Don and Christine's 6-month journey around coastal Australia ... and beyond
Vale of cones
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More like a plain than a vale. Hundreds of these cone-shaped termite mounds about a metre high are aligned in irregular rows (aligned to catch maximum sun) near the Ningaloo coast at Exmouth.
These amazing layered sedimentary rocks near Port Arthur look like Inca paving stones, having eroded over millennia into oblong blocks about 40cm high. Australian geology/geography is really interesting and varied.
There were several impressive Monitor lizards (over a metre long) at the Whitsunday National Park - they weren't at all interested in the beach goers fortunately.
... no, not us! These stromatolites/rocky looking fossilised lumps at Shark Bay are the oldest and simplest forms of life on earth, dating back 4 million years.
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