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Nullaki walk Denmark

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The Nullaki is the lower peninsula of the Wilson inlet near Denmark, a large section of it is now privately owned but there’s still access for people to come and explore and walk a section of the Bibbulman walk trail where it follows the southern end of the inlet.

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Boat harbour

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Boat harbour is about 30 kilometres west of Denmark, the small road off the main highway is easy to drive for the first five kilometres or so but then the track becomes four wheel drive only for the final half of the track. If you like visiting places that are out of the way and not part of the normal tourist route, then the trip is well worth it. Continue Reading

Macro plants around Denmark

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Plants can be both beautiful and also kind of ugly, but there’s some beauty in even the most ugly ones if you look closely enough. This was an experiment in macro plant photography around Denmark including some great carnivorous plants. Continue Reading

Two peoples bay

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Two peoples nature reserve is about 35km east of Albany, it’s all bitumen roads to get there and you can easily spend the whole day here. There are numerous walks to do and there’s a visitor centre which is only open during the summer months. Continue Reading

Celebration of new reading glasses

DSC_0966 (Large)Yep, finally time for me to buy proper reading glasses, cheap supermarket ones just weren’t cutting it any more. The same day I picked up my new reading glasses I had also collected a couple of litres of shell grit earlier from Parry beach. That night I sat down with a few bowls, put on some music and picked through the shell grit looking for whole shells and this was the result. Continue Reading

Parry’s beach and Point Hillier

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Point Hillier is a huge headland about 20kms west of Denmark, the headland is an obvious landmark from many of the local beaches in the area. The east side of Point Hillier consists of Hillier Bay and Parry’s beach a sometimes windy, sometimes strewn with piles of seaweed, beautiful beach. There’s four wheel drive access to the beach and you can then drive all the way around to Mazoletti beach and William bay so long as Parry inlet has it’s sand bar closed.

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More around Walpole

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The next stop was to climb Mount Frankland, the mountain is the crowning glory of the southwest forest corner and you can see for many miles from the summit. The climb to the granite capped summit is a good walk, it’s only about 600m from the car park to the top, but it’s also  about 200-300m upwards. Continue Reading

In and around Walpole Part 2

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I headed to Mandelay beach just west of Walpole. In 1911 a ship was wrecked here and the survivors were left on the beach for many days. This area was very remote back in those days and it was pure chance that one of the crew members set out and managed to find a settler not too far away. Continue Reading

In and around Walpole part 1

After the treetop walk I visited Walpole calling in at the visitor centre before doing a few different walks and drives in the area. First walk was directly behind the visitor centre, a 2km walk around over a swamp and then through some forest.  Continue Reading