The landscape on our way down to Shark Bay was very remote
and dry once again. We have not seen a lot of trees for a while now. Just dry
bushes and red dust.
At some point we past a lookout point and from there you
could just see how dry the landscape actually is. There were a whole bunch of
gnomes on the lookout which people had left in remembrance of dear ones who had
passed away.
The first stop we had after taking the turn off to Shark Bay
was ‘The Hamelin Pool Stromatolites’.
These stromatolites are one of the reasons Shark Bay is listed as World Heritage.
Although they look like rocky outcrops, stromatolites are a living organism
dating back to more than 3 billion years ago. The only other place in the world
where they still exist are in the Bahamas.
The next stop was Shell Beach, which as you can guess,
consists completely out of shells. Most of them being tiny white cockle shells.
The pressured layer of shells apparently goes to 9 meters deep and in the old
days blocks of it were cut out to build houses from.
As it was already late in the afternoon we decided to pick
the first camp site we came across being Goulet Bluff. We called the National
Park to book ourselves in. We were the only once there and we found a slightly
sheltered spot behind a dune that was a bit less windy. The sunset was
beautiful.
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