Our first stop after packing up was to drive to a lookout just outside Cervantes. We looked out over the ocean, the town and lots of wildflowers.
We then drove to the Pinnacles., in the N NP. We got a map of the area and parked at the carpark. We could either do a walk through the Pinnacles or drive around (but would have had to take the caravan off and leave it). We decided to do the walk first and see if we still wanted to do the drive after that. When we got out of the car, we decided we needed our beanies (as well as our jumpers). We hadn’t expected to be walking around the Pinnacles with beanies on. We did a quick look thought the interpretive centre and then did the walk. It was pretty amazing to see these formations sticking up out of the ground all over the place. The walk took about 40mins and we got back to the car just as it was about to start raining again. We decided not to do the drive.
We then drove further down the coast towards Lancelin. This town is known for the sand dunes nearby, where people go 4WDing on the dunes or sandboarding. Sam was really keen to try sandboarding. Unfortunately, as has happened a few times on our trip, the weather was going to be against him. Due to the rain, the sandboard wouldn’t have slid very well down the dunes. We drove to see the dunes though, and Michael and the kids went for a walk and run up and down.
The next place to visit on our plan for the day was the Avon Valley. This is an area northeast of Perth city which is around the Avon River and is quite pretty. We had looked up a caravan park at one of the little towns around here – one called Toodyay (pronounced Too Jay). We saw some wildflowers as we drove along. We arrived at Toodyay nearing 5pm, so it was the usual set up, dinner and nighttime routine. Tomorrow we hoped to look around Toodyay and have a bit more of a drive around the Avon Valley before heading into Perth.