We headed south from Kalbarri, and our first stop was Point Gregory near Pink Lake. As we drove past Pink Lake, it really did look pink in some parts and from some angles. This is due to a certain bacteria being trapped in the salt granules.
We had considered going to visit a place called Hutt River Province, nearby this area. It had been interesting to read about it. It is actually a sheep farm which succeeded from the Australian nation back in 197?. Due to some legal wranglings, this place was now it’s own province with its own stamps and currency, and with the farm owners being king and queen. We ended up deciding not to take the time to go and visit, but it had been interesting to learn about it.
Our next stop then was Northampton, a town with some heritage- listed buildings in it. We had a drive though and took some photos and stopped there to buy some drinks to have with our sandwiches for lunch.
Then it was on to Geraldton, another 50km away. We were planning to o some grocery shopping there and also visit a 2nd hand bookshop which we’d read about in Lonely Planet guide which had shelves of books floor to ceiling. It was probably the largest city we’d visited in quite a while. We found the grocery store and all helped with the shopping and then went and found the book shop. We weren’t disappointed by this shop. It did have lots of books and was quite well organised, compared to other 2nd hand book shops we’d visited. It had quite a good children’s and teen’s section and we found a few good quality books. We were probably there for about 40 mins, but then had to get going, as we still had about 200km to travel to get to Cervantes.
The next main town was Greenough, which was about 50km away. The Lonely Planet guide had said there was also a good 2nd hand bookshop there which had rare and out-of-print books. I would have loved to have stopped there also, but knew that would be pushing the patience of others and it would have made us later to get to our night stop. So we kept driving. We were driving through landscape which made us think of England (I guess the English names of Northampton and Greenough suited). There were also some wildflowers along the way as we drove.
We drove past Jurien Bay and on to Cervantes, arriving about 6.15pm at the van park. I rang to order pizza as we were driving in to Cervantes, and was able to go and pick it up after we had set up. The cold front that was coming through was even colder by now – it was jumper and beanie weather when we arrived at Cervantes. We had pizza for dinner and then it was bedtime routine. We were glad we had a warm caravan in this cold, windy weather.