-- From Karijini NP to Cape Range NP
The road tracklog
from Karijini NP to Cape Range NP
from 01 to 07/122009
On December first, I left Karijini NP with nostalgia. I had spent sublime hours there by strolling at the bottom into Gorges wading in clear water by listening to the murmur of brooks and the rustle of trees, no eternal regrets. The last vision was the Mt Bruce. Ah! Beautiful days...
Mt Bruce
en route
01/12/2009
I arrived at lunch time in Tom Price, small city without charm but with a Tourist Centre and a Shopping Centre. After my collect of documentation I settled for two long hours in Nameless Internet cafe to publish the update of my website and to read my mailbox. Then I loafed around in Shopping Centre. At the end of the afternoon I settled for two nights in Tom Price Tourist Park welcomed by cockatoo of which one was perched on the water tap. Mt Nameless, in low angle light, dominate Tom Price and the Campsite.
Cacatoo!
Tom Price Tourist Park
01/12/2009
Mt Nameless
Tom Price Tourist Park
02/12/2009
Thursday December 03 was a long day on sealed road with little centre of interest. Heat increased every day; at the spot of Barradale RA there were 43°C in the body and 48°C under my truck.
Boulder in the desert
en route
03/12/2009
Cape Range National Park & Ningaloo Marine Park
They are located on the North-West Cape Peninsula. Cape Range NP has a rich fauna and flora easily to observe in a rugged landscape of canyons and red sandstone gorges. Ningaloo MP protects 250 kilometres of peninsula coast. Its beaches are favourable for diving & snorkelling.
The following day was also a driving day to reach Exmouth, the gate to Cape Range NP, I stopped there to consult my mailbox before penetrating in the park. At the Visitor Centre I saw my first Emu, variety of Australian ostrich, kneeing in front of the water tap. As all the alive beings birds suffer from heat.
Emu
Exmouth
04/12/2009
From Vlamingh Head Lighthouse the sight on the north-western coast was superb. I continued towards the south to establish the bivouac at Yardie Creek.
North-west coast
Vlamingh Head Lighthouse
04/12/2009
The day of December 05 was composed of several parts. In morning I walked on Yardie Gorge trail which leaves the sea level and goes up gradually on cliff over the river. Landscape were splendid under the morning sun. Alas the trail ended quickly with a panel of prohibition to disturb the Rock Wallabies shy and easily disturbed.
Yardie Creek
Cape Range NP
05/12/2009
Yardie Creek
Cape Range NP
05/12/2009
End of trail
Yardie Creek
05/12/2009
On the return I met emus/ostriches, they also are walking. Back to the camp I took a sea bathing. Then I worked at the program of the next days.
Emu/ostrich
Yardie Creek
05/12/2009
At the end of the afternoon a rock wallaby came to visit me while I worked at the update of my website. As previously it looked at, with caution, the body ladder which it could not climb up not knowing to walk, it jumps.
Rock wallaby
Yardie Creek
05/12/2009
Shy
Yardie Creek
05/12/2009
On Sunday morning December 06, I decided to change camping into going up towards north. On the move I visited Oyster Stacks, an accumulation of oysters on rocks and coral sea-beds. The site is a “sanctuary zone”.
Oyster Stacks
Cape Range NP
06/12/2009
A few kilometres away Turquoise Bay offers its limpid water to the many tears of sunbathing in this sunny but windy Sunday.
Turquoise Bay
Cape Range NP
06/12/2009
I continued to find a campsite, alas campsites were all in the full sun. I returned to Yardie Creek with its small but welcomed pine forest where I remained still two days. On Tuesday morning I drove again to Exmouth to publish the weekly page of my website.
