The south coast area of Western Australia surprised us with its beauty and diversity from huge trees, big mines, and the most beautiful white sand / blue water beaches we could ever imagine. We saw a lot of the west coast of South Australia being based on the Eyre Peninsula for a few months.
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| Pemberton tram ride through the tall hardwood forests |
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| hardwood awaiting milling - sprinklers to keep it moist so it doesn't split before sawing |
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| 115m high tree with a ladder to a Fire Lookout platform - Carol made it up, Garry took the photo |
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| big trees in the natural forest |
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| Valley of the Giants |
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| Albany - our van park was the other side of the golf course |
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| Albany Harbour - twice home to dozens of ship loads of soldiers off to fight in WW1 and WW2 |
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| Natural arch outside Albany - note the blue water |
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| Blue Whale skeleton once hunted in Australia's SW oceans |
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| The harbour where soldiers gathered before war. |
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| white sand, clear water, pristine coastline |
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| looking south towards Antartica |
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| our favorite beach - Hellfire Bay |
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| Kalgoorlies big hole in the ground.. |
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| one of the 'flash' buildings in Kalgorlie, sign of a once gold rich community |
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| hard to imagine a manmade hole 4km long, 1.4kkm wide, 700m deep |
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| beautiful golf course in the desert - the start of the Nullabour Links, the longest golf course in the world at 1450km |
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| Limestone cliffs of the Great Australian Bight |
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| beautiful sunset through the storm clouds. |
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| a great feed of blue swimmer crabs awaited us at Ceduna the day we finished crossing the Nullabour |
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| a quick trip back east and dinner at a Mudgee Winery for Fabians Birthday |
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| Murphy's Haystacks on the Eyre Peninsula of SA - solid rock after the surrounding countryside has been eroded away |
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| a very nice beach outside Elliston, looks inviting until you dip your toe in the freezing water |
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| Memory Cove at the bottom of Eyre Peninsula below Port Lincoln |
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| large sandblow in the same National Park |
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| the view from our van of the Streaky Bay Pier with ducks, pelicans, seagulls, porpoises, and seals all swimming close in at times |
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| Streaky Bay foreshore |
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| sea lions sunning themselves at a colony at Bairds Bay, SA |
