, detoured to Canal Rock which we had read held a great snorkelling spot called 'The Aquarium' by locals.
We braved the cold water in what we judged the most likely looking spot and were rewarded with an underwater scene of massed seaweed completely obscuring the rocky sides of a deep clear channel dotted with beautiful fish. We probably missed the bit called the aquarium but it was still beautiful. On the way back to the car, we joined other sightseers watching an even closer Whale and calf frolicking nearby.
Just north of Margaret River, we stopped for lunch at a forest reserve and ended up going on a fairly long bushwalk through Karri forest and past some huge old pine trees from a 1933 plantation which were not harvested for reasons unknown. Then after restocking our food supplies, we continued on to the the Leuwin Naturaliste national park where we found the narrow and at times bumpy 4wd track in to the Point Road campground. The kids decided to ride on top of the camper trailer dodging the underbrush as it bumped very slowly down the track.
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