Kalbarri National Park

The national park is nice and close to the town so we spent a few hours discovering. First stop was the most strenuous walk into Z Bend River trail, this drops down into the gorge between high rock walls. Warm and sunny at the top and shaded and cooler down the bottom. A bit of rock scrambling and a few ladders to negotiate.

Wherever we went today we had really annoying bushflies (Latin term..... littleliss bastardiss). This is by far the worst on this trip. Regan wore a head net which helped but they still landed on any exposed skin, especially enjoying the sweat that we produced climbing back out of the gorge.
There were more people at Nature's Window and the new skywalk so the bushflies shared themselves amongst the tourists. The skywalk was opened last year and is two large steel platforms pivoting out over the gorge. A nice cafe there also so iced coffee and iced chocolate required of course.

We decided to check out the last two walks which are about 50km further on from the skywalk. Hawks Head and Ross Graham lookouts. The latter had a megacity of bushflies waiting for a snack.Stopped for a great view of Kalbarri town at Meanarra lookout. Was very windy by then so only the high power flies were around.

Returning to the caravan park the wind had struck so a lot of people retracting awnings and reinforcing their tent ropes. The wind lasted all night so we gave up sitting outside and invited our camp neighbours inside for a drink which turned into dinner and a few wines. Great company from John and Jo.Read more