Fitzgerald River National Park Photos

So here we are, hiking along the southern coast line of Western Australia, in one of the states most(ly) untouched parks. Fitzgerald River National Park. There are trails, but the three of us chose to walk our own path most of the time, and followed the coast line as much as we could. We encounterd plenty of flora and some fauna, but the most amazing thing for me - Dave - was to learn that we walked through plants and past flowers that only exist in this national park, no where else. Now that is a fantastic concept!


The first morning we encountered a fantastic sunrise, and about 10 whales with calfs in the sheltered bays. Ross here is looking out over the ocean where a whale is swimming approximately 50m off shore. As with all photo ops, the whale decided not to smile for the camera.


This is the inlet crossing we had negotiate. Thankfully the weather was unusually warm and going shirtless wasn't such a big deal. We warmed up and dried off in no time, and even stopped later on to try and catch salmon with our treking poles and shoelace fishing line! No sucess sadly.



Matt found this whale bone on a small beach where we stopped for morning tea on the second day. Further along there is a bigger beach called 'whalebone beach', but we couldn't find that whale bone and renamed the beach, rubbish tip beach because of all the plastic and rope that had washed up.


The first evening the sunset was gorgeous. This is Ross and Dave hiking up one of the final sand dunes. Dune walking is really similar to walking in the snow, and sometimes I wished that I had crampons on.


The final inlet crossing, on the second last day. Only 1km from the car, and thankfully this time we didn't have to swim it! Tired and dirty it was a great feeling to cross the Hamersley Inlet and discover that we had walked further than planned for that day!