I was a little worried that we may not get the camper out of it's sandy little camp site by the river (it had sunk a little in the sand over our two day stay) but after a little shoveling to get the tow ball under the hitch the Cruiser made little effort of it.
On our way out of Kalbarri we called into another 2 gorges; Hawks Head and Ross Graham. Both were great but at the latter we were able to hike down into the gorge to the banks of the Murchison River which was still in flood and good to see.
On the road again we rejoined the Great Northern Highway and headed for Shark Bay.
Driving onto the Peron Peninsula we called in and saw the Stromatolites in Hamelin Pool. This was the first we had heard of Stromatolites and the informative boardwalk was quite and education (in case you don't know Stromatolites are rock-like structures built by microbes (single-celled cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae). Hamelin Pool is one of only three places on Earth where you can see living marine Stromatolites). Liz and the kids didn't find this quite so interesting!
A few km's down the road we stopped at Shell Beach... now that's more like it! A beach made completely of shells about 200m wide and up to 10m deep.
Late afternoon we reached our destination of Denham. As we turned onto the foreshore we spotted 2 Dolphin's chasing fish only a couple of metres off the beach. Liz and the kids were out of the car before I could stop. Amazing welcome to this sleepy hollow.
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