Coral Bay, Lake Macleod & Carnarvon

It was a rainy night last night. I heard it this morning on the radio that storm hit the southern part of WA pretty bad. Rain was heavy at times where I was but nothing too severe. Also heard on the news that a 37 year-old Victorian woman fell 60m to her death at Mitchell Falls yesterday. I felt sorry for the woman 🙁 It was also a destination I was going to visit but skipped all that part of WA because meeting up with Greg and a friend, Eamon, in Perth.

I left Exmouth around 7am. While I was driving, I saw a rainbow and quickly pulled over. Took a few photos. Got back into the car and drove again… but couldn’t go very far. I noticed something at the corner of my eye and thought it was some reflection on the car window. I opened the window and there it was….  a rainbow arch with no colour. I named it “Rainbow Albino”. It was the strangest thing to see. I had to get the shot of it and whoala… it came out just how I saw it. Trust me…. wasn’t photoshop effect 🙂

Continued driving and again…pulled over for more rainbows. I love this shot that I took and later Greg told me there’s a legend saying: At the end of the rainbow is a pot of gold. LOL… I am sure that wasn’t a pot of gold… or was it? Nah,..

Finally the sky cleared up a bit so no more rainbow stops and arrived at Coral Bay, my first destination for the day. It’s very tranquil here… white sandy beach and turquoise water. However, I didn’t stay for very long as I had my next stop to go to.

Lake Macleod, saw some images on Google that the lake is pink at certain time. So I wanted to see if I could see it. Well…. the lake was mostly dried or just a shallow bit of water. However, I did find one pool that was what I was looking for. It was pink as I saw on the web.

One of the surprises today for me came after Lake Macleod. I knew it was only just over 10km from where I was to the edge of Australia shore and I saw the sign says “Blowhole”. I had to see what it was. It’s the power of nature alright. A big sign “King Waves Kill” stands at the T-junction. Here you can really feel the power of those waves slamming onto the shore. Honestly, it was brutal.

Among all the battered rock cliffs; there was this stream of water shooting up into the sky every now and then. It was really like a whale blowing water through it’s blowhole. So… that’s the Blowhole

I took many shots of water shooting out of the Blowhole but the one I love the most was this older man tried to see it in close proximity. I love the shot 🙂

It was only about half an hour from here to Carnarvon where I will be spending the night. Did some grocery shopping at Wollies then checked in to a caravan site which I booked last night. Once settled, I did a load laundry and a shower. Now I have clean clothes again 🙂

John @ Carnarvon, W.A.