Kalbarri

Friday 28th - Monday 31st August 

The landscape on this drive from Denham to Kalbarri has been so diverse. It's like the plants of the area know that spring is in the air and have come out to play with such variety and colour.

    There were fields of colour and then further down the road it was back to the typical Australiana natives.

Some parts felt like we were driving up the east coast with taller trees and then cultivated fields, then that would disappear as quickly as it came.

    This type of landscape view has been non existent till now.

   The road to Kalbarri lined with massive wattle trees.

Kalbarri is a picturesque seaside town located 590 kms north of Perth, midway along Australia's Coral Coast. To date,this is my pick of the places we have been to on the WA coast. It is very diverse with inland river gorges with rock formations as old as 400 million years. It is the towering ocean cliffs plummeting to the wild surf below that grabs my vote. 

    Wild untouched coastline and the colour of this WA water is gorgeous.

You can ride your bike along the cliff tops looking down at the rugged surf below. A drive down the coast for as little as 12kms gives you the most spectacular experience, if you are into the untouched ruggedness of our amazing wild coast.

     A view from one of the many stops along the bike ride. I was in heaven!!

Kalbarri is located at the mouth of the Murchison River and is an ideal playground for the avid fisherman as well. From our caravan park, located right in town, you can watch the churning waters of the junction of ocean and river.

     The ocean to the left and the river on the right. This doesn't show just how tumultuous the water is here.

   Looking south.

     The township of Kalbarri looking over the river.

Well, I normally would not even think of going to the place that we visited on our bike ride but I loved it. It was called the Rainbow Jungle, the home of every type of parrot on the planet, that's right it was full of birds - the parrot variety. It has the largest parrot free fight avairy in the country where birds live and fly past you at great speeds like they are playing with you. 

    Munching away on his food in the open aviary.

   This little parrot let me take heaps of pics of her and just kept looking at me, she was free to fly anywhere in the avairy but didn't.

Around every corner there are parrots in all colours of the rainbow, such as the colourful and mischievous blue and gold South American Macaw.

   They were very cute putting on a show.

As usual I took heaps of pics. I was trying to work out how to make a collage of them to save having to put up individual pics but alas no luck. If anyone has the clues how to do this on the iPad could you let me know.

    Some of the more colourful characters.

    These two are a gorgeous couple and how unbelievable are their colours.

As you wander through the centre you amble along paved brick pathways, through landscaped tropical gardens, past waterfalls, fountains and lily ponds.

    Heaps of very different finches that love the environment.

A must visit if you are in Kalbarri.

On leaving Kalbarri we experienced an unusual event, rain, for the first time in our 9 weeks away. Not heavy and not for long but all the same rain.

     Looking back at the township of Kalbarri and the wet weather moving in.

Before I leave Kalbarri I have to subject you to just one more sunset shot.

Kalbarri is a must visit, with a township that has good restaurants, the local pub that is involved in the community and all you need for a laid back life in a coastal town.

Next heading south away from the warmth.