From Geraldton to Perth

Finally I stayed in Geraldton more time than it was previously planned, but I felt great in this small city: interesting people, cheap hired windsurf gear , nice place to stay,... so why not enjoying this time and forget for some days about the road.

This is one of the best spots to practice windsurf in Geraldton. This is Coronation beach, a shallow reef protect the beach from the waves, so you have some flat water for beginners and then the big waves from the indian ocean.


This is Nick´s place, where I spent most of the nights in Geraldton; nice views of the ocean and the lighthouse. I stayed there in exchange for some spanish lessons (so a good deal, thanks Nick!).

It was hard but finally I left Geraldton driving south still thinking about wind, waves,... First stop was Cervantes, small town named like a ship sunk in a nearly coastline. This is the base to visit the Pinnacles dessert, amazing rocks nails into the sand.

In Cervantes, all the street names are spanish cities, it was funny to drive though the town and see names like: Leon, Alva (some of them are wrong),... I must admit that made me think about everythings I left at home...

The Pinnacles dessert, monolits with the most variated shapes and beautiful colours at the sunset.

Lancelin is another small town which inhabitants live from the crayfish and the wind. Another spot where windsurfing is high quality: windy, cristaline waters, big waves.

Lancelin Beach, still low season so no people at all except some surfers taking the chance of the offshore wind (no good for the windsurf but ok for surfing).

Perth is the capital of Western Australia, 1.8 milions people. In spite is a spread city, I couldn't feel the typical traffic and stress problems I saw in other big cities. Easy life, nice outdoors and nice people will be my memory of Perth.

King's Park is one of the highlights of the city, the skyline from there are really spectacular. the botanic garden which is in the same park is another "must" to visit, I'll find there most of the trees I saw traveling in the north WA.

In a "gypsy" party with my host in Perth, Patricia, an spanish girl I met in Brisbane some months ago. Yeah! Big cups of...tea!

From Broome to Geraldton (WA)

The Western Australia coast from Broome to Geraldton does some nice spots to take a look at, the funny thing is the distances between them are huge (min. 600 km). So you drive a day, day a half from place to place.

After Broome, first spot was Karijina NP, that is several gorges with plenty of water in the midle of an arid landscape. Herewith some pictures of Karijini.

One of the gorges with the most nice pools.

Some of hte gorge are really narrow so you can go though climbing between the walls. In the picture a trio of brave travelers in the spiderwalk.
Nice gorge ands gorgeus pool. The variety of colours and shapes of the walls is completly diferent to any canyon I've ever been.

In Karijini I met a couple of girls from Belgium (Sandra and Claire) looking for climb the highest mountain fropm the site so we hike Mt. Bruce in a beatiful morning and enjoyed the wildflowers fields of WA.

After Karijini, Day and a half driving to Ningaloo reef. Great place to visit!! It is like the great barrier but you can swim from the beach to the reef (easy!). I saw same wildlife that in Cairns, it is sharks, turtles, rays, hips of diferents fishes,...



On my way to Sharks bay, stopped to take a look to the blowholes, spectacular site with a wild sea.
This is the way to nalu, a surf, windsurf site, only for Pros, King waves are not a joke (some people dies in these places)

Sharks bay was the next stop looking for sea it's famous Monkey Mia spot and it's friendly dolphins.

There are, of course, plenty of sharks from the shy neurvous shark to the dangerous tiger shark. Great to see them from land. In the picture a lemon shark.


I really enjoyed the time with the dolphins, they look at you in a way that reminds some kind of human inteligence... I was really impressed.


Kalbarri NP is a combination of spectacular cliffs with some gorge with semisalt water.

The shape of the rocks arond the canyons allows you to take pictures like that.

HUGE cliffs in the west coast, can you see the car at the top?

Geraldton is the first real city you find when you drive south but it's too a paradise for the lovers of the wind and waves (windsurfing and kitesurfing), so I planned to stay some days but there are gods vibs in this city so I probably stay a bit more, we'll see...

Relaxing sunset after an active day (surfing in the morning, widsurfing in the afternoon) and to finish a " seafood barbie" for dinner made yesterday a good time.