Day Two

In the name of keeping good time and avoiding the mid day heat whilst hiking through the gorge, we left the hostel at an ungodly hour of the morning and drove into Kalbari National Park. (Travel sick pills advised; the dirt track roads spare no forgiveness on the vans' suspension). Expect several miles of the following view:

Somehow from the midst of pelting down the road full speed ahead, our tour guide managed to spot, capture, and then handle one of Australia's more aesthetically interesting inhabitants, the 'thorny devil':

If that wasn't enough excitement for 7am, we then hiked into the parks main gorge with the option to abseil on route.

I can assure readers I did not look so happy in the minutes proceeding this picture!

View of the gorge in Kalbari National Park

We followed this up by hiking to the parks most famous spot, aptly named 'Natures Window':

With Kalbari ticked off the list we spent the rest of the day in the van driving up to Monkey Mia.

The Beach at Monkey Mia

We arrived at our beach front hostel there in time for a sunset swim, had a bbq and then, armed with torches, we completed a night walk on the beach, during which we saw baby sharks swimming in the water, a moon rise and the sky at the starriest I have personally ever seen it.