Kalbarri NP

Campground: Galena Bridge Rest Area
Facilities: Toilet, Fire-pits, Picnic Benches.
Good stuff: Spacious rest area with ok toilets. The spot had a nice feel to it in general!
Not so good stuff: Due to its location it is rammed… Although there is a 24 hour time limit, you can tell people have been parked up for a while. Oh and the ground is rock hard if you are trying to pitch a tent!
Price: Free

We took the scenic detour to Kalbarri NP and weren’t disappointed. Amazed by pinker than Pink Lakes (in Murray-Sunset NP) salt lake, however we didn’t manage to pull over anywhere to take a photo of it… We just have an action shot.

You may be able to see a tiny sliver of pink...

Heading into Kalbarri there are loads of stunning scenic lookout spots.  And be warned… There are lots of flies! We had millions swarming around our head, thousands in the car from opening the door. To be honest it wasn’t a pleasant experience but the lookouts were good.

Mustard powder dirt road heading to the Z bend lookout points.

There is a turn off to get the to the Loop and Z bend lookouts at Kalbarri NP. That turn off swiftly becomes a dirt road, if you have a 2WD you may need to take it easy for the corrugations and bumpy spots. Stepping out of the car was a fly-magedon experience… Again. Swarms surrounding our head and wafting them away just didn’t do a thing.

So many flies... 

 But you can be engrossed by the stunning scenery heading towards "Nature's Window".

“Nature’s Window” on the Loop track was cool, however we got more excited over all the ancient ripple marks we saw and the stunning scenery in general. Kyle had never seen anything like it before! At the Z bend lookout you get to see some arthropod trackways and this place rapidly made this our favourite National Park!

And this is why it is our favourite so far...

In some ways the vegetation is rather boring but then you see something like this!

Just a bit of geology...

Arthropod track marks... It would have looked like a giant scorpion! 

Z bend lookout point. You can see a joint parallel to the gorge on the left hand side.