Pinnacles

We left from sandy beach at a good time this morning.  I had a nice walk along the beach and up to a lookout on the Headland early this morning.  It looked like there were lots of reefs in the bay and it would probably have been good to snorkel, but the wind had picked up again.  It seems to be strong in the mornings.
On my walk I met a Bernese sheep dog named Cooper.  He was five years old and loved a scratch behind the ears.
We packed up, tipped out sand from the shoes, and drove off.  Grant really enjoys leaving the car hooked up to the van overnight, so in the morning he just drives it away.  This was another spot we could have stayed for longer.
Drove to Jurien bay to make some phone calls and post some blogs.  It was a lovely little seaside town.  Very quiet.  They had a few great playgrounds which the kids loved, and a few shops. I signed a petition in the cafe for public toilets in the town.  I figured we would have liked them.  The cafe also had some reading material for patrons, one item of which was a recent Challenge magazine, a Christian newspaper.  It was great to see it there, and was very interesting to read, but I wasn't brave enough to ask the lady at the counter where it came from.
We bought some fish and chips for lunch, and it was very nice.  Our fish tastes have refined somewhat with all the good fish we've been given, but this fish met with Dominic's approval.
A bit further south we turned into the Nambung National Park where we walked through the pinnacles, limestone formations in the sand dunes that no one can explain.  They were a bit eerie, like a ruined city. 
 
 

There were lots of flies at the pinnacles

 
The landscape is changing again, with lots of black boys (that's what I know them as) beside the road.  These are the first I've seen on this trip.
We picked up some strawberries and avocados at roadside stalls, and avoided the peacock on the road, before pulling over at Wilbinga Grove for the night.  This roadside stop looks like it may have been popular with some drinkers at one time, and we avoided the camp site with the mountain of beer bottles and the old car bonnet and muffler. (later we found out the local 4WD club had just cleaned the area up and dumped all the bottles and rubbish in one spot to be collected by the local council!)
It was a lovely place still, with big, solid trees, black boys (hope that name is not politically incorrect), wildflowers, and lots of bushes.

When Nadine and Oskar went to paint outside, a swarm of bees decided their painting water was the place to bee.....and so the painting was put on hold.  In fact being outside at all was forgotten.  We sat around inside and ate our pumpkin and cabbage curry (we're coming to the end of our supplies) and soon were in bed.

Everyone is looking forward to being in Perth tomorrow, and not just because we'll get Katie.  I could do with a shower.  There's only so much a bucket of cold water beside the van can achieve.
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Vicki