Rain, road closures and really good places

Some photos to catch up a bit from when I last wrote.  We haven't had much internet access to keep this up to date; oh, and there's too much sightseeing to do too :)

Overlooking one of the beautiful beaches on Bremer Bay, on the
edge of the Fitzgerald River NP

After the heavy rain we couldn't enter the national park we came
here to see.  The main reason they close the roads is because of "dieback",
a fungus which spreads in wet soil and kills off native vegetation.

We were still able to see lots of great countryside around here and
found a great little camping spot near a canola field ... this photo is another morning view through our window.

It's not really the wheatbelt but this area was full of wheat crops as far as the eye could see in every direction.  Ravensthorpe seemed to be the main centre, where the businesses were predominantly machinery/farming related.  It still amazes us that within half an hour (or less) we can be on the beach and seemingly in another world.

Skirting the Fitzgerald River NP we came across a
particular river ...

There's an eastern entrance to the Fitzgeral River national park, so we continued to Hopetoun and were able to get in via the bitumen road.  That was great, as we could access some really lovely beaches.  By this stage we'd all but given up hope of seeing the park so were glad to see what we did.

From Barrens Lookout where we could view the meeting of the
inlet and the ocean.  There were gorgeous wildflowers up here too.

  

We loved West Beach for its fantastic rock formations, the
result of erosion.  There was a lot of sparkling mica in there.

              

There's a huge lake (inlet) where we had lunch with a goanna,
some wildflowers, some sunshine and great views.