Geraldton to Perth

Pinnacle Desert

ENGLISH:
After spending almost an entire day in Geraldton’s shopping centres we headed out east to see the Wildflower Country.

One of 22 wind turbines at Mumbida Wind Farm. The rotor is 100m in diameter and the tips travel at 280km/h. I get dizzy just looking at it. 

Note Tassie on the left end of the blade. Weight is just under 9000kg (the blade, not Tassie). 

Coalseam National Park is supposed to be one of the best places for wildflowers, when you come at the right time.

Unfortunately we missed the best part of this seasonal display by a few weeks, but the everlasting flowers were still impressive.

Near Lake Indoon is a cave that was well worth the 8km stretch of boggy sand and sharp rocks, because the best wildflower display was along this track.

Female Stumpy Tail Lizard wanted to be our pet for a few days

Bees in gigantic hives welcomed us at the cave’s entrance.

The town's pride and joy: These boots were made walking...through the wildflower fields around Mingenew

Back on the west coast is the Pinnacle Desert, a unique sandy landscape that is dominated by hundreds of pinnacle shaped rocks.

Endless salt plains at Yarra Yarra Lakes

Our next destination from here was Perth, where we visited some fellow travelers who we met on our long journey.

Murals depicting colonial Outback Australia

From here we are heading east to explore those less known wave rocks in the wheat belt region between Perth and Kalgoorlie.

The old Shire Council office in Mingenew

DEUTSCH:
Nachdem wir fast einen ganzen Tag in den Shopping Centres von Geraldton verbracht hatten, ging es weiter in das Land der Wildblumen.

Stockyard Cave near Lake Indoon. Thanks again to Joy & Gil for taking us there in their little 'Moon Buggy'!

Coalseam National Park ist angeblich eine der besten Plaetze fuer Wildblumen, wenn man da zur richtigen Zeit ist.

Cave Men..

Leider waren wir ein paar Wochen zu spaet dran, aber die Everlasting Blumen waren auch beeindruckend.

Big scale farming needs big machines.

 In der Naehe von Lake Indoon gibt es eine Hoehle, die es wert ist den 8km langen Sandpfad zu fahren, denn die besten wilden Blumen hatten wir an diesem abgelenen Pfad gesehen.

Pinnacle Desert near Cervantes.

Unser naechstes Ziel war Perth, wo wir ein paar Reisekumpel besucht hatten, die wir unterwegs kennengelernt hatten.

Where there are flowers there are bees.

Von hier aus geht es nun Richtung Osten, um die weniger bekannten Wave Rocks in der Weizenanbau Region zwischen Perth und Kalgoorlie zu sehen.

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