For The Love of Travel

Yanchep Lagoon is a popular swimming and snorkelling beach boasting calm and crystal clear water, with waves averaging 1 metre. Beautiful azure blue is mesmerising!

King Neptune statue: nowhere else in Australia can claim to have a giant limestone statue of the Roman god of the sea, as the centrepiece of town. But Two Rocks claims it! On a small hill overlooking the ocean, you are greeted by a 10 metre wide-eyed, grinning, bearded face of King Neptune, who’s of course, carrying a big trident. It used to be part of the former Atlantis Marine Park which opened to much fanfare in 1981, but closed just 9 years later, amid its billionaire developer Alan Bond’s financial woes. Neptune has been eroding there ever since….

Sovereign Park Viewing Deck…very disappointing for this local family because of all the seaweed that had blown in….but one of the young ones decided to jump in briefly….

Cervantes’ Lobster Shack, hardly a ‘shack’ today. It can welcome up to 700 guests, priding itself on its ‘pot to plate’ approach. David Thompson began this family dynasty living out of a coastal shack settlement in the 60’s with his 3 sons driving his boat ‘Sea Tips’ and fishing for the finest WA rock lobster. The now third generation implemented a quota management system in 2009, and it’ s one of the most sustainable lobster industries in the world. Delish lobster too!

First off, Buckley’s Breakaway – a short path leads to the rock formation which stands out for its white colour with pink streaks. Only a few metres high, but creates a strong chromatic vision. The white kaoline clay is made up of minerals such as mica while the pink streaks are given by hardfeldspar with sodium, calcium and magnesium. The red laterite crust above the breakaway is instead made up of oxidised iron minerals. Only 300m long but certainly makes a ‘statement’.

Once I discovered it on the map, I absolutely had to drive along the Tin Horse Highway – the little Kulin community of 350 people has done itself proud. Farmers create fabulous tin sculptures for us to appreciate and it encourages visitors to spend some dollars. Good job Kulin!

Gorge Rock is a natural rock pool offering panoramic views of the surrounding countryside around Corrigin. A short walk through bushland brings you to the rock pool.

And there’s the gorgeous dog cemetery, an emotional tribute to our best friend, with over 200 loved ones now buried. Just a few examples of tributes paid…..

The Serpentine River passes through the National Park landscape, giving rise to the Serpentine Falls – a little trickle cascaded down high granite outcrops into a rock-lined pool this arvo! Still, quite pretty.

Rising 15 metres from the ground and more than 110 metres long, the rock looks like a giant surf wave of multicoloured granite about to crash on the bush below. More than 2.7 billion years of wind and rainwater erosion has created this towering formation. Water from the springs running down the lichen covered rock during wetter months dissolve minerals, adding to the colouring of the wave. Amazing perspective from above …..that’s Lake Magic in the background.

I walked to Hippo’s Yawn as well. The ‘yawn’ is a large ‘tafone’, a hollow/cavern in a boulder usually caused by the scouring action of wind and rain. However its thought that in the case of Hippo’s Yawn, it’s more likely that salts from the salt lake just to the north, have crystallised out within the boulder, exerting enough pressure to expand outwards, eventually the outer shell of the rock being breached forming a window.