20150905 WA Windy Habour to Pt D`Entrecasteaux

20150905  We drove past Northcliff and into D`Entrecasteaux National Park onto Windy Harbour which stretches along the Southern Ocean shore for 130 kilometres.  Point D`Entrecasteaux was named in 1792 when a French Admiral Bruni D`Entrecasteaux who sailed past on an expedition; the park takes its name from that point, he could have picked an easier name I can’t even pronounce that.

Check out the amazing forest of Kerri trees as we drive through the D`Entrecasteaux National Park on our way to Windy Harbour.

A remote part of the world which is home to many small but quant fishing shacks which are secluded to the extent that there is no shops or electricity.  There is no visitors accommodation so unless you no one of the shacks owners, I guess you need to leave.

That would be me perched on the rocks at Windy Harbour, now that’s an appropriate name as it is bloody windy.

Man I wish we had wild flowers like this at home, they are so pretty.

Again another pretty beach which I can't swim in because it is too bloody cold.

 We are now at Point D`Entrecasteaux where Des sits in the van because it is too windy the sook or maybe he thinks I might accidently push him off the cliff, I wouldn’t do that Des.

 The 116 686 ha park has long white sandy beaches, rugged limestone and basalt cliffs that need to be seen to beleave, just beautiful.

This part of the track was closed due to fire damaging the viewing ramp but I snuck down to check it out and this is what I found, pretty cool I thought.

A huge fire got out of control and had broken containment lines in Western Australia's national parks last year and this was the fire as seen from the air.  

  The fire caused much devastation to surrounding parks but it's amazing how nature bounces back as seen on these trees that are sprouting new shoots.

We drove down from the point and decided to camp in the park at the information point, surely no one will care way out here, to bad we're staying.