Monday, 18 March 2013

Cape Le Grand National Park

Cape Le Grand is just a place like no other. White, white beaches, turquoise waters very large granite boulders that are sometimes the size of mountains and stumpy little tress with the odd emu or kangaroo thrown in and of course the 20 pod of dolphin that swam past us at Lucky Bay. Not sure what it is about the place, its other worldliness, its sheer beauty but every person I saw that day had a massive grin on their face like that they had been introduced to something they could not have believed existed. 

Frenchman's lookout is an extraordinary granite mountain with a hole in it at its peak. The Aboriginal story says this mountain is an eagle (Walich) that took two children that wandered away from camp against the advice of their parents and stole two of the eagles eggs. The walich got angry and picked up the two children and dumped them in the sea, every time they tried to swim back the walich would pick them up and dump the back. The two children are the rocks at the bottom of the mountain



At Lucky Bay we drove onto the beach for a few km and stopped for a picnic, swim and beach cricket. The sand here was whiter than the car.

At Hellfire Bay I taught the kids how to kick each other like a footy.

And here is a picture of a kangaroo having a kip on a bed of seaweed.
I am thinking of doing a Flickr account due to the amount of photo's that we are taking.

4 comments:

  1. just looks soooo beautiful!!!!love skippy,he looks relaxed as!!!

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    1. Sharron, he should be relaxed, I just gave him one of my Emu Exports. Greedy bugger wanted another one. Amanda stopped me.

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  2. Gareth you better put on your bucket list you will not regret it. We are at Denmark now, a bit blustery but weather still fine. Looking forward to a few adventures through national parks and there are apparently a couple of local breweries to see.

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