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!