Wow! What a great ride it is going to be! Next year we will have a seven day cycling trip from Broome to Exmouth, then another 7 day trip from Exmouth to Perth. I have been exploring this section extensively since last year and well before that.
Having now arrived in Perth after having driven through this amazing country again I am excited about what is to come. The Pilbra is an area so far from any large towns that it is largely unexplored. When you get off the highway on well maintained dirt roads the scenery is spectacular. Long ragged ranges with pronounced crisp white gums standing tall amongst the dark red rock. The landscape looks like a dot painting, speckled with spinifix clumps, dispersed amongst them are shrubs and bushes, some flowering in bright colours like the cookwood.
The country isn’t flat and monotonous like it often is along the highway, it is undulating providing great views and a carpet of red rocks and sand as if the sun is always setting.
The ranges of Karajini National Park are bigger still, the abandoned mining town of Wittenoom has an eerie feel, the waters within the magnificent steep gorges is blue as if they have flown from a glacier and cold enough to believe it too.
Further west is the warm coral filled waters of Ningaloo Reef, a coastal landscape of dunes and domed termite mounds. Then further south before Perth is the quaint seaside town of Kalbarri, where great riding and long gorge walks are plentiful. Now its time for a brief repose, a fresh clean and set up before another trip across the Great Victorian Desert to Uluru.
Having now arrived in Perth after having driven through this amazing country again I am excited about what is to come. The Pilbra is an area so far from any large towns that it is largely unexplored. When you get off the highway on well maintained dirt roads the scenery is spectacular. Long ragged ranges with pronounced crisp white gums standing tall amongst the dark red rock. The landscape looks like a dot painting, speckled with spinifix clumps, dispersed amongst them are shrubs and bushes, some flowering in bright colours like the cookwood.
The country isn’t flat and monotonous like it often is along the highway, it is undulating providing great views and a carpet of red rocks and sand as if the sun is always setting.
The ranges of Karajini National Park are bigger still, the abandoned mining town of Wittenoom has an eerie feel, the waters within the magnificent steep gorges is blue as if they have flown from a glacier and cold enough to believe it too.
Further west is the warm coral filled waters of Ningaloo Reef, a coastal landscape of dunes and domed termite mounds. Then further south before Perth is the quaint seaside town of Kalbarri, where great riding and long gorge walks are plentiful. Now its time for a brief repose, a fresh clean and set up before another trip across the Great Victorian Desert to Uluru.
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