07 March 2016:-AUSTRALIA :- Perth >>Cervantes, Pinnacles

AUSTRALIA & NZ :- Perth (The Pinnacles Tour)

2nd Day  : 07.03.2016

In order to be picked up by the ADAMS Tour (www.adamspinnacletours.com.au) at 07:00 o’clock, I woke up early in the morning at 06:15 and went downstairs to the breakfast hall of the Hotel. Breakfast is served on the ground floor looking to the Street. Breakfast is well enough and is responding to my tastes: Plain egg, cheese, croissant, boiled mushroom, some fruit, toast bread and cafe.

While drinking my coffee I saw a man walking on the street in front of the hotel. I have got the impression that he is looking for someone to pick up. He passed the hotel. In the following two minutes I saw him again walking the other way round. I went out and asked whether he is looking for me. Yes. I was right. I jumped into the coach waiting at the corner on the William Str.

The bus started to go and collected guests from some other hotels,too. Finally we arrived at the Convention Centre on the Esplanade. This is the place where all the guests are gathered and distributed to the adequate ADAMS Tour busses depending to the place where to go.

I climbed into another bus which was a little bit different then the modern coaches. This one was a 4x4 MAN modified bus. The weather is nice and warm but not hot and the sky is clear. We are approx.14-15 people on the bus. We departed at 08:10.

First we drove to Caversham Wildlife Park in the Swan Valley. It is a ½ hr drive from the Convention Centre and we stopped there. We saw koalas and kangaroos. There was also a wombat which is a native animal.

Kangaroos in the Caversham Wildlife Park, Perth

Wombat and the ranger, Caversham Wildlife Park, Perth.

We spent approx. 45 minutes there and then departed to the fisherman’s village “Cervantes”.

It was 12:00 when we reached to the town. Cervantes is a small village there are a few lobster companies. These are fishing lobster and processing them professionally. We stopped at the company “Lobster Shack” for an informative talk about the lobster industry. We visited the facility and saw every phase of processing clearly while walking on the grid floor construction above the lobster pools. After grading they ship them in big boxes alive to their customers all around the world. We sat there for lunch and I ordered lobster. I enjoyed the grilled lobster very much.

Lobster Shack:- Lobster Industry, Cervantes

Biggest size lobster, Lobster Shack, Cervantes

Lobsters alive; ready to be shipped, Lobster Shack, Cervantes

Lobster ready to eat, Lobster Shack, Cervantes

Indian Ocean from the coast of Cervantes

After the lunch we moved with our bus to the mystical “Pinnacles Desert” in the north of Perth. The Pinnacles is around 260 kms in the north. Our driver was also giving us information about different facts. The Pinnacles is very famous with the earth formation. The soil is sand and there are 2-3 meter high sand stones eroded within time. The landscape was very fascinating.

After a short visit at the Pinnacles Museum we headed to another place close to this site. On the vast sand dunes of the town Lancelin we enjoyed 4 wheel driving with our own vehicle. Our driver has got stuck at one of the sand dunes because of a mistake in changing gear. Then we rescued the vehicle and moved further on the sand dunes.

Our bus driver has stopped at a sand dune and took out several sand boards and we had experienced sand boarding, too.

Joel is on the sand board

Mia is climbing sand dune

Mia, on the sand board

Our bus driver and guide is trying to inflate the tyres

After all, around 17:40 we departed for Perth. It took around two hours to reach to the City Perth. The ADAMS Tour bus dropped everybody at their hotel and it was approx. 19:00. After having a shower in the Hotel I went out for dinner.