Kalbarri- Exploring

Black Boy, plant.

Nature's Window, posing for a magazine we were.

Kids in Nature's Window

The Family at 'Z' Bend.

One of the many beautiful wild flowers

Can you see the 'Hawks Head'

2^nd day at Kalbarri was going to be exploring the National Parks, so off we head to ‘Nature’s Window’ and lookout,along the way we stopped twice due to the many wild flowers and took photos and there was a field of black boys, don't know the real name for them but check out the photo.  An amazing rock formation,'Natures Window", where it’s a window with a view, check the photo. It was so windy up there though and the flies were once again annoying Oliver. He keep saying,” I hate Flies, they are going to eat me alive”. Even though the wind was bad it was still wonderful to look through ‘Nature’s window’ and actually see the river below and wild goats. Next stop was ‘Z Bend’, and we thought wonder why its called that, well we got there after a short 5 km drive and walked to the lookout and it was the river that is a ‘Z’ and we were in the middle of the ‘Z’ very interesting and again a lovely view. Next stop was to ‘Hawks Head’, and again we wondered mmm what’s this going to be I wonder, you guessed it a rock in the shape of a Hawks Head, however Dylan couldn’t see it and didn’t think much of it. Last and final stop in the National Park was to ‘Ross Graham’, and again we were a little puzzled on this one, on why this is called ‘Ross Graham’. Well an interesting story around this one as it was named after the first headmaster of Kalbarri Primary School, as he was a conservationist. This gorge area was a small river with a lot of birds, well it was supposed to be a lot of birds but we didn’t see many at all.  After a day exploring checked out Chinaman’s Beach which is near our caravan park (Murchison Caravan Park), and watched a boat come back into shore, this was dangerous as the waves were so high and the boats have to get through this in order to come back into the river to get out. The river meets the ocean and its actually called the washing machine as the waves come in at such a speed and are really high and the you have the river water that tries to come out meeting the waves. In other words the two waters against each other makes it look like a big washing machine. Don’t know why it’s called Chinaman’s beach then. Dinner tonight is going to be our ‘1^st’, take out dinner, fish and chips. I thought that wasn’t bad considering we have now been on the road 9 weeks, without any takeout dinner. We had this really early as Mark wanted to get to pub to watch you guessed it, football, Collingwood and Swans. Tonight we had our first real down pour of rain, quite heavy and then it cleared. We had heard that storms were hitting bad down south and we actually got the edge of it.  It cleared in time for bed and heard more overnight.