Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Camping - June - Yanchep

We recently did a camping trip up to Yanchep (it's less than hour north of Perth).  It was a bit chilly at night but we managed with lots of layers of clothing and blankets.  The days were perfect...

On yet another treasure hunt.... we were trekking to that hill in the background behind Aiden.
 The view from the top of the hill.... by the time we got there we all had multiple scratches and scrapes up our legs from the parrot bush and other spiky plants we waded through.  Oh, I should mention that everyone EXCEPT Megan had scratched legs... she seems to think that Dad is her personal carrier... he is such a pushover and piggybacks her through the scrub, up the hills, over rocks...
 This was pretty cool, I've never seen a beehive in the wild before
 One of our best treasure hunts EVER!  We followed some GPS coordinates to park up at the side of a busy road then trekked through some more hideous bush to find "Dave's Cave".  The photo below is the entrance... down behind Dave there was a little metre by metre hole we crawled through to emerge into a gorgeous cavern complete with stalactites and stalagmites.  Of course, the photos don't come anywhere near to doing it justice so I haven't shown any here.

This is why we love our treasure hunting so much, you discover these unsign-posted locations that are worth all the effort!

 We spent a day 4 wheel driving along the beach tracks between Yanchep and Two Rocks.... so much fun!

Dave letting down the tyres ready for our adventure
 Other 4 wheel drives on the tracks
 Over looking the river mouth at Guilderton.... the most likely location of our next camping trip

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