After nursing our hangover from the wine tour with copious amounts of orange juice, we left to go have a quick look at sugarloaf rocks before heading to Cape Naturaliste lighthouse. Sugarloaf Rock is apparently one of the most photographed coastal land forms in the region. This is for good reason. We hopped up the few steps to the lookout and were greeted by beautiful crashing waves, unfortunately the weather wasn’t on our side and the photos as pretty dull but believe me, it was beautiful. And obviously James had to climb to the highest point.
We then took the short drive up to Cape Naturaliste, which is another headland off Geographe Bay, and the other end of the Cape to Cape trail. Cape Naturaliste is located in the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park (named after both lighthouses). This lighthouse was activated in 1904 and has been undergoing significant restoration, there was a lovely cafe there and we popped in for a coffee and we were on our way again!
Our next stop was the town of Busselton, where they hold the Western Australia Ironman events (James was definitely very excited about this). We drove straight to the Busselton Jetty which is where the Ironman starts from. The view was spectacular, even more than usual probably as we arrived in the early evening and the sun was beginning to go down. We decided to walk, rather than take the jetty train down the 1.841 kilometre jetty. It is apparently the longest timber jetty in the southern hemisphere. We decided to pay extra to go into the Underwater Observatory at the end of the jetty. You descend 8 meters down some stairs and get to view hundreds of tropical fish, corals and sponges, it was absolutely lovely, however you are only given a 15 minute slot which is a bit disappointing as you could really watch these fish for hours. It was amazing that these fish were not contained at all, but made their home at the end of the jetty.
After the jetty walk we popped to The Goose bistro for a glass of shiraz and a beer, which was perfect to watch the sunset and chat about what an amazing few weeks we had. This was unfortunately the end of our trip as we were soon flying to the Northern Territory for some verge cutting, but that’s a whole other story.
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