Way away in WA 2023 – Day 33

Driving out of Denham

Not much road sense

The Useless Loop salt facility

Coastline south of Denham

Crow showing his mate how to do jazz hands

A very big old Red kangaroo

Nerren Nerren Rest Area is about due west of the Sunshine Coast. After the overwhelming repsonse to my last toilet review, I was compelled to share another. The Nerren Nerren toilet looks OK but once inside, the fly convention greets you in a buzzing cloud. Then the harsh smell of ammonia attacks one’s olfactory and respiratory systems with a pungent rush. Time inside is very limited – it will be the quickest toilet stop ever. On a plus, there is an AED (automated external defibrillator) on the external wall. It is an essential device in such an isolated area especially with the large number of grey nomads using the free camping site. Summary – bad fail. A few points for the AED.

Gum blossom (possibly gimlet gum)

Weebill at Nerren Nerren

Galena Bridges over the Murchison River (old and new)

Black Swan – state emblem of WA on the Murchison

White plumed honeyeater (western race) at Galena

We enter our first Kwongan (low heath) on the west coast

Hakea

Podolepsis

Parakeelya- Calandrinia

At Ajana, the road to Kalbarri leaves the North West Coastal Highway. Immediately there are a number of wildflowers outside the national park on the roadsides.

Hibbertia

Pink poker grevillea

Kalbarri National Park has both a river section and coastal section. The river section surrounds the lower reaches of the Murchison River, which has cut a magnificent 80km gorge through the red and white banded sandstone to create a range of rocky formations.