Stockyard Gully and beaches

 Stockyard Gully was a great place to visit. The road runs between 2 farms, turns to sand and the last 5km are rough and definitely 4WD only.  Lots of wildflowers.  The outer entrance wall to the cave had large beehives hanging from it.  The cave/tunnel is very wide and open, more a tunnel really.  It’s a very easy walk along the sandy floor and when we turned off the torch was pitch black and silent.  We were the only ones in there.  It’s only about 300m to the other end, where there were more of these unusual beehives.  This tunnel does flood – there’s plenty of debris as evidence - and you wouldn't want to be anywhere near it when that happens!

The cave in Stockyard Gully National Park

Unusual beehives

Back on the coast, Jurien Bay's a nice township.  There's a lot of building going on with new housing estates but it looks a really clean, well planned place with plenty of bushland and of course the ocean. We've been bush camping all the past week so when we found a public hot shower here, that was a priority!  The "bird-baths" we usually have are good, but there's nothing like a hot shower.

On the beach at Jurien Bay

Further along the Indian Ocean Road we explored the little coastal township of Cervantes and were then lucky enough to find a nice camping spot out in the bush, again avoiding having to stay in a caravan park.  It's so lovely when we find places like this (pure luck) as we can have a peaceful night and wake to the sound of the birds, rather than people packing up their vans etc.