Kalbarri, a popular tourist place with West Australians, is like any tourist town. Manic during school holidays, and blissfully sleepy at other times. With a stroke of good luck, we arrived a few days after school resumed, and felt like we had the place to ourselves. It was also the perfect place to catch up with our friends from York - for a couple more days before continuing our journey northwards.
The first priority was to get up early and try to catch breakfast.
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| The boys try their hand at catching breakfast. |
Unfortunately the fish in the Murchison River were too quick for us on this occasion - although James did catch a little YellowTail - which was almost enough to create a new round of enthusiasm for the caper. Against was the fact it was cold and Mum had hot chocolate brewing on the stove top. The boys thankfully chose hot chocolate over another round of fishing, and we all retired for a delicious breakfast.
Kalbarri National Park has spectacular gorges, cut through 400 million year old sandstone by the Murchison River. They are incredibly photogenic in their own right, but around 400 million years ago, life was venturing out of the oceans for the first time. Some of these early creatures walked across mudflats, preserving their footprints for eternity. I thought the known sites of these foot prints would be kept a secret or jealously guarded, but we saw many foot prints imprinted on the ancient rocks on our walks through the park. It was an incredibly special feeling seeing the footsteps of some of the first creatures that walked!
