Cervantes - gateway to the pinnacles

Cervantes is a very small town on the Turquoise Coast about 200km north of Perth. It is the closest town to The Pinnacles but also convenient to Jurien Bay. We had a bike ride at Jurien Bay which has a pretty cool bike path halfway to Cervantes (with plans to extend it all the way)

The Pinnacles are thousands of weathered limestone pillars up to 3m tall, scattered over a sandy desert. We have been here before in 2007 so it was nice to revisit. There have been some improvements with a Discovery Centre (gift shop/ information) and lookout areas.

Cervantes claims to be the lobster capital of the world (several other places also make this claim), and is home to the Lobster Shack. We partook off a lobster meal ( well, snack - hot lobster roll, and small lobster tacos - pretty expensive at around $30 each meal)

There is a large weather vane at the entrance to the town with a sailing ship, Don Quixote and his side kick. What has this got to do with Cervantes? Well, the town was named after the sailing ship Cervantes that was wrecked off the coast and in turn, the ship was named after Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote. I found this interesting.Read more