Fremantle Area

Do we think our camping set up is good for what we need/could afford?.... Yes

However, sometimes do you get a tiny bit fed up packing up a damp tent and covered in mud in the process?... Maybe a little

When we arrived in Fremantle and stayed at Kyle’s university friends, Becky and Ian. The first night of getting into a bed at bed height, feeling your skin of soft clean sheets on a very comfortable mattress- just amazing we cannot thank them enough. Also their dog Stan, was constant entertainment with his green ‘laser’ eyes. He is not a mutant, Stan is an awesome chocolate Labrador puppy.

Thrombolites (the mosaic version of stromatolites) at Lake Clifton.

For a closer view, they are pretty cool and the world habitable for likes of us (making oxygen).

Fremantle is a nice place to wander, have a few beers and chill. To be fair that is all what we did there and loved it. There are a fair few quirky independent shops with everything you need to be a trendy hipster but dotted in between are some funky shops. The marina was nice and it was next to it an awesome skate park. A few museums around too- this place has it covered!

Fremantle's answer to the brachiosauris (view from the War Memorial)

From there, York was our next point of call just under 2 hours from Fremantle. York, like its predecessor, is a historic town and apparently the first inland town in WA. A nice place with some good tie ins to ‘proper’ York as Liz likes to say. To be fair it would have been good to stay longer but we wanted to fit in a few places in before heading to our campspot… One being our final brewery before Broome…

A bit of a change from a UK historic town.

And this just had to be done...

Looks like they have flooding here too!

Our plan was to stay at Moore’s River Rest Area, driving closer towards the camping spot, a massive plume of smoke was getting bigger and closer. We soon realized that it was not a safe spot to camp, bush fire on the left of the road, camp spot on the right and you do not mess around with bush fires. That made it a LOOOOOOOOONG day. A snowstorm of moths hit the windscreen while driving at night but there were some amazing scenery along the way. The best drive we have had in a long time and definitely a come back to area.

The plume of smoke we were driving towards...

Lets get the hell out of here!

Albeit long we got to see the Pinnacles... A very busy place and there are a few ideas of how they formed but no one really knows.