From Denmark we rode a 3-day section of the Munda Biddi Trail, which was closed in October 2013 when we did the 3-week ride. Great to be back on the bikes after all that walking!
This turned out to be the last sunny day for over two weeks!
One of the fun sections....
.... and another one. We love those signs. Just bikes on a single-file track!
Another Munda Biddi hut in a stunning patch of forest.
Western Australia has such an amazing coastline with clear blue water, white sand and interesting rock formations. Below the Conspicuous Cliffs in the Walpole-Nornalup National Park.
The Karri forests around Pemberton have been logged for a century. As an early warning system to prevent large forest fires, the tallest trees were manned with smoke-spotters. The trees were climbed via metal stakes spiraling around the trunk. Three of these trees can still be climbed, one of them 70 m tall!
The chicken mesh is supposed to be a safety feature, but does not provide much confidence! I was too scared to go all the way!
WA has some very colourful parrots, a Western Rosella (Platycercus icterotis) below.
The Yeagarup Dunes are a massive land-locked mobile dune system that is moving slowly inland, swallowing the forests and wetlands in its path. Another fun 4WD we couldn't miss!
The white dunes can be seen in the background.
We found this bike park by accident and of course had to try it. We rode the blue and the purple track but never got airborne on the jumps - we're obviously too slow!
Cape Leeuwin is the starting point of the famous "Cape to Cape" Walking Track, which runs for 135 km along the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge. Another thing left on the to-do-list.
The geology between the capes is mostly limestone and there are hundreds of caves. Some of them are open to the public, Lake Cave being one of them. The cave entrance is visible in the bottom left corner of the photograph.
The "floating table" is attached to the ceiling by two stalactites. Note the reflection in the lake!
I loved the many straws, i.e. stalactites in the making.
This is why caving is not for me! Too tight and dark! This trial squeeze wasn't even wet, cold or muddy yet!
Some more amazing Karri forests!
The Canal Rocks are lines of Gneiss battered by the Indian Ocean, forming very unique underwater channels. We would have loved to go for a snorkel but the water temperature was 15 degrees!
A short glimpse of the sun in Busselton. The jetty is almost 2 km long and was used to load timber onto ships.
The next day the sky was back to grey. Imagine how blue the water would be with a bit of sunshine!
These weird "rocks" are thrombolites, an ancient microbial photosynthesizing community.
It's time to head north, the days are getting too short and autumn has definitely set in.
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