Having finally left Broome we have made our way south and are currently a few hours south of Perth and a few hours north of Esperance.
Australia is home to some incredible natural landscapes and formations. The most famous is Uluru, a huge sandstone monolith in the centre of the country. However dotted around this vast expanse of mostly empty land there are numerous other sights to see, one of which is called Wave Rock.
Wave rock is a formation that looks from the ground to be a huge wave in the process of breaking. It runs for approximately 400m and is striped with different types of rock and colours making for a pretty cool looking boulder.
You can walk around it or climb it using some stairs at the far end which makes for a cool view. It's not incredibly tall or anything like that but purely the shape it has formed in is what draws interest.
We snuck our dog up since there was no one around and she enjoyed the view too.
Wave rock is in a small section of national park that allows dogs which is unusual for national parks. Due to this there is a lot of stuff we have missed out on, being in the outback means doggy day care or petsitting is hard to come across and the heat means Sassy can't be left in the car alone. We hope to come back one day possibly without her and see all the stuff we missed but I would rather travel with her than without.
Giant climbable tree
Before wave rock we stopped in a section of forest that is home to some reasonably tall trees. One of which some brave workers have turned into a climb. At the top of the tree a large viewing platform has been built and leading up to it is a number of thick lengths of re-bar (re-enforcement steel bars used in concrete for support). These had been drilled or hammered into the tree at regular intervals creating a type of ladder. Above these was another run of re-bar to use as handholds and joining the two was a thin wire mesh.
Lydia didn't really have the footwear to be climbing and I am not a fan of heights so I didn't go very far up. In total it's 65m high or 213 feet. Apparently no one has hurt themselves so far but that honestly surprises me.
It would of been an amazing view at the top and we stayed and watched a few people climb all the way up but didn't want to leave Sassy in the car long alone. The forests around the tree were quite nice and we had a little break and some lunch and let Sassy run around and explore.
We have to be careful here due to widespread baiting for pest species like feral dogs, cats and foxes.
We are heading to a town tomorrow who has some of the most pristine beaches in the world and has sections where the kangaroos happily hang out on the beach amongst the tourists so we're hoping to see them and explore there before we begin the long and relatively boring journey back toward home.
I don't know if I could have gone up that either, don't have too much of an issue with heights or climbing but those rebars are making me hurt so I'm not sure if they're hurting the tree ^_^;
Must go check out Wave Rock at some point, closest I've been is the little replica at the zoo.
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