Saturday 24th July 2004 - Day 314/365 - Kalbarri, Western Australia to Denham, Western Australia.
 
Gorges

We spent the morning at the Kalbarri gorge.  I'd actually reckon it's more beautiful than Katherine Gorge.  We abseiled down the Z Bend.  It was only 25 metres, but i haven't abseiled since I was at school.  It was very cool.  It's amazing what a bit of adrenalin can do for your confidence.  If they'd have had a bungy jump, then I'd have done that, although I probably wouldn't have scuba dived. 

We then hiked up to Natures Window for some great photo opps and saw a Thorny devil.  A Thorny Devil is offically the coolest creature in the world.  It may look viscious, but it only eats ants.  If only this chuffing computer could read my camera then, you could see what I was talking about.  You'll have to wait.

We ended the day at Shark Bay, which is World Heritage listed for a number of reasons.  We stopped at Shell Beach, which due to the high salt content means that there is high population of cockles living in these here waters.  Also due to the water there are few predators.  This has created a 115km shell beach which is 10m deep. 

We stayed in the hostel in Denham and spent most of the night in the most westerly pub in Mainland Australia.  Any excuse for a drink.