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Last few days of the Safari and Perth

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Day 31: Hamelin Stn to Kalbarri At Hamelin Station near the Shell Beach we encountered our first rain in the early evening.What a shock after 4 and a half weeks dry days. A great feature of that day was the sights and features of Kalbarri National Park. Covering over 1800 sq km it features 2 distinctly different landscapes - wild bush land and rugged coastal cliffs. The dramatic gorges lined with red river gums, the slow flowing Murchison River and breath-taking vistas made the place a little magical. We have started to see more wild flowers although it is a little early in the season still . One unique tree that we love is the grass trees that are very common here. They have a distinctive spear-like spike that can grow up to four metres long. And their foliage is like a mop of long thin needle like leaves.  Formerly known has “black boys” due to their purported similarity to an aboriginal man carrying a spear. They are very slow-growing - a tree with a 1 metre trunk is probably ...

Nature through the window

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We clambered down a rocky slope to this amazing rock formation above a beautiful gorge on the Murchison River

Tom Price mine photos (see “South of Broome” post)

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Karinji NP (see “South of Broome” post)

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Dales Gorge, Karinji NP

Photos from Shell Beach ( see Shark Bay post)

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The black object below is my key ring put there  for a size comparison The shells are tiny

Horizontal Waterfall

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